System reliability optimization considering uncertainty: Minimization of the coefficient of variation for series-parallel systems

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 667-674

  Tekiner Mogulkoc, Hatice ^a   Coit, David W ^b  

^a ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation uncertainty; redundancy allocation problem; system reliability

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DECISION MAKERS; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; HEURISTIC APPROACH; LINEAR INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL ALGORITHM; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION PROBLEM; RISK AVERSE; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEM; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; SYSTEM RELIABILITY CONSTRAINTS;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MIXING; OPTIMIZATION; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 80052402875     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2011.2161029     Document Type: Article

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