Optimal mission abort policy for the heterogeneous two-component system with constraints on simultaneous components' rescue

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Levitin, Gregory and Finkelstein, Maxim (2026) Optimal mission abort policy for the heterogeneous two-component system with constraints on simultaneous components' rescue. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 272 (1). 112460. ISSN 0951-8320 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2026.112460)

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Abstract

At many instances, mission abort in systems performing important tasks is followed by a rescue procedure that is mostly aimed at survival of costly systems. Existing mission aborting models assume that when more than one component is involved in accomplishing a mission, the rescue procedures for individual components are performed independently. However, systems often have no sufficient resources to perform the rescue procedures for several/all components simultaneously. Then the mission abort for some components can be delayed or cancelled. This paper considers the two-component system in which simultaneous rescue of both components is prohibited. It suggests algorithm for evaluating the expected mission losses for this setting. In addition, it formulates and solves the mission abort policy optimization problem and presents practical examples that show that the operational dependence between components effects the mission success metrics and the corresponding mission abort policy.

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Levitin, Gregory and Finkelstein, Maxim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3018-8353;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:95693
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    1 August 2026
    Published
    2 March 2026
    Published Online
    20 February 2026
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Mathematics
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:03 Mar 2026 13:53
    Last modified:11 Mar 2026 10:50
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/95693
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