A standby system with two repair persons under arbitrary life- and repair times

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 756-767

  Bieth, Bruno ^a   Hong, Liang ^b   Sarkar, Jyotirmoy ^c  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold standby; Extended semi Markov processes; Limiting availability; Limiting profit per unit time; Repairable system

Indexed keywords

LIMITING AVAILABILITY; PER UNIT; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; SEMI MARKOV PROCESS; STAND-BY SYSTEMS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; PROFITABILITY;

REPAIR;

EID: 74149091835     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcm.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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