• DocumentCode
    1316012
  • Title

    Calculating the Probability of Boolean Expression Being 1

  • Author

    Schneeweiss, W.G

  • Author_Institution
    Siemens AG; Rheinbreuchenstrasse 50; D 75, Karlsruhe 21 WEST GERMANY
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1977
  • fDate
    4/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    22
  • Abstract
    A conceptually extremely simple way to calculate the probability of a Boolean expression being 1 is given. The method is useful for the evaluation of fault trees.
  • Keywords
    Boolean algebra; Boolean functions; Fault trees; Probability; Proposals; Random variables; Reliability engineering; Reliability theory; Boolean expression; Fault tree; Reverse-Polish;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.1977.5215064
  • Filename
    5215064