Berrade, M.D.; Cavalcante, Cristiano A.V.; Scarf, Philip A. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 218 (2012) 3, pp. 716-725
An inspection and replacement policy for a protection system is described in which the inspection process is subject to error, and false positives (false alarms) and false negatives are possible. We develop two models: one in which a false positive implies renewal of the protection system; the...