Efficient estimation of the mean time between failures in non-regenerative dependability models

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Efficient estimation of the mean time between failures in non-regenerative dependability models

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Proceedings of the 25th conference on Winter simulation table of contents

Los Angeles, California, United States

Pages: 311 - 316

Year of Publication: 1993

ISBN:0-7803-1381-X

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Peter W. Glynn	Department of Operations Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Philip Heidelberger	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY
Victor F. Nicola	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY
Perwez Shahabuddin	IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY

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	6	Philip Heidelberger , Victor F. Nicola , Perwez Shahabuddin, Simultaneous and efficient simulation of highly dependable systems with different underlying distributions, Proceedings of the 24th conference on Winter simulation, p.458-465, December 13-16, 1992, Arlington, Virginia, United States [doi>10.1145/167293.167402]
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CITED BY 4

	Philip Heidelberger , Perwez Shahabuddin , Victor F. Nicola, Bounded relative error in estimating transient measures of highly dependable non-Markovian systems, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), v.4 n.2, p.137-164, April 1994
	Perwez Shahabuddin, Rare event simulation in stochastic models, Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation, p.178-185, December 03-06, 1995, Arlington, Virginia, United States
	Philip Heidelberger, Fast simulation of rare events in queueing and reliability models, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), v.5 n.1, p.43-85, Jan. 1995
	Sandeep Juneja , Victor Nicola, Efficient simulation of buffer overflow probabilities in jackson networks with feedback, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), v.15 n.4, p.281-315, October 2005

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Peter W. Glynn: colleagues

Philip Heidelberger: colleagues

Victor F. Nicola: colleagues

Perwez Shahabuddin: colleagues

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