Computing System Reliability Given Interval-Valued Characteristics of the Components

Reliable Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-34

  Utkin, Lev V ^a   Kozine, Igor O ^b  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; INTERVAL-VALUED RELIABILITY; NON-REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; RLIABILITY ASSESSMENT;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 17444402101     PISSN: 13853139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11155-005-5940-x     Document Type: Article

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