The reliability importance of components and prime implicants in coherent and non-coherent systems including total-order interactions

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 485-495

  Borgonovo, E ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Importance measures; Joint reliability importance; Multilinear functions; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BIRNBAUM; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; COMPONENT RELIABILITY; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; JOINT RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; MULTILINEAR FUNCTIONS; NON-COHERENT; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; PRIME IMPLICANTS; RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; SIMULTANEOUS UTILIZATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TAYLOR EXPANSIONS; TOTAL ORDER; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

COMPLEXATION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 75149195178     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.10.021     Document Type: Article

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