A multiple system governed by a quasi-birth-and-death process

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-196

  Pérez Ocón, Rafael ^a   Montoro Cazorla, Delia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Availability; Phase type distribution; Quasi birth and death process; Rate of occurrence of failures; Reliability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; REPAIR;

PHASE-TYPE DISTRIBUTIONS; QUASI-BIRTH-AND-DEATH PROCESS; RATE OF OCCURRENCE OF FAILURES;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 2142656391     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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