Optimal allocation of interchangeable components in a series-parallel system

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 255-260

  Rajendra Prasad, V ^a,b   Raghavachari, M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Component allocation; Linear programming; Majorization; Series parallel system

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTERCHANGEABLE COMPONENTS ALLOCATION; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEMS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032157442     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.740496     Document Type: Article

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