Component Importance for Continuum Structure Functions with Underlying Binary Structures

Title & Authors
Component Importance for Continuum Structure Functions with Underlying Binary Structures
Lee, Seung-Min; Sim, Song-Yong;

Abstract
A continuum structure function (CSF) is a non-decreasing mapping from the unit hypercube to the unit interval. A B-type CSF, defined in the text, is a CSF whose behaviour is modeled by its underlying binary structures. As the measure of importance of a system component for a B-type CSF, the structural and reliability importance of a component at a system level $\small{{\alpha}}$(0 < $\small{{\alpha}}$ < 1) are defined and their properties are deduced.
Keywords
Continuum structures;reliability importance;structural importance;
Language
English
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Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods, 2009. vol.16. 6, pp.937-943
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