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CORR
2006
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
Exact Failure Frequency Calculations for Extended Systems
This paper shows how the steady-state availability and failure frequency can be calculated in a single pass for very large systems, when the availability is expressed as a product...
Annie Druault-Vicard, Christian Tanguy
CORR
2006
Springer
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14 years 10 months ago
Cross-Entropy method: convergence issues for extended implementation
The cross-entropy method (CE) developed by R. Rubinstein is an elegant practical principle for simulating rare events. The method approximates the probability of the rare event by...
Frédéric Dambreville
KBSE
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Random Test Run Length and Effectiveness
Abstract—A poorly understood but important factor in random testing is the selection of a maximum length for test runs. Given a limited time for testing, it is seldom clear wheth...
James H. Andrews, Alex Groce, Melissa Weston, Ru-G...
VOTEID
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Simulation-Based Analysis of E2E Voting Systems
Abstract. End-to-end auditable voting systems are expected to guarantee very interesting, and often sophisticated security properties, including correctness, privacy, fairness, rec...
Olivier de Marneffe, Olivier Pereira, Jean-Jacques...
FASE
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Checking Memory Safety with Blast
Abstract. Blast is an automatic verification tool for checking temporal safety properties of C programs. Given a C program and a temporal safety property, Blast statically proves ...
Dirk Beyer, Thomas A. Henzinger, Ranjit Jhala, Rup...