Reliability optimization for weighted voting system

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 131-138

  Levitin, G ^a   Lisnianski, A ^a  

^a Planning   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION; WEIGHTED VOTING SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035254149     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00089-2     Document Type: Article

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