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TITLE: A Coherent System Component Importance under Its Signatures Representation
AUTHORS: Vanderlei da Costa Bueno
KEYWORDS: System Signature, Dynamic System Signature, Coherent Systems, Component Importance, Point Processes Martingales
JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Operations Research, Vol.1 No.3, September 30, 2011
ABSTRACT: In this paper we discuss how to measure the component importance for a system in its signature representation. The definition is given in terms of compensator transform and it can be considered as a new formalization of the ideas presented by Bergman [1] in the context of system signature.