Reliability of grid service systems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 130-147

  Dai, Y S ^a   Xie, M ^b   Poh, K L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Graphic theory; Grid service; Network modeling; Quality of Service (QoS); Reliability model

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RELIABILITY THEORY;

GRID SERVICE; NETWORK MODELING; RELIABILITY MODEL; REMOTE ACCESSING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744519202     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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