Group testing procedures with incomplete identification and unreliable testing results

Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-296

  Bar Lev, Shaul K ^a   Stadje, Wolfgang ^b   Van Der Duyn Schouten, Frank A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Group testing; Incomplete identification; Multistage; Stopping rule; Unreliable

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; GROUP TESTING; INCOMPLETE IDENTIFICATION; MULTISTAGE; STOPPING RULE; UNRELIABLE;

STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745353068     PISSN: 15241904     EISSN: 15264025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asmb.616     Document Type: Article

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