Optimization of series-parallel multi-state systems under maintenance policies

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1620-1626

  Nourelfath, Mustapha ^a   Ait Kadi, Daoud ^a  

^a INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Maintenance cost; Maintenance personnel optimization; Markov processes; Multi state systems; Series parallel; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE COSTS; MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL OPTIMIZATION; MULTI-STATE SYSTEMS; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 34547115467     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.09.016     Document Type: Article

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