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Performance Improvement of a Multi-State Coherent System using Component Importance Measure

Soma RoychowdhuryIndian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Calcutta, India; Correspondence[email protected]
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Debasis BhattacharyaVisva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
Pages 312-324 | Published online: 30 Apr 2019

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