Sensitivity and importance analysis of Markov models using perturbation analysis: Applications in reliability studies

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2006, ESREL 2006 - Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1769-1775

  Van Do, P ^a   Khalouli, S ^a   Barros, A ^a   Berenguer C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT IMPORTANCES; DISCRETE EVENTS; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS MODELS; ESTIMATION METHODS; EVENT TREES; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; MARKOV MODELS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; PERTURBATION ANALYSES; RELIABILITY MODELS; SEVERAL MEASURES; SHARED RESOURCES; STATIC SYSTEMS; STEADY STATES;

RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

COMPONENT IMPORTANCE; DISCRETE EVENTS; ESTIMATION METHODS; EVENT TREES; FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCY; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; MARKOV MODEL; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY MODEL; SHARED RESOURCES; STATIC SYSTEMS; STEADY STATE;

EID: 56149117513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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