Reliability evaluation and optimization of dissimilar-component cold-standby redundant systems

Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-88

  Azaron, Amir ^a   Katagiri, Hideki ^a   Kato, Kosuke ^a   Sakawa, Masatoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graph theory; Markov processes; Multiple objective programming; Reliability optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644378344     PISSN: 04534514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15807/jorsj.48.71     Document Type: Article

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