Survivability of series-parallel systems with multilevel protection

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-54

  Korczak, Edward ^a   Levitin, Gregory ^b   Haim, Hanoch Ben ^b  

^a TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Multi state system; Multilevel protection; Survivability; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTECTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

MULTI-STATE SYSTEMS; MULTILEVEL PROTECTION; SURVIVABILITY; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 20144382380     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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