Abstract

Abstract In the present paper, we consider some frequently used importance measures, in their generalized form proposed by the authors for application to multi-state systems constituted by multi-state components. To catch the dynamics of multi-state systems, Monte Carlo simulation has been utilized. A simulation approach has been presented which allows estimating of all the importance measures of the components at a given performance level in a single simulation, provided that the components are independent. The effects of different performance demands made on the system on the importance of its multi-state components have been examined with respect to a simple multi-state series–parallel system. The results have shown that a performance level of a component may be more critical for the achievement of a system performance and less critical for another.

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