Importance measures-based prioritization for improving the performance of multi-state systems: application to the railway industry

Enrico Zio, Marco Marella and Luca Podofillini

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2007, vol. 92, issue 10, 1303-1314

Abstract: The railway industry is undertaking significant efforts in the application of reliability-based and risk-informed approaches for rationalizing operation costs and safety requirements. In this respect, importance measures can bring valuable information for identifying the actions to take for most effective system improvement.

Keywords: Multi-state systems; Importance measures; Risk-informed optimization; Monte Carlo (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.07.010

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