Title : 
Uncertain Alternating Renewal Process and Its Application
         
        
            Author : 
Kai Yao ; Xiang Li
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Math. Sci., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Uncertain process is a sequence of uncertain variables indexed by time and space. First, this paper presents a kind of uncertain process, known as the uncertain alternating renewal process, whose alternating interarrival times are uncertain variables. Then, it proves an uncertain alternating renewal theorem on the limit value of average working rate. Finally, an application of the alternating renewal theorem is discussed.
         
        
            Keywords : 
fuzzy set theory; probability; uncertain systems; alternating interarrival times; average working rate; fuzzy renewal theory; limit value; probability theory; uncertain alternating renewal process; uncertain variables; Frequency measurement; Maintenance engineering; Measurement uncertainty; Random variables; Uncertainty; Alternating renewal process; renewal process; uncertain process; uncertainty theory;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TFUZZ.2012.2194152