Transient analysis of acyclic markov chains

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 175-194

  Maire, Raymond A ^a   Reibman, Andrew L ^b   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulated Reward; Acyclic Markov Chain; Markov Chain; Markov Reward Process; Mean Time to Failure; Performability Analysis; Reliability Analysis; Reliability Modeling; Sensitivity Analysis; Transient Analysis

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS - TRANSIENTS;

CUMULATIVE MEASURES; LARGE MARKOV MODEL; MARKOV CHAINS; MARKOV REWARD PROCESS; PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0023400561     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-5316(87)90039-3     Document Type: Article

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