A multi-objective approach to redundancy allocation problem in parallel-series systems

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 582-589

  Wang, Zai ^a   Tianshi, Chen ^a   Tang, Ke ^a   Yao, Xin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS; EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH; MULTI OBJECTIVE; MULTI OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; NON-DOMINATED SORTING GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NSGA-II; PARALLEL SERIES SYSTEM; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION PROBLEM; RELIABILITY LEVEL; RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE OBJECTIVE; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; REDUNDANCY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 70449817116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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