Reliability analysis of a two-unit general parallel system with (n - 2) warm standbys

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 821-827

  Papageorgiou, Effie ^a   Kokolakis, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

General distributions; Recursive probabilistic analysis; Redundancy; Reliability; Warm standbys

Indexed keywords

GENERAL DISTRIBUTIONS; OPERATIONAL MODES; PARALLEL SYSTEM; RECURSIVE PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; WARM STANDBYS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; REDUNDANCY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349453779     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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