Optimum maintenance policy with inspection by semi-Markov decision processes

2007 39th North American Power Symposium, NAPS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 541-546

  Ge, Haifeng ^b   Tomasevicz, Curtis L ^a,b   Asgarpoor, Sohrab ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipment availability; Inspection; Maintenance; Semi Markov decision processes; Semi Markov processes

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION; MAINTENANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CIRCUIT BREAKERS; EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY; INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE POLICIES; OPTIMAL INSPECTION; OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE; SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; SEMI-MARKOV PROCESSES;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 50249086426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2007.4402363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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