Models and customer-centric system performance measures using fuzzy reliability

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 819-825

  Li, Zhaojun ^a   Kapur, Kailash C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy reliability; Fuzzy sets; Multi state reliability; Substitute characteristics

Indexed keywords

BINARY STATE; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER-CENTRIC; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLE; FUZZY RELIABILITY; MULTI-STATE RELIABILITY; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; SUBSTITUTE CHARACTERISTICS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES; THEORY AND METHODS;

CONDITION MONITORING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; CYBERNETICS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM VARIABLES; SALES;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78751498788     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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