Reliability analysis of hierarchical computer-based systems subject to common-cause failures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 351-359

  Xing, Liudong ^a   Meshkat, Leila ^b   Donohue, Susan K ^c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Dynamic fault trees; Hierarchical systems; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

COMMON-CAUSE FAILURES (CCF); DYNAMIC FAULT TREES; EFFICIENT DECOMPOSITION AND AGGREGATION (EDA); RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750358729     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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