Software reliability estimation under uncertainty: Generalization of the method of moments

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 209-218

  Goševa Popstojanova, Katerina ^a   Kamavaram, Sunil ^a  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA DISTRIBUTION; COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY MOMENTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 2942613281     PISSN: 15302059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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