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A Note on Time Monotonicity for Performability Models
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
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For a class of performability models with component-interdependent repairs and breakdowns, monotonicity is shown over time for expected availability measures. This result is of interest to justify steady-state bounds.
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1996 , pp. 299 - 310
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