Numerical Treatment of Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous Semi-Markov Reliability Models

Abstract In this paper, we extend to our knowledge, for the first case, some reliability results using homogeneous semi-Markov processes to the case of homogeneous modeling semi-Markov processes. Moreover, we apply some of our preceding results to give the numerical solutions and so the possibility to treat real life problems for which non-homogeneity in time is important.

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