A two-stage approach for multi-objective decision making with applications to system reliability optimization

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1585-1592

  Li, Zhaojun ^a   Liao, Haitao ^b   Coit, David W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Multi objective optimization; Self organizing map; System reliability

Indexed keywords

MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES; PARETO OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SOLUTION IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TWO STAGE;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649449001     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.022     Document Type: Article

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