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Failure

Known as: List of product failures, Failing, Major flops 
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure… (More)
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Reliability engineering

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Failure
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Software bug
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems
With the increasing functionality and complexity of distributed systems, resource failures are inevitable. While numerous models… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics
Building reliable storage systems becomes increasingly challenging as the complexity of modern storage systems continues to grow… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Using Software Dependencies and Churn Metrics to Predict Field Failures: An Empirical Case Study
Commercial software development is a complex task that requires a thorough understanding of the architecture of the software… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
A Large-Scale Study of Failures in High-Performance Computing Systems
Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Characterization of failures in an IP backbone
We analyze IS-IS routing updates from sprint's IP network to characterize failures that affect IP connectivity. Failures are… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Quantitative Analysis of Faults and Failures in a Complex Software System
The dearth of published empirical data on major industrial systems has been one of the reasons that software engineering has… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
An asynchronous model of locality , failure , and process
We present a model of distributed computation which is based on a fragment of the-calculus relying on asynchronous communication… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
EVENODD: An Efficient Scheme for Tolerating Double Disk Failures in RAID Architectures
We present a novel method, that we call EVEN ODD, for tolerating up to two disk failures in RAID architectures. EVEN ODD employs… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Estimating the Probability of Failure When Testing Reveals No Failures
AbstructIn this paper we introduce formulae for estimating the probability of failure when testing reveals no errors. These… (More)
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Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Human Problem Solving : the State of the Theory in 1970
W HEN the magician pulls the rabbit from the hat, the spectator can respond either with mystification or with curiosity. He can… (More)
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