Partition Policies

Abstract

There have been many reliability models in our daily life whose performance improves by redundancy described well in Chap. 2. On the other hand, we have met with some interesting models in our studies whose characteristic values improve by partitioning their functions suitably. For example, some performance evaluations of computer systems can improve by partitioning their functions, although increase in costs, times, or overheads may be incurred through partitions. Such problems take their theoretical origin from the basic inspection policy [1, p. 201]. A typical model of partition problems in modern societies is the diversification of information and risks. One of the most important problems from classical reliability theory is the optimum allocation of redundancy subject to some constraints [2, 47].