• DocumentCode
    824561
  • Title

    Comments on “A Hierarchy of Importance Indices”

  • Author

    Zhu, Xiaoyan ; Kuo, Way

  • Author_Institution
    Ind. & Inf. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  • Volume
    57
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    529
  • Lastpage
    531
  • Abstract
    The paper by Hwang (IEEE Trans. Reliability, vol. 54, no.1, p. 169-172, 2005) presented structural importance measures in terms of cutsets or pathsets, and investigated how they are related. Hwang´s paper has made contributions to importance measures. However, several errors which cause confusions are found in the paper. This note is to clarify these errors, and discuss the suspicions.
  • Keywords
    reliability theory; set theory; Birnbaum importance; cutsets; importance indices; pathsets; structural importance measures; $overline{rm H}$-importance; Birnbaum importance; cutset; pathset; structural importance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TR.2008.928190
  • Filename
    4586443
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=824561