A table-oriented interface for reliability modeling of fault-tolerant architectures

The Table-Oriented Translator to the ASSIST Language (TOTAL) computer program, a spreadsheet interface for a reliability analysis tool set under development at NASA Langley, is described. This program is designed to capture the failure characteristics of a fault-tolerant architecture and to automatically generate a corresponding reliability model. The level of information required is appropriate for system designers with little or no background in the details of reliability calculations. The system description process and model generation algorithms are presented.<
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