Cost-optimization heuristic algorithm in safety engineering

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-164

  Avner, Ben Yair ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cost optimization; Cost reliability problem; Fault tree simulation; Primary failure; Top critical failure

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COST-OPTIMZATION; COST-RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; FAULT TREE SIMULATION; PRIMARY FAILURE; TOP CRITICAL FAILURE;

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 4043059914     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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