A two-unit general parallel system with (n - 2) cold standbys-Analytic and simulation approach

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1016-1032

  Papageorgiou, Effie ^a   Kokolakis, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cold standbys; Correlated lifetimes; General distributions; Redundancy; Rejection method; Reliability; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COLD STANDBYS; CORRELATED LIFETIMES; GENERAL DISTRIBUTIONS; REJECTION METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33749542575     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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