Comparing Criticality of Nodes Via Minimal Cut (Path) Sets For Coherent Systems

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 79-87

  Meng, Fan Chin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIRNBAUM-RELIABILITY IMPORTANCES; COHERENT SYSTEM; OPTIMAL ASSIGNMENT;

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION);

EID: 0008560934     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: 14698951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964800003211     Document Type: Article

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