Modelling redundancy allocation for a fuzzy random parallel-series system

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 539-557

  Wang, Shuming ^a   Watada, Junzo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convergence; Fuzzy random variable; Genetic algorithm; Parallel series system; Reliability; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE THEOREM; COST MINIMIZATION; DISCRETIZATION METHOD; FUZZY RANDOM; FUZZY RANDOM SIMULATION; FUZZY RANDOM VARIABLE; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; NONCONVEX; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; PARALLEL-SERIES SYSTEM; RANDOM SIMULATION; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION PROBLEM; SENSITIVITY; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL DATAS;

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; RANDOM PROCESSES; REDUNDANCY; SIMULATORS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; THEOREM PROVING;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 68349125516     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2009.06.034     Document Type: Article

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