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1. Full Text Some Recent Advances on Importance Measures in Reliability
by Way Kuo and Xiaoyan Zhu
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, ISSN 0018-9529, 06/2012, Volume 61, Issue 2, pp. 344 - 360
Many importance measures have been proposed with respect to the diverse considerations of system performance, reflecting different probabilistic... 
structure importance measures | Bayesian methods | Redundancy | Consecutive- k -out-of- n systems | Position measurement | joint importance measures | Probabilistic logic | lifetime importance measures | Vectors | Time measurement | reliability importance measures | Consecutive-k-out-of-n systems | INFORMED REGULATORY APPLICATIONS | SYSTEM COMPONENTS | DIFFERENTIAL IMPORTANCE MEASURE | FAULT-TREE | COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE | COMPONENT IMPORTANCE | PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT | ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC | COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | COHERENT SYSTEMS | OUT-OF-N | UNCERTAINTY IMPORTANCE MEASURE | BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE | Bayesian statistical decision theory | Monte Carlo method | Technology application | Usage | Reliability (Engineering) | Analysis | Distribution (Probability theory) | Methods | Simulation methods | Computation | Probability theory | Probabilistic methods
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2. Full Text A cost-based importance measure for system components: An extension of the Birnbaum importance
by Wu, Shaomin and Coolen, Frank P.A
European Journal of Operational Research, ISSN 0377-2217, 02/2013, Volume 225, Issue 1, pp. 189 - 195
â–º Introducing an importance measure. â–º Considering two scenarios. â–º Considering extensions. In reliability engineering, component importance measures are used... 
Barlow–Proschan importance | Birnbaum importance | Structural function | Risk-based importance | Cost-based importance | Barlow-Proschan importance | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | MULTISTATE SYSTEMS | RELIABILITY MODELS | JOINT IMPORTANCE | Costs | Mathematical analysis | Markets | Reliability engineering | Operational research | Maintenance | Cost analysis | Marketing
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3. The importance of being earnest
: authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 and Gillespie, Michael Patrick
2006, 1st ed., ISBN 9780393927535, xii, 209, [1]
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Criticism and interpretation
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4. Full Text Variable importance analysis: A comprehensive review
by Wei, Pengfei and Lu, Zhenzhou and Song, Jingwen
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ISSN 0951-8320, 10/2015, Volume 142, pp. 399 - 432
Measuring variable importance for computational models or measured data is an important task in many applications. It has drawn our attention that the variable... 
Variable importance analysis | Regression technique | Difference-based | Variance-based | Moment-independent | Random forest | Graphic variable importance measures | MODEL OUTPUT | NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS | GLOBAL SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | SAMPLING-BASED METHODS | MEASURING UNCERTAINTY IMPORTANCE | DOMINANCE ANALYSIS | RELATIVE IMPORTANCE | ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL | PREDICTOR SMOOTHING METHODS | EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY | Tasks | Aggregates | Packages | Regression | Software | Mathematical models | Optimization | Computer programs
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5. Full Text Importance analysis of multi-state systems based on tools of logical differential calculus
by Kvassay, Miroslav and Zaitseva, Elena and Levashenko, Vitaly
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ISSN 0951-8320, 09/2017, Volume 165, pp. 302 - 316
Importance analysis deals with the investigation of influence of individual system components on system operation. This investigation can be qualitative or... 
Criticality importance | Logical differential calculus | Multi-state system | Structural importance | Birnbaum's importance | Reliability | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | COMPONENT IMPORTANCE | ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL | Derivatives (Financial instruments) | Usage
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6. Full Text The reliability importance of components and prime implicants in coherent and non-coherent systems including total-order interactions
by Borgonovo, E
European Journal of Operational Research, ISSN 0377-2217, 2010, Volume 204, Issue 3, pp. 485 - 495
In the management of complex systems, knowledge of how components contribute to system performance is essential to the correct allocation of resources. Recent... 
