Software rejuvenation policies for cluster systems under varying workload

Proceedings - IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 122-129

  Xie, Wei ^a   Hong, Yiguang ^b   Trivedi, Kishor S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC LOSSES; MARKOV MODELS; SOFTWARE FAULTS; STEADY-STATE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2642530232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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