A combined approach to solve the redundancy optimization problem for multi-state systems under repair policies

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-213

  Nourelfath, Mustapha ^a   Dutuit, Yves ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Redundancy optimization; Repair policy; Stochastic Petri nets; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PETRI NETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REDUNDANCY;

GENERATING FUNCTION; REDUNDANCY OPTIMIZATIONS; REPAIR POLICY; STOCHASTIC PETRI NETS;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

EID: 4344605202     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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