Quantifying the variance in application reliability

Proceedings - IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 113-121

  Gokhale, Swapna S ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Software architecture; Software reliability; Variance

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE TIME MARKOV CHAINS (DTMC); SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 2642569289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2004.1276562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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