Risk of extreme events in the configuration of priority systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 265-271

  Pinto, C Ariel ^a   Lambert, James H ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

E business capacity planning; Extreme events; Priority systems; Reliability engineering; Risk management; System configuration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SERVERS;

PRIORITY SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036604169     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00018-2     Document Type: Article

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