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Reliability assessment for fuzzy multi-state systems

Yu Liu School of Mechatronics Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610054, China
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Hong-Zhong HuangCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 365-379 | Received 29 Mar 2008, Accepted 26 Apr 2009, Published online: 16 Mar 2010

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