Redundancy allocation for series-parallel systems using a max-min approach

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 891-898

  Ramirez Marquez, Jose E ^a   Coit, David W ^a   Konak, Abdullah ^b  

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

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

MINIMUM SUBSYSTEM RELIABILITY; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEM;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 3943062240     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490473097     Document Type: Article

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