Article ID: | iaor20103926 |
Volume: | 94 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 1416 |
End Page Number: | 1421 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
Journal: | Reliability Engineering and System Safety |
Authors: | Kaegi M, Mock R, Krger W |
Keywords: | agent based system |
Thoroughly planned and implemented maintenance strategies save time and cost. However, the integration of maintenance work into reliability analysis is difficult as common modeling techniques are often not applicable due to state explosion which calls for restrictive model assumptions and oversimplification. From authors' point of view, agent-based modeling (ABM) of technical and organizational systems is a promising approach to overcome such problems. But since ABM is not well established in reliability analysis its feasibility in this area still has to be demonstrated. For this purpose ABM is compared with Markov chains, namely by analyzing the reliability of a maintained