A Bayesian belief network for reliability assessment

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

Volumn 2187, Issue , 2001, Pages 35-45

  Gran, Bjørn Axel ^a   Helminen, Atte ^b  

^a OECD HALDEN REACTOR PROJECT   (Norway)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEMS; REACTOR PROJECTS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY ESTIMATION; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SOFTWARE SAFETY; SOFTWARE-BASED DIGITAL SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 54049128264     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45416-0_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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