An increasing number of mission-critical, embedded, telecommunications, and financial distributed systems are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such a...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...
Availability requirements for database systems are more stringent than ever before with the widespread use of databases as the foundation for ebusiness. This paper highlights Fast...
Tirthankar Lahiri, Amit Ganesh, Ron Weiss, Ashok J...
Software reliability is defined as the probability of failure-free software operation for a specified period of time in a specified environment. Over the past 30 years, many softw...
Chin-Yu Huang, Chu-Ti Lin, Sy-Yen Kuo, Michael R. ...
A proactive handling of faults requires that the risk of upcoming failures is continuously assessed. One of the promising approaches is online failure prediction, which means that...
This paper reports work to support dependability arguments about the future reliability of a product before there is direct empirical evidence. We develop a method for estimating ...