Flowgraph models in reliability and finite automata

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 355-359

  Csenki, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bypass and state elimination algorithm; Finite automata; Flowgraphs; Kleene's theorem; Regular expressions; Semi Markov models

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; KETONES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MICROFLUIDICS; PAPER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

(E ,2E) THEORY; (SEMI)AUTOMATA; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION (C.F.); COFACTOR; DIRECT MANIPULATION; DIRECTED GRAPHS; GRAPH REPRESENTATIONS; MOMENT GENERATING FUNCTION (MGF); PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION; PROBABILITY OF TRANSITION; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; RELIABILITY MODELING; SEMI MARKOV; TIME TO FIRST FAILURE; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TRANSITION GRAPHS; WAITING TIMES; WAITING-TIME; WAITING-TIME DISTRIBUTIONS;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 45549094150     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.920865     Document Type: Article

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