Homogeneous redundancy optimization in multi-state series-parallel systems: A heuristic approach

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-289

  Agarwal, Manju ^a   Gupta, Rashika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Heuristic approach; Multi state; Redundancy optimization; Series parallel system

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY;

REDUNDANCY OPTIMIZATION; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 33845886421     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170600743920     Document Type: Article

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