Title :
Some General Properties of Multi-state Physical Models
Author :
Rocchi, Paolo ; Tsitsiashvili, Gurami Sh
Author_Institution :
IBM, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
The present contribution centers on the physical models of the stochastic system, in particular we investigate the general properties of functioning and repair/maintenance states of systems. Each macro-state has a number of sub-states that assume different patterns. We depict artificial systems with a linear pattern, and biological systems with a mesh patter. The behavior of each pattern, calculated by means of the Boltzmann-like entropy, is consistent with empirical data. Moreover the present work focuses on the reparability function - derived by the Boltzmann-like entropy - which describes common features of repairable systems.
Keywords :
biology; stochastic processes; Boltzmann-like entropy; biological system; linear pattern; maintenance state; multistate physical model; repair state; reparability function; stochastic system; Aging; Biological system modeling; Biological systems; Entropy; Maintenance engineering; Reliability; Multi-state Systems; Reliability; Reparability;
Conference_Titel :
Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2013 Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Regensburg
DOI :
10.1109/ARES.2013.96