Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1989

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M.

Abstract

One of the important problems which software engineers face is how to determine which software reliability model should be used for a particular system. Some recent attempts to compare different models used complementary graphical and analytical techniques. These techniques require an excessive amount of time for plotting the data and running the analyses, and they are still rather subjective as to which model is best. So another technique needs to be found that is simpler and yet yields a less subjective measure of goodness of fit. The Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) is proposed as a new approach for selecting the best model. The performance of AIC is measured by Monte-Carlo simulation and by comparison to published data sets. The AIC chooses the correct model 95% of the time.

Extent

107 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.

Identifier

FADT14561

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