Cost benefit analysis of series systems with warm standby components and general repair time

Mathematical Methods of Operations Research

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 329-343

  Wang, Kuo Hsiung ^a   Liu, Yi Chun ^a   Pearn, Wen Lea ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Availability; Cost benefit; General repair times; Recursive method; Series system; Supplementary variable

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; REPAIR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GENERAL REPAIR TIMES; RECURSIVE METHOD; SERIES SYSTEM; SUPPLEMENTARY VARIABLE;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 18844363696     PISSN: 14322994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001860400385     Document Type: Article

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