Minimal Repair Redundancy for Coherent Systemin its Signatures Representation

Vanderlei da Costa Bueno

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DOI: 10.4236/ajor.2011.11002                

Abstract

In this paper we discuss how to maintain the signature representation of a coherent system through a minimal repair redundancy. In a martingale framework we use compensator transforms to identify how the components minimal repairs affect the order statistics in the signature representation.

Keywords

System signature; Dynamic system signature; Coherent systems; Point processes martingales

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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