Importance analysis with Markov chains

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 89-95

  Fricks, Ricardo M ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Importance measures; Markov chains; Markov reward modeling; Parametric sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; MAINTAINABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

IMPORTANCE MEASURES; MARKOV REWARD MODELING; PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0037261651     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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