In many reliability studies based on data, reliability engineers face incompleteness and incoherency problems in the data. Probabilistic tools badly handle these kinds of problems...
We present a novel approach for the implementation of efficient and dependable web service engines (WSEs). A WSE instance represents a single node in a distributed network of par...
Web Services offer great promise for integrating and automating software applications within and between enterprises over the Internet. However, ensuring that Web Services are dep...
Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Wenbing Zhao
A hybrid Bayesian Network (BN) is one that incorporates both discrete and continuous nodes. In our extensive applications of BNs for system dependability assessment the models are...
Martin Neil, Manesh Tailor, Norman E. Fenton, Davi...
Elections are increasingly dependent on computers and telecommunication systems. Such “E-voting” schemes create socio-technical systems (combinations of technology and human o...
Jeremy Bryans, Bev Littlewood, Peter Y. A. Ryan, L...