The influence of the node criticality relation on some measures of component importance

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 557-560

  Freixas, Josep ^a   Pons, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complete semicoherent systems; Node criticality relation; Reliability importance measures; Structural importance measures

Indexed keywords

CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY;

COMPLETE SEMICOHERENT SYSTEMS; COMPONENT IMPORTANCE; K-OUT-OF-N; NODE CRITICALITY RELATION; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE MEASURES; STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE MEASURES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 50249123519     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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