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Author(s): | Eusébio Nunes José António Faria Manuel Matos |
Title: | A comparative analysis of dependability assessment methodologies for markovian and non-markovian systems |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
Abstract: | This paper presents a comparative analysis of several reliability evaluation methodologies for discrete-state markovian, semi-markovian, and non-markoviansystems, and discusses the situations where the use of each one of these approaches seems to be the more appropriate one. The first part of the paper reviewsthese three classes of systems, along with the mathematical foundations of the corresponding evaluation methodologies. The emphasis is put on continuousMarkov processes and embedded Markov chains, respectively, for markovian and semi-markovian systems. For non-markovian systems, the device of stagesand the DepCim methodologies will be introduced together with the Monte Carlo simulation techniques. The second part of the paper analyses the errorintroduced in the reliability indexes when the system under study contains non-exponential but, for evaluation purposes, is adopted the usual assumption that thesystems has a markovian behaviour pattern, i.e. all their processes have exponential distributions so that the transition rates between states are constant. In thefinal part of the paper, a set of heuristic rules will be proposed allowing to foresee, from the structure of the models and the distributions of their individualprocesses, the situations where the error is more likely to be significant, so that a non-markovian evaluation methodology should be employed. |
Subject: | Outras ciências da engenharia e tecnologias Other engineering and technologies |
Scientific areas: | Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias::Outras ciências da engenharia e tecnologias Engineering and technology::Other engineering and technologies |
URI: | https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/94674 |
Source: | Proceedings ESREL 2002 - European Safety and Reliability Conference |
Document Type: | Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional |
Rights: | restrictedAccess |
Appears in Collections: | FEUP - Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional |
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