Importance sampling simulations of Markovian reliability systems using cross-entropy

DOI10.1007/s10479-005-5727-9zbMath1075.90023OpenAlexW2134519345MaRDI QIDQ2485929

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Publication date: 5 August 2005

Published in: Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-005-5727-9

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilityMarkov chainsimportance samplingrare event simulationcross entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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