Improved cuckoo search for reliability optimization problems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 459-468

  Valian, Ehsan ^a   Tavakoli, Saeed ^a   Mohanna, Shahram ^a   Haghi, Atiyeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cuckoo search; Improved cuckoo search; Large scale; Optimization; Reliability problem

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY;

CUCKOO SEARCH ALGORITHMS; CUCKOO SEARCHES; ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; LARGE-SCALE; META-HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84881609341     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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