An Experimental Comparison of the Heuristic Methods for Solving Reliability Optimization Problems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn R-30, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 181-184

  Nakagawa, Yuji ^a   Miyazaki, Satoshi ^b  

^a Takamatsu Technical College ^*  (United States)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparison; Heuristic methods; Nonlinear constraints; Optimization; Test problems

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS - HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 0019582999     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.1981.5221026     Document Type: Article

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