Software diversity: Practical statistics for its measurement and exploitation

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 707-717

  Partridge, D ^a   Krzanowski, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity measures; Inductive programming; Multiversion systems; Neural computing; Software diversity; Voting strategies

Indexed keywords

LOGIC PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDUCTIVE PROGRAMMING; MULTIVERSION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DIVERSITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0031244715     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0950-5849(97)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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