Measures of component importance in reliability theory

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 455-463

  Boland, Philip J ^a   El Neweihi, Emad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

BINARY COHERENT SYSTEMS; COMPONENT IMPORTANCE; COST CONSTRAINT;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0029287661     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0548(94)00053-B     Document Type: Article

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