Evaluation and assessment of reliability and availability software for securing an uninterrupted energy supply

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-146

  Sikos, László ^a   Klemeš, Jiří ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Availability; RAM; Reliability; Software package

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMMERCE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BALANCED ASSESSMENT; COMPETITIVE MARKETS; ENERGY GENERATIONS; EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; RELIABILITY , AVAILABILITY AND MAINTAINABILITIES; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY; RESULTS VISUALIZATION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 77953362505     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-009-0243-2     Document Type: Article

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