Interval-based uncertainty handling in model-based prediction of system quality

Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, SIMUL 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-108

  Omerovic, Aida ^a,b   Stølen, Ketil ^a,b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Architecture design; Modeling; Prediction; System quality; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; MODELING; PREDICTION; SYSTEM QUALITY; UNCERTAINTY;

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649417899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIMUL.2010.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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