Reliable Fault Diagnosis with Few Tests

Combinatorics Probability and Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 323-333

  Pelc, Andrzej ^a   Upfal, Eli ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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EID: 0032271701     PISSN: 09635483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963548398003563     Document Type: Article

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