this paper studies a maintenance policy for a system composed of two components, which are subject to continuous deterioration and consequently stochastic failure. the failure of each component results in the failure of the system. the components are inspected periodically and their deterioration degrees are monitored. the components can be maintained using different maintenance actions (repair...

we focus on the use of two stable and accurate explicit finite difference schemes in order to approximate the solution of stochastic partial differential equations of it¨o type, in particular, parabolic equations. the main properties of these deterministic difference methods, i.e., convergence, consistency, and stability, are separately developed for the stochastic cases.