Optimum maintenance policy using semi-Markov decision processes

Electric Power Systems Research

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1286-1291

  Tomasevicz, Curtis L ^a   Asgarpoor, Sohrab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipment availability; Maintenance; Power system maintenance; Semi Markov decision process; Semi Markov process

Indexed keywords

MAINTENANCE POLICY; MATLAB- SOFTWARE; POWER EQUIPMENT; POWER SYSTEM MAINTENANCE; SEMI-MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; SEMI-MARKOV PROCESS; WORKING STATE;

DETERIORATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EQUIPMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MAINTAINABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATLAB; POWER TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 67349100539     PISSN: 03787796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsr.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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