Structure importance of consecutive-k-out-of-n systems

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-107

  Lin, Fen Hui ^a   Kuo, Way ^b   Hwang, Frank ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FIBONACCI SEQUENCES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032683555     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6377(99)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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