Towards a unified approach to the representation of, and reasoning with, Probabilistic Risk information about software and its system interface

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 391-402

  Feather, Martin S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit tradeoffs; Failure Modes; FMEA; FMECA; FTA; PRA; Probabilistic Risk Reduction; Risk informed decision making; SFMECA

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT TRADEOFFS; FAILURE MODES; FMEA; FMECA; FTA; PROBABILISTIC RISK DEDUCTION; RISK PREVENTION; RISK-INFORMED DECISION MAKING; SFMECA;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 16244392439     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2004.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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