A bayesian model for predicting reliability of software systems at the architectural level

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

Volumn 4880 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 108-126

  Roshandel, Roshanak ^a   Medvidovic, Nenad ^b   Golubchik, Leana ^b,c  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic bayesian networks; Reliability; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN MODELLING; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; QUALITY OF SOFTWARES; RELIABILITY MODELING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STANDARD MODELS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 49949086326     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77619-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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