Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10420731 | Reliability Engineering & System Safety | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
In many applications, ranging from target detection to safety monitoring systems, we are interested in determining whether or not to accept a hypothesis based on the information available. In this paper we model the reliability of threshold weighted voting systems (WVS) with multi-failure-modes, where a general recursive reliability function of the WVS is presented. We also develop approximation formulas for calculating the reliability of WVS based on a large number of units. We also develop reliability functions of time-dependent threshold weighted voting systems, where each unit is a function of time. Finally, the optimal stopping time that minimizes the total cost of the systems subject to a reliability constraint is discussed.
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Authors
Minge Xie, Hoang Pham,