DocumentCode
1462890
Title
Reliability optimization of coherent systems
Author
Prasad, V. Rajendra ; Kuo, Way
Author_Institution
KBSI, College Station, TX, USA
Volume
49
Issue
3
fYear
2000
fDate
9/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
323
Lastpage
330
Abstract
This paper presents a search method based on lexicographic order, and an upper bound on the objective function, for solving redundancy allocation problems in coherent systems. Such problems generally belong to the class of nonlinear integer programming problems with separable constraints and nondecreasing functions. For illustration, 3 types of problems are solved using our method. Numerical investigation shows the performance of the method for large problems
Keywords
integer programming; nonlinear programming; redundancy; reliability; search problems; coherent systems; exact solution method; lexicographic order; nondecreasing functions; nonlinear integer programming problems; objective function upper bound; redundancy allocation; reliability optimization; search method; separable constraints; Algorithm design and analysis; Constraint optimization; Costs; Dynamic programming; Linear programming; Power system reliability; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Search methods; Upper bound;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9529
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/24.914551
Filename
914551
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