Article ID: | iaor20043548 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 88 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 73 |
End Page Number: | 83 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Yeh Wei-Chang |
Keywords: | networks: flow |
Many real-world systems (such as electric power, transportation, etc.) are multistate systems composed of multistate components. Such systems may be regarded as flow networks whose arcs have independent, discrete, limited and multivalued random capacities. Their reliability can be computed in terms of minimal cut (MC) vectors to level