A multiple warm standby system with operational and repair times following phase-type distributions

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 178-188

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Level dependent quasi birth and death process (LDQBD); Markov process; Rate of occurrence of failures (Rocof); Redundant system; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

LEVEL-DEPENDENT QUASI-BIRTH-AND-DEATH (LQBD) PROCESS; MULTIPLE WARM STANDBY SYSTEMS; RATE OF OCCURRENCES OF FAILURES (ROCOF); REDUNDANT SYSTEMS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 25144476663     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.05.015     Document Type: Article

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