Redundancy optimization problems with uncertainty of combining randomness and fuzziness

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 716-735

  Zhao, Ruiqing ^a   Liu, Baoding ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Neural networks; Programming; Reliability

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FUZZY THEORY; FUZZY VARIABLES; HYBRID INTELLIGENT ALGORITHMS; REDUNDANCY OPTIMIZATIONS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 2342514809     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00272-8     Document Type: Article

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