Optimal load distribution in series-parallel systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-260

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Amari, Suprasad V ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b Relex Software Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure rate; Genetic algorithm; Multi state system; Optimal loading; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EVALUATING; FAILURE RATE; FAILURE RATES; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; LOAD DISTRIBUTION OPTIMIZATIONS; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; OPTIMAL LOAD DISTRIBUTIONS; OPTIMAL LOADING; OPTIMAL LOADINGS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL SYSTEMS; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCES; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 54049111067     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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