Genetic algorithm to maximize a lower-bound for system time-to-failure with uncertain component Weibull parameters

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 423-440

  Coit, David W ^a   Smith, Alice E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Redundancy allocation problem; Reliability optimization; Weibull parameters

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL PARAMETERS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0036466946     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(01)00066-3     Document Type: Article

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