An approach for analyzing the reliability of industrial systems using soft-computing based technique

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 489-501

  Garg, Harish ^a   Rani, Monica ^b   Sharma, S P ^b  

^a THAPAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

ABCBLT; Artificial bee colony; Fuzzy reliability; Lambda Tau methodology; Membership function; Repairable industrial system

Indexed keywords

ABCBLT; ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONIES; FUZZY RELIABILITY; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; LAMBDA-TAU METHODOLOGIES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRY; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885958689     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.07.075     Document Type: Article

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