Analysis for joint importance of components in a coherent system

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 282-299

  Gao, Xueli ^a   Cui, Lirong ^a   Li, Jinlin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional reliability importance; Joint failure importance; Joint reliability importance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RELIABILITY THEORY;

COHERENT SYSTEM; CONDITIONAL RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; JOINT FAILURE IMPORTANCE (JFI); JOINT RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE (JRI);

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34147173773     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.07.022     Document Type: Article

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