Maximization of Manufacturing Yield of Systems with Arbitrary Distributions of Component Values

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 373-383

  Seifi, Abbas ^a   Ponnambalam, K ^b   Vlach, Jiri ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical PDF; Design optimization; Yield maximization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034563314     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019288220413     Document Type: Article

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