Optimal diagnosis of heterogeneous systems with random faults

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 298-304

  Pelc, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Random fault; Test

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER TESTING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

DIAGNOSIS ALGORITHMS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032025299     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.660165     Document Type: Article

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