Title
A new index of component importance
Abstract
Several indices of component importance have been proposed in the literature. The index most relevant to system reliability is the Birnbaum importance, but a comparison between two components is hard to prove and even hard to verify by computation. In this paper we propose a new index which is stronger than the Birnbaum comparison, but always verifiable by computing. In many cases, it could even be easier to prove. We also show the relation of this index with other indices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1016/S0167-6377(01)00054-2
Oper. Res. Lett.
Keywords
Field
DocType
birnbaum comparison,new index,system reliability,component importance,birnbaum importance,cutset,indexation
Econometrics,Mathematical optimization,Theoretical computer science,Verifiable secret sharing,Mathematics,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
2
Operations Research Letters
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.02
1
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F. K. Hwang1332100.54