Reliability and sensitivity analysis of imperfect coverage multi-state systems

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shrestha, Akhilesh ^a   Xing, Liudong ^b   Amari, Suprasad V ^c  

^a ARCON CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c Parametric Technology Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Imperfect fault coverage; Multi state multi valued decision diagram; Multi state system; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL METHODOLOGY; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; ENTIRE SYSTEM; IMPERFECT COVERAGE; IMPERFECT FAULT COVERAGES; IMPORTANCE ANALYSIS; MULTI STATE; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; MULTI-VALUED DECISION DIAGRAMS; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; RECOVERY MECHANISMS; RELIABILITY AND SENSITIVITY;

BINARY DECISION DIAGRAMS; DECISION THEORY; MAINTAINABILITY; METAL RECOVERY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; VERY LONG INSTRUCTION WORD ARCHITECTURE;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952773074     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2010.5448066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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