Reliability analysis of multi-state phased-mission systems

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 151-156

  Shrestha, Akhilesh ^a   Xing, Liudong ^a   Dai, Yuanshun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision diagram; Markov chain; Multi state phased mission system; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BINARY STATE; COMPONENT FAILURES; COMPONENT STATE; DECISION DIAGRAM; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; EXISTING METHOD; FAILURE CRITERIA; GRID SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MARKOV MODEL; MISSION SYSTEMS; MULTI STATE; MULTI-STATE PHASED MISSION SYSTEM; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; MULTI-VALUED DECISION DIAGRAMS; OVERLAPPING PHASIS; STATE EXPLOSION PROBLEMS; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEM STRUCTURES;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; MAINTAINABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349134337     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2009.4914667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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