Performance utility-analysis of multi-state systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-21

  Wu, Shaomin ^a   Chan, Ling Yau ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Multi state systems; State importance; Utility importance

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; VECTORS;

MULTI-STATE SYSTEMS;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0037333693     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2002.805783     Document Type: Article

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