Reliability-oriented multi-resource allocation in a stochastic-flow network

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-161

  Hsieh, Chung Chi ^a   Lin, Ming Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Minimal path vector; Network reliability; Resource allocation; Stochastic flow network

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MULTI-RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037999098     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00082-6     Document Type: Article

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