Automatic misconfiguration troubleshooting with peerpressure

OSDI 2004 - 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 245-257

  Wang, Helen J ^a   Platt, John C ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Zhang, Ruyun ^a   Wang, Yi Min ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC MISCONFIGURATION TROUBLESHOOTING; EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN; MANUAL IDENTIFICATION; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; TECHNICAL SUPPORT; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP; TROUBLESHOOTING SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 85077048913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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