System reliability optimization considering uncertainty: Minimization of a coefficient of variation measure

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 995-1000

  Tekiner, Hatice ^a   Coit, David W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Estimation uncertainty; Redundancy allocation problem; System reliability

Indexed keywords

A COEFFICIENTS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATIONS; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION PROBLEM; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM LEVELS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; SYSTEM RELIABILITY CONSTRAINTS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 63849253854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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