Replacement times and costs in a degrading system with several types of failure: The case of phase-type holding times

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1193-1209

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degrading system; Optimization; Phase type distribution; Repair; Replacement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY; REPAIR; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DEGRADING SYSTEMS; PHASE-TYPE DISTRIBUTION; REPLACEMENT; STATIONARY PROBABILITY VECTORS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748431110     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.06.027     Document Type: Article

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