Analysis of repairable consecutive-2-out-of-n : F systems with Markov dependence

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 799-809

  Lam, Yeh ^a   Zhang, Yuan Lin ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MARKOV DEPENDENCE;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032672601     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002077299291921     Document Type: Article

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