FAMOCUTN & CUTQN: Programs for Fast Analysis of Large Fault Trees with Replicated & Negated Gates

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 368-376

  Hennings, Wilfried ^a   Kuznetsov, Nickolaj ^b  

^a KFA Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Biocybernetics   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithm; Fault tree; minimal cutset; module; noncoherence; replicated gate; truncation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; LOGIC GATES; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MINIMAL CUTSETS; MULTILEVEL FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; NEGATED GATES; REPLICATED GATES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE CUTQN; SOFTWARE PACKAGE FAMOCUTN;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029379220     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.406566     Document Type: Article

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