Empirical estimates of software availability of deployed systems

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 222-231

  Mockus, Audris ^a  

^a AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Reliability

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EMPIRICALLY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34247381152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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