Selective maintenance decision-making over extended planning horizons

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 462-469

  Maillart, Lisa M ^a   Cassady, C Richard ^b   Rainwater, Chase ^c   Schneider, Kellie ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Maintenance optimization; Markov decision process; Preventive maintenance; Selective maintenance

Indexed keywords

INFINITE HORIZONS; MAINTENANCE ACTION; MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; MISSION RELIABILITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL SUBSETS; PLANNING HORIZONS; SELECTIVE MAINTENANCE; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAM;

DECISION MAKING; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 70349229191     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2009.2026689     Document Type: Article

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