A novel approach for optimal cost-effective design of complex repairable systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 406-415

  Amari, Suprasad V ^a   Pham, Hoang ^b  

^a Relex Software Corporation   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cost effective design; Optimization; Repairable system; System availability

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; OPTIMIZATION; REPAIR;

REPAIRABLE SYSTEM; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34247212112     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.893454     Document Type: Article

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