Reliability and cost optimization in distributed computing systems

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1103-1119

  Hsieh, Chung Chi ^a   Hsieh, Yi Che ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed computing system; Hardware redundancy; System reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

COST OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER;

COMPUTER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0037410939     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(02)00058-8     Document Type: Article

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