On modular decompositions of system signatures

Jean-Luc Marichal, Pierre Mathonet and Fabio Spizzichino

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2015, vol. 134, issue C, 19-32

Abstract: Considering a semicoherent system made up of n components having i.i.d. continuous lifetimes, Samaniego defined its structural signature as the n-tuple whose kth coordinate is the probability that the kth component failure causes the system to fail. This n-tuple, which depends only on the structure of the system and not on the distribution of the component lifetimes, is a very useful tool in the theoretical analysis of coherent systems.

Keywords: System signature; Tail signature; Semicoherent system; Modular decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2014.10.002

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