Some elementary ideas concerning the complexity of system structure

Shuang Li and James Lynch

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2010, vol. 57, issue 7, 626-633

Abstract: A system of iid Bernoulli components is the starting point in the statistical theory of reliability. This simplification allows for the development of a rich, though elementary, theory for the structure of the system. Two representations play a prominent role in the study of structural reliability. One is the minimal path set representation and the other is the signature representation. By combining the two representations with the Gibbs measure for the state of components, one obtains terms that can be interpreted as the complexity of the system structure. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010

Date: 2010
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