Radyban: A tool for reliability analysis of dynamic fault trees through conversion into dynamic Bayesian networks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 922-932

  Montani, S ^a   Portinale, L ^a   Bobbio, A ^a   Codetta Raiteri, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORK; MODULAR ALGORITHMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 39749155904     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.013     Document Type: Article

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