A decision-analytic approach to reliability-based design optimization

Operations Research

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1262-1270

  Bordley, Robert F ^a   Pollock, Stephen M ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chance constrained programming; Decision analysis; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROACH; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED; CHANCE-CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING; DECISION ANALYSIS; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; MACHINE DESIGN; MOORING; STEEL STRUCTURES; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70350244835     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0661     Document Type: Article

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