Optimum maintenance policy with Markov processes

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 76, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 452-456

  Chan, G K ^a   Asgarpoor, S ^b  

^a Lincoln Electric System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Deterioration; Markov decision processes; Markov processes; Optimal policy; Preventive maintenance; Random failure

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DETERIORATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY;

MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; OPTIMAL POLICY; RANDOM FAILURE;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 33244471313     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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