7 Failure correlation in software reliability models

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-48

  Goseva Popstojanova, Katerina ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure correlation; Markov renewal process; Sequence of dependent software runs; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE CORRELATION; MARKOV RENEWAL PROCESS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0034155447     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.855535     Document Type: Article

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