A multi-objective decision making on reliability growth planning for in-service systems

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4677-4683

  Jin, Tongdan ^a   Wang, Haibo ^b  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corrective actions; Optimization; Reliability growth

Indexed keywords

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; DECISION MAKERS; DELIVERY DEADLINES; FAILURE INTENSITY; GREEDY HEURISTICS; MAXIMUM RELIABILITY; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; MULTI OBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION MODELS; NEW DESIGN; REDUCTION RATE; RELIABILITY GROWTH; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT; SERVICE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TIME-TO-MARKET;

CYBERNETICS; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 74849132745     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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