Integrating software into PRA

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 457-467

  Li, Bin ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Ghose, S ^a   Smidts, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TAXONOMIES;

PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES; RISK OF FAILURE; SUBMODELS; SYSTEMATIC INTEGRATION; THREE-LEVEL;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 84954418972     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2003.1251066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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