Effective fault treatment for improving the dependability of COTS and legacy-based applications

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 223-237

  Bondavalli, Andrea ^a   Chiaradonna, Silvano ^b   Cotroneo, Domenico ^c   Romano, Luigi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis and treatment; Fault injection; Legacy systems and COTS components; Modeling and evaluation; Performability

Indexed keywords

COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EVALUATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COTS COMPONENTS; FAULT DIAGNOSIS; FAULT INJECTION; FAULT TREATMENT; PERFORMABILITY;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 14644404940     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2004.40     Document Type: Article

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