Fast Simulation of Dependability Models with General Failure, Repair and Maintenance Processes

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Abstract: "The problem of computing dependability measures of repairable systems with general failure, repair and maintenance processes is a hard problem to solve in general either by analytical or by numerical methods. Monte Carlo simulation could be used to solve this problem, however, standard simulation takes a very long time to estimate system reliability and availability with reasonable accuracy because typically the system failure is a rare event. When the failure and repair time distributions are exponential, importance sampling has been used successfully in the past to reduce simulation run lengths.