A novel bicriteria scheduling heuristics providing a guaranteed global system failure rate

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-254

  Girault, Alain ^a   Kalla, Hamoudi ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATNA   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Bicriteria optimization; Pareto optima; Reliability; Reliability block diagrams; Safety critical systems; Static multiprocessor scheduling

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RELIABILITY; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; MULTI PROCESSOR SCHEDULING; PARETO OPTIMA; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 70450275855     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2008.50     Document Type: Article

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