New methods to minimize the preventive maintenance cost of series-parallel systems using ant colony optimization

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 346-354

  Samrout, M ^a   Yalaoui, F ^a   Chatelet E ^a   Chebbo, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Ant's colony system; Ants system; Availability; Cost; Optimization; Preventive maintenance; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANT'S COLONY SYSTEM; ANTS SYSTEM; COLONY OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE - MATLAB;

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 15844382738     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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