A review of the use of multicriteria and multi-objective models in maintenance and reliability

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 249-271

  De Almeida, Adiel Teixeira ^a   Ferreira, Rodrigo José Pires ^a   Cavalcante, Cristiano Alexandre V ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

maintenance policies; multi criteria decision; preventive maintenance

Indexed keywords

PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; RELIABILITY;

DECISION MODELING; MAINTENANCE POLICY; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; MULTIOBJECTIVE MODELS; REAL PROBLEMS; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84937397393     PISSN: 1471678X     EISSN: 14716798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imaman/dpv010     Document Type: Article

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