Spare optimization models for series and parallel structures

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 177-188

  Kumar, U Dinesh ^a   Knezevic, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUNDANCY; AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EXPONENTS; REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS; SOLVER SOFTWARE; SPARE OPTIMIZATION; BRANCH AND BOUND ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION MODEL; SPARE PARTS;

REPAIR; MACHINE COMPONENTS;

EID: 0030675493     PISSN: 13552511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552519710177952     Document Type: Article

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