Software reliability assessment and optimal version-upgrade problem for open source software

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1333-1338

  Tamura, Yoshinobu ^a   Yamada, Shigeru ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; VERSION-UPGRADE PROBLEM; VERSION-UPGRADE TIME;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 40949117627     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2007.4413582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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