An Improved Algorithm for Reliability Optimization

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-27, Issue 5, 1978, Pages 325-328

  Gopal, Krishna ^a   Aggarwal, K K ^a   Gupta, J S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Optimization; Redundancy; Relative increment; Selection factor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - SUBROUTINES; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING - REDUNDANCY;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0018064148     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1978.5220403     Document Type: Article

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