Networked Windows NT system field failure data analysis

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 178-185

  Xu, Jun ^a   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ^a   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERRORS; MAINTENANCE;

ERROR DEPENDENCY; ERROR PROPAGATION; FAILURE BEHAVIORS; FIELD FAILURE DATA; LOGGING TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT-BASED; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; SYSTEM SOFTWARES;

WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

EID: 84958782417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.1999.816227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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