Recent advances in optimal reliability allocation

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-36

  Kuo, Way ^a   Wan, Rui ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

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EID: 33845641762     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-37368-1_1     Document Type: Article

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