Software reliability with architectural uncertainties

IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fiondella, Lance ^a   Gokhale, Swapna S ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; LIFE CYCLE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

ARCHITECTURAL PARAMETERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 51049096809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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