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Tight Bounds on the Coeffcients of Consecutive -out-of-: Systems
In this paper we compute the coefficients of the reliability polynomial of a
consecutive--out-of-: system, in Bernstein basis, using the
generalized Pascal coefficients. Based on well-known combinatorial properties
of the generalized Pascal triangle we determine simple closed formulae for the
reliability polynomial of a consecutive system for particular ranges of .
Moreover, for the remaining ranges of (where we were not able to determine
simple closed formulae), we establish easy to calculate sharp bounds for the
reliability polynomial of a consecutive system.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for presentation at the International
Conference on Computers Communications and Control (ICCCC), May 202