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Bering reviews 'Framed: Tales of the Art Underworld' by Tod Volpe.

Consider a series system consisting of n components of k types. Whenever a unit fails,
it is replaced immediately by a new one to keep the system working. Under the assumption that
all the life lengths of the components are independent and exponentially distributed and that the
replacement policies depend only on the present state of the system at each failure, the system
may be represented by a birth and death process. The existence of the optimum replacement
policies are discussed and the ε-optimal policies axe derived. If the past experience of the system
can also be utilized, the process is not a Markov process. The optimum Bayesian policies are
derived and the properties of the resulting process axe studied. Also, the stochastic processes
are simulated and the probability of absorption, the mean time to absorption and the average
proportion of the retrograde motion are approximated.

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