Information theory and the failure time of a system
The paper deals with a multi-component system with time-dependent characteristics. It introduces a measure for the rate of generation of information about the failure time of the system applying the mutual information of different components. Mutual information is a well-known measure of information and has many useful properties. In this paper traditional measures are slightly modified to get a better usefulness in the area of reliability. Several properties of the measure are derived and sample calculations for several hypothetical systems are presented.
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 148204
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