Multiple weighted objectives heuristic for the redundancy allocation problem

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 551-558

  Coit, David W ^a   Konak, Abdullah ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple objective optimization; Redundancy allocation; System reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; SUBSYSTEM RELIABILITIES; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 34047271087     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.879654     Document Type: Article

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