Optimal replacement policy for multi-state system under imperfect maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 483-495

  Liu, Yu ^a   Huang, Hong Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Imperfect maintenance; maintenance policy; multi state systems; non homogeneous continuous time Markov model; quasi renewal process; universal generating function

Indexed keywords

IMPERFECT MAINTENANCE; MAINTENANCE POLICY; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; QUASI-RENEWAL PROCESS; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROFITABILITY; REPAIR; SATELLITES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956344080     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2010.2051242     Document Type: Article

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