Fine-Grained Shock Models to Rejuvenate Software Systems

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2165-2171

  Fujio, Hiroki ^a   Okamura, Hiroyuki ^b   Dohi, Tadashi ^b  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Availability; High assurance systems design; Rejuvenation; Shock models; Software aging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SOFTWARE AGING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0242494306     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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