Optimal reliability allocation with discrete cost-reliability data for components

Operations Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 899-906

  Majety, Subba Rao V ^a   Dawande, Milind ^b   Rajgopal, Jayant ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

DISCRETE COST-RELIABILITY FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR INTEGER PROGRAMS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0033340485     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.47.6.899     Document Type: Article

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