A modeling approach to analyze the impact of error propagation on reliability of component-based systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4608 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 140-156

  Cortellessa, Vittorio ^a   Grassi, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Component based systems; Reliability; State based model

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS; STATE-BASED MODEL;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 38149117042     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73551-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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