Performance evaluation of decreasing multi-state consecutive-k-out-of-n: G systems

International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 345-358

  Zuo, Ming J ^a   Fang, Zhide ^b   Huang, Jinsheng ^c   Xu, Xiaojian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bounds; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; VECTORS;

MULTISTATE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STATE DISTRIBUTION;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0242273402     PISSN: 02185393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218539303001184     Document Type: Article

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