Multilinear functions | Importance measures | Reliability | Joint reliability importance | INSPECTION | NETWORK | PSEUDO-BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS | RISK | MODEL | RANKING | REPLACEMENT | MAINTENANCE | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | UNCERTAINTY | BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE | Reliability Importance measures Joint reliability importance Multilinear functions
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7. Full Text Analysis for joint importance of components in a coherent system
by Gao, Xueli and Cui, Lirong and Li, Jinlin
European Journal of Operational Research, ISSN 0377-2217, 2007, Volume 182, Issue 1, pp. 282 - 299
JRI (Joint Reliability Importance) of two components is a measure of interaction of two components in a system for their contribution to the system... 
Joint failure importance | Conditional reliability importance | Reliability | Joint reliability importance | MONTE-CARLO | joint failure importance | DIFFERENTIAL IMPORTANCE MEASURE | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | conditional reliability importance | PROTECTION | RELIABILITY-IMPORTANCE | reliability | joint reliability importance | MULTISTATE ELEMENTS
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8. Full Text Linking component importance to optimisation of preventive maintenance policy
by Wu, Shaomin and Wu, Qingtai and Chen, Yi and Wang, Zhonglai
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ISSN 0951-8320, 02/2016, Volume 146, pp. 26 - 32
In reliability engineering, time on performing preventive maintenance (PM) on a component in a system may affect system availability if system operation needs... 
Criticality importance | Birnbaum importance | Cost-based component importance | Preventive maintenance | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | JOINT RELIABILITY-IMPORTANCE | MULTISTATE | ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL | EVENT | Availability | Policies | Reliability engineering | Joining | Safety | Maintenance | Optimization
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9. Full Text Importance measures in reliability and mathematical programming
by Zhu, Xiaoyan and Kuo, Way
Annals of Operations Research, ISSN 0254-5330, 1/2014, Volume 212, Issue 1, pp. 241 - 267
The importance measures have been a sensitivity analysis for a probabilistic system and are applied in diverse fields along with other design tools. This paper... 
Importance measures | Sensitivity analysis | Network flow | Operations Research/Decision Theory | Reliability design | Theory of Computation | Combinatorics | Uncertainty analysis | PRA | Economics / Management Science | Mathematical programming | SYSTEM COMPONENTS | DIFFERENTIAL IMPORTANCE MEASURE | COMPONENT IMPORTANCE | PERTURBATION ANALYSIS | F-SYSTEM | GLOBAL SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS | COHERENT SYSTEMS | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | OUT-OF-N | UNCERTAINTY IMPORTANCE MEASURE | BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE | Reliability (Engineering) | Research | Engineering research | Mathematical research | Mathematical optimization | Studies | Operations research | Reliability | Assessments
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10. The importance of being earnest d'Oscar Wilde
by Giudicelli, Xavier and Aquien, Pascal
2014, Mondes anglophones. Série Sillages critiques, ISBN 2840509598, 318
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest Adaptations | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Criticism and interpretation
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11. The paradox of identity
: Oscar Wilde's The importance of being earnest
by Degroisse, Élodie
2014, 1re éd., Collection CNED-PUF, ISBN 2130632955, 166
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest | Self in literature | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Themes, motives | Identity (Psychology) in literature
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12. Full Text Efficient numerical simulation methods for estimating fuzzy failure probability based importance measure indices
by Ling, Chunyan and Lu, Zhenzhou and Feng, Kaixuan and Sun, Bo
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, ISSN 1615-147X, 2/2019, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 577 - 593
For the problem with a fuzzy failure state which commonly exists in degradation structures and systems, the fuzzy failure probability based importance measure... 
