Optimal Reliability of Systems Subject to Imperfect Fault-Coverage

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 275-284

  Amari, Suprasad V ^a   Dugan, Joanne Bechta ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Common cause failure; Fault tolerant system; Imperfect fault coverage; Optimization; System reliability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013021977     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.799899     Document Type: Article

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