In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures [6]. Seventeen years later, Inter...
David L. Oppenheimer, Archana Ganapathi, David A. ...
The demand for more computational power in science and engineering has spurred the design and deployment of ever-growing cluster systems. Even though the individual components use...
Software systems increasingly integrate Off-The-Shelf (OTS) components. However, due to the lack of knowledge about the reused OTS components, this integration is fragile and can ...
Safety cases embody arguments that demonstrate how safety properties of a system are upheld. Such cases implicitly document the barriers that must exist between hazards and vulnera...
Shamus P. Smith, Michael D. Harrison, Bastiaan A. ...
This paper reports on a theoretical Bayesian modeling development for residual life prediction in the context of condition-based maintenance. At each monitoring point during a comp...