Engineering | Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis | Importance measure indices | Adaptive radial-based importance sampling | Fuzzy state | Engineering Design | Bayesian formula | Theoretical and Applied Mechanics | Fuzzy failure probability | Monte Carlo simulation | DESIGN | STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY | IMPORTANCE SAMPLING METHOD | GLOBAL SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS | COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS | MECHANICS | ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | MODELS | INDEPENDENT IMPORTANCE MEASURE | VARIABLES | VARIANCE
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13. Oscar Wilde
: the Importance of being earnest
by Drugeon, Marianne and Vernadakis, Emmanuel
2014, Clefs concours. Anglais-littérature, ISBN 9782350302775, 221
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Importance of being Earnest Examinations
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14. The virulence-related rhoptry protein 5 (ROP5) of Toxoplasma Gondii is a novel vaccine candidate against toxoplasmosis in mice
by Zheng, B and Lu, S and Tong, Q and Kong, Q and Lou, D
Vaccine, ISSN 0264-410X, 09/2013, Volume 31, Issue 41, pp. 4578 - 4584
Infections with the intracellular protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii pose a serious public health problem and are of great economic importance worldwide. The... 
Economic importance
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15. Full Text Data mining in the life science swith random forest: A walk in the park or lost in the jungle?
by Touw, Wouter G and Bayjanov, Jumamurat R and Overmars, Lex and Backus, Lennart and Boekhorst, Jos and Wels, Michiel and Sacha van Hijum, A.F.T
Briefings in Bioinformatics, ISSN 1467-5463, 05/2013, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 315 - 326
Conditional relationships | Proximity | Variable interaction | Variable importance | Local importance | Random Forest
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16. Wilde
: comedies : a casebook : Lady Windermere's fan, A Woman of no importance, An Ideal husband, The Importance of being earnest
by Tydeman, William
1982, Casebook series, ISBN 9780333273234, 187
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Importance of being earnest | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Lady Windermere's fan | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Woman of no importance | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Criticism and interpretation | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Ideal husband
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17. Full Text An overview of PSA importance measures
by van der Borst, M and Schoonakker, H
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ISSN 0951-8320, 2001, Volume 72, Issue 3, pp. 241 - 245
The present paper deals with the use of probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) importance measures to optimise the performance of a nuclear power plant. This... 
Birnbaum importance | Risk achievement worth | Risk importance measures | Safety importance measures | Probabilistic safety assessment | Figures of merit | Fussell–Vesely importance | PRA | Fussell-Vesely importance | INFORMED REGULATORY APPLICATIONS | UNCERTAINTY IMPORTANCE | SUPPLEMENTAL VIEWPOINTS | safety importance measures | figures of merit | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | risk importance measures | risk achievement worth | probabilistic safety assessment | ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL
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18. Full Text Marginal and joint reliability importance based on survival signature
by Eryilmaz, Serkan and Coolen, Frank P.A and Coolen-Maturi, Tahani
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ISSN 0951-8320, 04/2018, Volume 172, pp. 118 - 128
Marginal and joint reliability importance measures have been found to be useful in optimal system design. Various importance measures have been defined and... 
Marginal reliability importance | Black box systems | Survival signature | Joint reliability importance | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | COMPONENT IMPORTANCE | SYSTEM RELIABILITY | ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL
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19. Full Text Importance measures for optimal structure in linear consecutive-k-out-of-n systems
by Dui, Hongyan and Si, Shubin and Yam, Richard C.M
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, ISSN 0951-8320, 01/2018, Volume 169, pp. 339 - 350
Importance measures can describe which component reliability change is the most promising if the system structure can be easily changed. Recently, the Birnbaum... 
Importance measure | System structure | System lifetime | System reliability | Consecutive-k-out-of-n system | INTEGRATED IMPORTANCE MEASURE | COMPONENT IMPORTANCE | NATVIG MEASURES | RELIABILITY | N-LESS-THAN-OR-EQUAL-TO-2K | MULTISTATE SYSTEMS | F-SYSTEM | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS | OPTIMAL ALLOCATION | ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL | BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE | Analysis | Business schools
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