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Recent developments in fuzzy set theory and the theory of multistate structure functions solved some important problems that arise in the classical reliability theory, based upon binary structure functions and probability theory. First we give an overview of some important non-probabilistic reliability models which are mainly based upon fuzzy set theory and possibility theory and we situate our approach based upon possibility theory and multistate structure functions among the existing models. Secondly, to gain more insight into our approach, we study a typical aspect of the possibilistic reliability functions: the structure function independence, s-independence for short.
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Cappelle, B., Kerre, E.E. (1995). A general possibilistic framework for reliability theory. In: Bouchon-Meunier, B., Yager, R.R., Zadeh, L.A. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Computing — IPMU '94. IPMU 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 945. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035964
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