Empirical-Bayesian availability indices of safety and time critical software systems with corrective maintenance

Proceedings - 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 84-91

  Sahinoglu, Mehmet ^a   Chow, Edward ^b  

^a TSUM   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Corrective maintenance; Empirical Bayesian; Mle; Safety; Time critical

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AVAILABILITY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN; ENGINEERING JUDGMENTS; FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY; TIME-CRITICAL;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84958096934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.1999.816216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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