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The paper examines the performance distribution for continuous-state systems that may be essentially different from Gaussian. Notable progress in understanding the nature of rare events and the implications for heavy-tailed distributions has been achieved in the last decade. The insights, however, even though they generated robust interest in such distributions, are not reflected strongly enough in reliability engineering practice. The paper presents four simple mechanisms of heavy-tail formation in reliability engineering contexts, their importance and the phenomena where they may appear. It also discusses the implications of this knowledge for optimization of quality controller performance.
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Bashkansky, E., Gadrich, T. (2012). Reliability of Continuous-State Systems in View of Heavy-Tailed Distributed Performance Features. In: Lisnianski, A., Frenkel, I. (eds) Recent Advances in System Reliability. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2207-4_21
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