| Article ID: | iaor1999494 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 1021 |
| End Page Number: | 1031 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1997 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Petakos Kyriakos, Tsapelas Theothosios |
| Keywords: | risk |
We consider some important systems in reliability theory situated in a random environment, where shocks occur and cause component failure in a specific way. We study some appropriate coefficients, which play an important role in the reduction of our systems to a linear combination of parallel subsystems.