Ant system for reliability optimization of a series system with multiple-choice and budget constraints

• Published in: Reliability engineering & system safety Vol. 87; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: Nahas, Nabil, Nourelfath, Mustapha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2005; Elsevier
• Subjects: Ant system; Applied sciences; Exact sciences and technology; Flows in networks. Combinatorial problems; Multiple-choice; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Reliability optimization; Reliability theory. Replacement problems; Series system; Ant system; Reliability optimization; Series system; Multiple-choice; Integer programming; Local search; Non linear programming; System reliability; Combinatorial optimization

Many researchers have shown that insect colonies behavior can be seen as a natural model of collective problem solving. The analogy between the way ants look for food and combinatorial optimization problems has given rise to a new computational paradigm, which is called ant system. This paper presen...