Research Article
Assessing the Impact of Virtual Standby Systems in Failure Propagation for Complex Wastewater Treatment Processes
Table 1
Comparison between methodologies for temporal operational continuity modelling.
| Model | Evaluation aspects | Temporal continuity | Failure rate | Flexibility | Number of variables required | Modelling size | Construction and analysis effort |
| RBD [6, 7] | No | Variable | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low | Markov [3] | Yes | Constant | Medium | Medium | Medium | High | Buffer [13] | Yes | Variable | High | High | Big | High | VSB | Yes | Variable | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
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