Reliability prediction and assessment of fielded software based on multiple change-point models

Proceedings - 11th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 379-386

  Huang, Chin Yu ^a   Lin, Chu Ti ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY THEORY;

DEBUGGING; NON-HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESSES (NHPP); SOFTWARE FAILURE DATA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33847286543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2005.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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