Reliability evaluation for acyclic consecutively connected networks with multistate elements

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-143

  Levitin, Gregory ^a  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consecutively connected network; Multistate system; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

CONSECUTIVELY CONNECTED NETWORKS; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0035425944     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(01)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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