‎Entropy and Kullback-Leibler (KL) information for engineering systems have been studied in both statistical and reliability contexts‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we prove that the KL information between distributions of mixed ...

‎This paper proposes a signature-based approach for redundancy allocation problems when component lifetimes are heterogeneous and dependent‎. ‎If the component lifetimes are independent‎, ‎the proposed approach leads to ...

We provide an expression for the Shannon entropy of mixed r-out-of-n systems when the lifetimes of the components are independent and identically distributed. The expression gives the system’s entropy in terms of the system signature...

Since lifetimes of systems are not deterministic, partially orders are used for comparison

purposes which lead us to provide optimal system configurations. This paper deals with

a signature-based dispersive ...

among component lifetimes is preserved under coherent system formations.

The findings are based on system signatures as a useful measure from comparison purposes.

Furthermore, some results on the system’s entropy are derived when lifetimes...