Differential, criticality and Birnbaum importance measures: An application to basic event, groups and SSCs in event trees and binary decision diagrams

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1458-1467

  Borgonovo, E ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binary decision diagrams; Event trees; Importance measures; Probabilistic risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EVENT TREES; IMPORTANCE MEASURES; PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250219644     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.09.023     Document Type: Article

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