Combining high level symptom descriptions and low level state information for configuration fault diagnosis

LISA 2004 - 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 151-157

  Lao, Ni ^a   Wen, Ji Rong ^b   Ma, Wei Ying ^b   Wang, Yi Min ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC FAULT DIAGNOSIS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; PRODUCT SUPPORT; STATE INFORMATION; SYSTEM FAULTS; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; SYSTEM STATE; WINDOWS REGISTRY;

FAULT DETECTION;

EID: 85094812553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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