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This chapter presents multi-state availability modeling in practice. We use three analytic modeling techniques; (1) continuous time Markov chains, (2) stochastic reward nets, and (3) multi-state fault trees. Two case studies are presented to show the usage of these modeling techniques: a simple system with two boards and the processors subsystem of the VAXcluster. The three modeling techniques are compared in terms of the solution accuracy and the solution time.
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Trivedi, K.S., Kim, D.S., Yin, X. (2012). Multi-State Availability Modeling in Practice. In: Lisnianski, A., Frenkel, I. (eds) Recent Advances in System Reliability. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2207-4_12
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