Renewal reward processes with fuzzy rewards and their applications to T-age replacement policies

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 606-617

  Popova, Elmira ^a   Wu, Hsien Chung ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; MACHINERY; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY;

RENEWAL REWARD PROCESSES; REPLACEMENT;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0032668120     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00247-1     Document Type: Article

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