Article ID: | iaor1995523 |
Country: | Switzerland |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 173 |
End Page Number: | 185 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1994 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Boffey T.B., Colbourn Charles J., Nel Louis D., Yates D.F. |
Keywords: | communication, networks |
An efficient generalization of Shanthikumar’s upper bound on two-terminal reliability is developed, that leads to efficient methods for the probabilistic assessment of damage from fire spread and other invasive hazards in segmented structures. The methods exploit a basic relationship between the fire spread problem and the probability of reachability in communications networks. The upper bound employs noncrossing cuts of the network.