Multistate-node acyclic networks reliability evaluation based on MC

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 225-231

  Yeh, Wei Chang ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Minimal cut; Multistate node acyclic network; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

RELIABILITY EVALUATION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0038337001     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00116-9     Document Type: Article

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