Information theory and the failure time of a system (Q1205795)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 148204
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    Information theory and the failure time of a system
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 148204

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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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