Approximate estimation of system reliability via fault trees

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-172

  Dutuit, Y ^a   Rauzy, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Binary decision diagrams; Fault tree; System reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ESTIMATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; FAULT TREE; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 5444238517     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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