A generic method for estimating system reliability using Bayesian networks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 542-550

  Doguc, Ozge ^a   Ramirez Marquez, Jose Emmanuel ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Reliability analysis; Reliability methods; Reliability modeling; System reliability

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; BUILDINGS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ACCURATE; AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTIONS; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EFFICIENT; GENERIC METHODS; HEURISTIC; HISTORICAL DATUM; HOLISTIC METHODS; HUMAN EXPERTS; HUMAN INTERVENTIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; RELIABILITY ESTIMATIONS; RELIABILITY METHODS; RELIABILITY MODELING; SEARCHING; STOCHASTIC EVENTS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; SYSTEM RELIABILITIES; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TIME CONSUMING;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 54049153147     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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