An efficient heuristic versus a robust hybrid meta-heuristic for general framework of serial-parallel redundancy problem

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1703-1710

  Sadjadi, Seyed Jafar ^a   Soltani, R ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Heuristic; Hybrid genetic algorithm; Redundancy; Reliability; Taguchi method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; HEURISTIC; HEURISTIC APPROACH; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM; HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; METAHEURISTIC; NP-HARD; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ROBUST DESIGN METHODS; TAGUCHI; TEST PROBLEM;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; TAGUCHI METHODS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 67949108021     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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