Systemability function to optimisation reliability in random environment

International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 397-417

  Persona, Alessandro ^a   Sgarbossa, Fabio ^a   Pham, Hoang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic machine reliability; Field environments; Motorcycle reliability; Operational environments; Random environments; Reliability; Systemability; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955187002     PISSN: 17575850     EISSN: 17575869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMOR.2009.024292     Document Type: Article

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