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The chapter is focused on the human resource influence on dependability of discrete transportation systems (DTS). The human resource means the driver of the vehicle. We add him/her as a new element of the system description. The dependability means the combination of the reliability and functional parameters of the DTS. This way the analysis of the DTS behavior seems to be more sophisticated. The unified containers transported by trucks with the set of time-type assumptions are the essence of the system discussed. The proposed method is based on modeling and simulating of the system behavior. The income of containers is modeled by a stochastic process. Each container has a source and destination address. The central node is the destination address for all containers generated in the ordinary nodes. We also propose the heuristic management approach as well as the functional metric for DTS and we test the example system based on the real data.
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Walkowiak, T., Mazurkiewicz, J. (2011). Human Resource Influence on Dependability of Discrete Transportation Systems. In: Zamojski, W., Kacprzyk, J., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T. (eds) Dependable Computer Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21393-9_21
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