Towards a conceptual framework of software run reliability modeling

Information sciences

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 137-163

  Cai, Kai Yuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY; DISCRETE TIME SOFTWARE MODELING; SOFTWARE OPERATIONAL PROFILE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY MODELING; SOFTWARE RUN; SOFTWARE TESTING INTENSITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 0034227072     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(00)00018-9     Document Type: Article

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