High-order Markov chain models extend the conventional framework by incorporating dependencies that span several previous states rather than solely the immediate past. This extension allows for a ...

A series of bounds for the availability and unavailability in a fixed time interval, I, for a system of maintained, interdependent components are given in Natvig (1980) in the traditional binary case, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In structuring reliability growth prediction models as Markov chains, it is seen that the computation of the reliability after n trials and ...