TUTORIAL ON THE CARE III APPROACH TO RELIABILITY MODELING.

CARE III is a major departure from conventional approaches to reliability modeling in that it purports to support nonexponential distributions, while avoiding the problem of large state spaces through the use of state aggregation. More specifically, CARE III uses a combination of semi-Markov techniques (while analyzing the coverage model) and time-dependent transition parameters resulting in a nonhomogeneous Markov chain (at the aggregate model level). Several simple examples illustrating important features of the CARE III model are presented, and some approximation techniques are discussed.

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Author Kishor S. Trivedi Electrical and Computer Engineering