Information theory and the failure time of a system (Q1205795)
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Information theory and the failure time of a system (English)
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1 April 1993
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The paper deals with a multi-component system with time-dependent characteristics. It introduces a measure for the rate of generation of information about the failure time of the system applying the mutual information of different components. Mutual information is a well-known measure of information and has many useful properties. In this paper traditional measures are slightly modified to get a better usefulness in the area of reliability. Several properties of the measure are derived and sample calculations for several hypothetical systems are presented.
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Poisson shock model
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white noise
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entropy
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Markov process
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first passage time
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stress-strength model
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multi-component system
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time-dependent characteristics
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failure time
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mutual information
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measure of information
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reliability
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