Software-reliability modeling: The case for deterministic behavior

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-119

  Dick, Scott ^a   Bethel, Cindy L ^b   Kandel, Abraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos theory; Fractal sets; Soft computing; Software quality; Software reliability; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FRACTAL SETS; SOFT COMPUTING; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845745343     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2006.886364     Document Type: Article

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