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Reliability Measures of Semi-Markov Systems with General State Space

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The aim of this paper is to present a systematic modeling of reliability and related measures: availability, maintainability, failure rate, rate of occurrence of failures, mean times, etc., known in the literature under the term dependability. This model includes the continuous and discrete time semi-Markov processes with general state space. This is one of the most general models in reliability theory since it includes as particular cases the Markov and renewal processes.

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Limnios, N. Reliability Measures of Semi-Markov Systems with General State Space. Methodol Comput Appl Probab 14, 895–917 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-011-9211-5

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