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HICSS
1999
IEEE
72views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1999»
14 years 1 months ago
Software Reliability as a Function of User Execution Patterns
Assessing the reliability of a software system has always been an elusive target. A program may work very well for a number of years and this same program may suddenly become quit...
John C. Munson, Sebastian G. Elbaum
DISCEX
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Towards a Rigorous Definition of Information System Survivability
The computer systems that provide the information underpinnings for critical infrastructure applications, both military and civilian, are essential to the operation of those appli...
John C. Knight, Elisabeth A. Strunk, Kevin J. Sull...
ICSE
2003
IEEE-ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A Dependable Architecture for COTS-Based Software Systems Using Protective Wrappers
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components are built to be used as black boxes that cannot be modified. The specific context in which these COTS components are employed is...
Paulo Asterio de Castro Guerra, Cecília M. ...
CONCUR
2009
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On Convergence of Concurrent Systems under Regular Interactions
Convergence is often the key liveness property for distributed systems that interact with physical processes. Techniques for proving convergence (asymptotic stability) have been ex...
Pavithra Prabhakar, Sayan Mitra, Mahesh Viswanatha...
ICC
2008
IEEE
125views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Real-Time, Byzantine-Tolerant Information Dissemination in Unreliable and Untrustworthy Distributed Systems
—In unreliable and untrustworthy systems, information dissemination may suffer network failures and attacks from Byzantine nodes which are controlled by traitors or adversaries, ...
Kai Han, Guanhong Pei, Binoy Ravindran, E. Douglas...