An importance sampling based approach for reliability analysis

Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE CASE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 956-961

  Li, Fan ^a   Wu, Teresa ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); MOST PROBABLE POINT (MPP);

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PROBABILITY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 44449146101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2007.4341815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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