TY - BOOK AU - Abdel-Hameed,Mohamed ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Lévy Processes and Their Applications in Reliability and Storage T2 - SpringerBriefs in Statistics, SN - 9783642400759 AV - QA273.A1-274.9 U1 - 519.2 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - mathematics KW - Distribution (Probability theory) KW - Industrial engineering KW - Mathematics KW - Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes KW - Industrial and Production Engineering KW - Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences N1 - Preface -- Notation and Terminology -- Lévy Processes and Their Characteristics -- Degradation Processes -- Storage Models: Control of Dams Using P^M_{\lambda,\tau} Policies -- Appendix -- Index.  N2 - This book covers Lévy processes and their applications in the contexts of reliability and storage. Special attention is paid to life distributions and the maintenance of devices subject to degradation; estimating the parameters of the degradation process is also discussed, as is the maintenance of dams subject to Lévy input UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40075-9 ER -