Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Publication Date: 2009/07/01 Vol. E92-ANo. 7pp. 1593-1599 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Technologies for Assessing System Reliability) Category: Keyword: multi-state k-out-of-n:F system, system state distribution, non-i.i.d. component state distributions,