Measures of component importance for markov chain imbeddable reliability structures
研究了马尔可夫链可嵌入系统（MIS）中元件的可靠性重要性，提出了评估Birnbaum重要性的方法，并针对同质MIS展示了生成函数技术，以k-out-of-n和连续k-out-of-n结构为例分析了元件可靠性排序。
In this article we study the reliability importance of the components for the wide class of Markov chain imbeddable systems (MIS). Methods for the evaluation of Birnbaum importance are developed for a general MIS, and some generating function techniques are demonstrated for the special case of homogeneous MISs. As an application, the reliability ordering for the components of a k-out-of-n and consecutive-k-out-of-n structure is examined in some detail. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 613–639, 1999