KE, JAU-CHUAN; LIN, CHUEN-HORNG - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 22 (2005) 04, pp. 555-582
The main purpose of this paper is to study the reliability and availability of a system with M operating devices, m spares, and an imperfect service station that takes vacations. Specifically, once there are no failed devices in the system, the service station takes consecutive vacations until...