Fault-Tree Analysis: A Knowledge-Engineering Approach

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 37-45

  Geymayr, Jose Antonio Bogarin ^a   Ebecken, Nelson Francisco Favilla ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Expert system; Fault tree; Fuzzy set; Knowledge engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AVAILABILITY; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MAINTAINABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RELIABILITY;

APPROXIMATE REASONING; BLACKBOARD ARCHITECTURE; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029271839     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.376519     Document Type: Article

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