Markov repairable systems with history-dependent up and down states

Stochastic Models

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 665-681

  Cui, Lirong ^a   Li, Haijun ^b   Li, Jinlin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Down time; History dependent state; Markov repairable system; Multi state maintenance model; Reliability; Up time

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STATE SPACE METHODS;

DOWN TIME; HISTORY-DEPENDENT STATE; MARKOV REPAIRABLE SYSTEM;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 35748969297     PISSN: 15326349     EISSN: 15324214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326340701645983     Document Type: Article

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