Design of reliable systems using static & dynamic fault trees

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 234-244

  Ren, Yansoiig ^a   Dugan, Joanne Bechta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b MC 228   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary decision diagram (bdd); Dynamic fault tree; Fault tree; Genetic algorithm; Markov model; Static fault tree

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032157653     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.740491     Document Type: Article

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