Modeling the evolution of system reliability performance under alternative environments

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 761-772

  Hawkes, Alan G ^a   Cui, Lirong ^b   Zheng, Zhihua ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

alternative environment; availability; markov chain; Markov regime switching model; System performance

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENVIRONMENT; FINITE-STATE; MACHINE WORKING; MARKOV CHAIN; NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; REGIME SWITCHING MODEL; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TRANSITION RATES; TWO-REGIME;

AVAILABILITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 80052849404     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2010.551758     Document Type: Article

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