Note: Optimal allocation of resources to nodes of series systems with respect to failure-rate ordering

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 147-152

  Singh, Harshinder ^a   Singh, Radhey S ^b  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPONENTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY;

FAILURE RATE ORDERING; K ACTIVE SPARES; SERIES SYSTEMS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 0031076454     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199702)44:1<147::AID-NAV9>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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