Automatic fault detection and diagnosis in complex software systems by information-theoretic monitoring

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 285-294

  Jiang, Miao ^a   Munawar, Mohammad A ^a   Reidemeister, Thomas ^a   Ward, Paul A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fault detection and diagnosis; Information theory; Self managing systems; Statistical techniques

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC FAULT DETECTION; COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS ALGORITHMS; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; FALSE POSITIVE; FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; JACCARD COEFFICIENTS; NORMALIZED MUTUAL INFORMATION; SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM STRUCTURES; WILCOXON RANK-SUM TESTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 70450080948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2009.5270324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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