Reliability Modeling using Sharpe

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-36, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 186-193

  Sahner, Robin A ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a Gould CSD ^*  (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial model; Hierarchical model; Markov model; Reliability modeling

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT - CONTROL; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - MULTIPROCESSING; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

COMBINATORIAL MODEL; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; MARKOV MODELS; SHARPE COMPUTER PROGRAM;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0023364830     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1987.5222336     Document Type: Article

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