The distribution of time to recovery of enterprise IT services

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 858-867

  Franke, Ulrik ^a   Holm, Hannes ^a   König, Johan ^b  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Enterprise IT services; incident logs; log normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914106837     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2014.2336051     Document Type: Article

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