Based on the cost-reliability relation, this paper proposes a generalized Birnbaum importance measure (GBIM) to quantify the contribution of individual components to system reliability improvement by ...

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Birnbaum's importance measure is one of the most relevant measures. If the components are (stochastically) independent, this measure can be defined using several equivalent expressions. However, in ...

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