On the use of computational geometry to detect software faults at runtime

Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC '10 and Co-located Workshops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-118

  Stehle, Edward ^a   Lynch, Kevin ^a   Shevertalov, Maxim ^a   Rorres, Chris ^a   Mancoridis, Spiros ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomic; computational geometry; fault tolerance

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC; CHI-SQUARED; CONVEX HULL; DISTANCE-BASED; HYPERRECTANGLES; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; RUN-TIME MEASUREMENT; RUNTIMES; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE FAULT; SUPPORTING TOOL; SYSTEM FAILURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENCLOSURES; FAULT DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 77954739016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1809049.1809069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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