Optimal multilevel redundancy allocation in series and series-parallel systems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 169-180

  Kumar, Ranjan ^a   Izui, Kazuhiro ^a   Yoshimura, Masataka ^a   Nishiwaki, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Component redundancy; Genetic algorithms; Modular redundancy; Multilevel series system; Multilevel series parallel; Redundancy allocation

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT REDUNDANCY; MODULAR REDUNDANCY; MULTILEVEL SERIES SYSTEM; MULTILEVEL SERIES-PARALLEL; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION;

DESIGN; DOCKING; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAINTAINABILITY; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; REDUNDANCY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 67349116799     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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