Advances in mathematical modeling for reliability.

9781586038656

Advances in mathematical modeling for reliability.

Ed. by Tim Bedford et al.

IOS Press

2008

237 pages

$84.00

Paperback

TA169

Drawn from those presented at a conference held at the U. of Strathclyde in 2007, these 26 papers reflect the diversity of this field, with offerings from mathematicians, probability experts, statisticians and computer scientists. Contributors address graphical modeling and Bayesian networks (including the reliability of Bayesian networks, Bayesian belief nets, and evaluation through propositional directed acyclic graphs) repairable systems modeling (properties of incomplete repair and maintenance models, sensitivity analysis of a reliability system using Gaussian processes), computing risk, mixture failure rate modeling (the reverse hazard rate and mean inactivity time of mixtures, signature (coherent systems, systems with non-interchangeable components), relations between aging and stochastic dependence, theoretical advances in modeling inference and computation, and recent advances in recurrent event modeling and inference (recurrent event modeling and analysis, sensitivity aspects in dynamic reliability, renewal theory with discounting, and point estimation of the transition intensities for a Markov multi-state system).

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