Identifying optimal components in a reliability system

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 163-170

  Freixas, Josep ^a   Pons, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birnbaum's measure of reliability importance; Important components; Pre ordering relation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BIRNBAUM MEASURE; PRE-ORDERING RELATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 41449114468     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.916888     Document Type: Article

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