A Heuristic Approach to Optimal Assignment of Components to a Parallel-Series Network

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 555-558

  Nair, K P ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assignment technique; Component placement; Heuristic; Reliability optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149170158     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.106776     Document Type: Article

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