Availability of enterprise it systems: An expert-based bayesian framework

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 369-394

  Franke, Ulrik ^a   Johnson, Pontus ^a   König, Johan ^a   Marcks von Würtemberg, Liv ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Downtime; Expert elicitation; High availability; Noisy or; Systems availability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860493993     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-011-9141-z     Document Type: Article

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