| Article ID: | iaor2007574 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 525 |
| End Page Number: | 530 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2006 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Prez-Ocn Rafael, Montoro-Cazorla Delia |
| Keywords: | markov processes |
We consider a system subject to external and internal failures. The operational time has a phase-type distribution (PH-distribution). Failures arrive following a Markovian arrival process (MAP). Some failures require the replacement of the system, and others a minimal repair. This model extends previous papers with arrivals governed by PH-renewal processes.