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.