An efficient stiffness-insensitive method for transient analysis of markov availability models

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 426-428

  Malhotra, Manish ^a,b  

^a AT and T   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Markov model; Stiffness; Transient analysis

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STIFFNESS; VECTORS;

ERROR TOLERANCE; HYBRID APPROACH; MARKOV AVAILABILITY MODELS; MATRIX VECTOR MULTIPLICATION; NUMERICAL TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; STATE PROBABILITY VECTOR; TRAPEZOIDAL RULE AND BACKWARD DIFFERENCE FORMULA; UNIFORMIZATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 0030247141     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.537012     Document Type: Article

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