Standby redundancy optimization problems with fuzzy lifetimes

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 318-338

  Zhao, Ruiqing ^a   Liu, Baoding ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy programming; Genetic algorithm; Neural network; System reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

Α-SYSTEM LIFETIME; FUZZY PROGRAMMING; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 24344465324     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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