A Survey on Monte Carlo Estimation of Small Failure Risks in Dynamic Reliability

AEU-Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstechnik

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-211

  Labeau, Pierre Etienne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Probabilistic dynamics; Probabilistic safety analysis; System reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FAILURE PROBABILITY; PROBABILISTIC DYNAMICS; PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ANALYSIS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0031678195     PISSN: 00011096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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