Cost constrained reliability maximization of software systems

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 195-200

  Gokhale, Swapna S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary Algorithm; Software architecture; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; APPLICATION RELIABILITIES; ARCHITECTURE-BASED; EXHAUSTIVE ENUMERATION; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCIES; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY TRADEOFFS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; ALGORITHMS; APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; MAINTAINABILITY; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 2342453066     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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