Availability
Availability is well established in the literature of stochastic modeling and optimal maintenance. Barlow and Proschan define availability of a repairable system as "the probability that the system is operating at a specified time t." While Blanchard gives a qualitative definition of availability as "a measure of the degree of a system which is in the operable and committable state at the start of mission when the mission is called for at an unknown random point in time." This definition comes from the MIL-STD-721. Lie, Hwang, and Tillman developed a complete survey along with a systematic classification of availability.
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