An intrinsic order criterion to evaluate large, complex fault trees

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-305

  González, Luis ^a   García, Diego ^a   Galván, Blas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

FAULT TREE EVALUATION; INTRINSIC ORDER CRITERION; LEXICOGRAPHIC ORDER; PROBABILITY BOUNDS;

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS;

EID: 4544358673     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.833307     Document Type: Article

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