Heuristics for component assignment problems based on the Birnbaum importance

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 633-646

  Yao, Qingzhu ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyan ^a   Kuo, Way ^b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Birnbaum importance; Component assignment problem; heuristics; invariant optimal design; statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; BI-BASED; BIRNBAUM IMPORTANCE; DESIGN HEURISTICS; HEURISTICS; LARGE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL TESTING; OPTIMAL ARRANGEMENT; OPTIMAL DESIGN; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TWO STAGE;

OPTIMIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79958741439     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2010.532856     Document Type: Article

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