Recovery from failures due to Mandelbugs in IT systems

Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 224-233

  Trivedi, Kishor S ^a   Mansharamani, Rajesh ^b   Kim, Dong Seong ^a   Grottke, Michael ^c   Nambiar, Manoj ^d  

^a USA   (United States)

^b Software Performance Group   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

availability; Mandelbugs; mean time to recovery; sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; IT SYSTEM; MANDELBUGS; MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY; RECOVERY PROCESS; RUNNING-IN; SOFTWARE BUG;

AVAILABILITY; FLOWCHARTING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; RECOVERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84863270092     PISSN: 15410110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2011.34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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