Reliabilities of consecutive-k systems /

Since its start in 1980 the study of the consecutive-k system has resulted in the accumulation of hundreds of research papers. Its popularity is due to its close ties with many mathematical topics such that the system has become a prototype of how mathematical analysis can help in the study of syste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, Gerard J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cui, Lirong, 1960-, Hwang, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2000]
Series:Network theory and applications ; v. 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Computation of Reliability
  • 3. Design of Optimal Consecutive Systems
  • 4. The Lifetime Distribution
  • 5. Asymptotic Analysis
  • 6. Window Systems
  • 7. The Network Model
  • 8. Consecutive-2 Graphs
  • 9. Some Related Systems
  • 10. Applications.