Why PCs are fragile and what we can do about it: A study of windows registry problems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 561-566

  Ganapathi, Archana ^a   Wang, Yi Min ^b   Lao, Ni ^b   Wen, Ji Rong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DATA SETS; FAULT INJECTION APPROACH; REGISTRY PROBLEMS; RULE CHECKS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544280267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dsn.2004.1311926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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