Some properties and computational results for a general repair process

✍ Scribed by J. S. Dagpunar

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-069X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6750(199806)45:4<391::aid-nav5>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

We consider a general repair process where the virtual age V i after the ith repair is given by V i Å f(V i01 / X i ), f(r) is a specified repair functional, and X i is the time between the (i 0 1)th and ith repair. Some monotonicity and dominance properties are derived, and an equilibrium process is considered. A computational method for evaluating the expected number/density of repairs is described together with an approximation method for obtaining some parameters of the equilibrium process.