Measures of component importance for Markov chain imbeddable reliability structures

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 613-639

  Chadjiconstantinidis, Stathis ^a   Koutras, Markos V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE; MARKOV CHAIN IMBEDDABLE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY STRUCTURES;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 0033354219     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199909)46:6<613::AID-NAV2>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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