Quantitative fault tree analysis using Binary Decision Diagrams

Journal Europeen des Systemes Automatises

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1051-1071

  Sinnamon, Roselyn M ^a   Andrews, John D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fault trees; Quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000314447     PISSN: 12696935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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