Reliability and availability analysis of complex port transportation systems

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-99

  Kołowrocki', Krzysztof ^a,b   Soszyńska, Joanna ^a  

^a GDYNIA MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b Polish Safety and Reliability Association   (Poland)

Author keywords

Availability; Complex systems; Large systems; Reliability; Semi Markov process

Indexed keywords

LARGE SYSTEMS; SEMI-MARKOV PROCESS;

AVAILABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 32644453944     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.749     Document Type: Article

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