Decision theoretic troubleshooting of coherent systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-62

  Langseth, Helge ^a,b   Jensen, Finn V ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Fault diagnosis; Repair strategies; Vesely and Fussell component importance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

COHERENT SYSTEMS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 0037399988     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(02)00202-8     Document Type: Article

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