Reliability of k separate minimal paths under both time and budget constraints

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 183-190

  Lin, Yi Kuei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Budget constraint; K minimal paths; Multistate flow network; Quickest path; Time constraint

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONSTRAINT; FLOW NETWORK; MINIMAL PATH; MULTI STATE; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

ALGORITHMS; RELIABILITY;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 77949267661     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2009.2035794     Document Type: Article

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