Lévy Processes and Their Applications in Reliability and Storage

• Main Author: Abdel-Hameed, Mohamed (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

This book covers Lévy processes and their applications in the contexts of reliability and storage. Special attention is paid to life distributions and the maintenance of devices subject to degradation; estimating the parameters of the degradation process is also discussed, as is the maintenance of d...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Notation and Terminology
• Lévy Processes and Their Characteristics
• Degradation Processes
• Storage Models: Control of Dams Using P^M_{\lambda,\tau} Policies
• Appendix
• Index. .