STRIDER: A Black-box, state-based approach to change and configuration management and support

17th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference, LISA 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 159-171

  Wang, Yi Min ^a   Verbowski, Chad ^a   Dunagan, John ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Wang, Helen J ^a   Yuan, Chun ^a   Zhang, Zheng ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BLACK BOX APPROACH; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; HIGH LEVEL DESCRIPTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; STATE BASED APPROACHES; STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77952114571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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