New index of component importance

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 75-79

  Hwang, F K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; RELIABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

BIRNBAUM THEORY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0035277309     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6377(01)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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