Title :
Component-relevancy and characterization results in multistate systems
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Stat. Sci., Acad. Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
fDate :
9/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Two new versions of component relevancy for multistate structure functions are introduced. They are compared with some existing component-relevance conditions and their general properties are investigated. Based on the two relevance conditions, two component-importance measures for multistate systems are defined; they are most appropriate for comparing components when a certain type of system improvement is considered. Series and parallel structures are characterized within the L-superadditive and L-subadditive structure functions by imposing the two new relevance conditions
Keywords :
probability; reliability theory; L-subadditive structure functions; L-superadditive structure functions; component relevancy; component-importance measures; multistate structure functions; multistate systems; parallel structures; reliability; series structures; Reliability theory; State-space methods; Stochastic processes;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
