N-version design versus one good version

IEEE Software

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 71-76

  Hatton, Les ^a,b,c,d  

^a Oakwood Computing ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Programming Research Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Oakwood Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

PARALLEL CHANNELS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031273155     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/52.636672     Document Type: Review

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