A heuristic method for non-homogeneous redundancy optimization of series-parallel multi-state systems

• Published in: Journal of heuristics Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22
• Main Authors: Ouzineb, Mohamed, Nourelfath, Mustapha, Gendreau, Michel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.02.2011; Springer Science + Business Media; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization; Computer science; Design; Genetic algorithms; Heuristic; Integer programming; Linear programming; Management Science; Mathematics; Mathematics and Statistics; Operations Research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Optimization; Optimization techniques; Parallel processing; Studies; Canada; Multi-state; Series-parallel systems; Non-homogeneous redundancy optimization; Meta-heuristics

This paper develops an efficient heuristic to solve the non-homogeneous redundancy allocation problem for multi-state series-parallel systems. Non identical components can be used in parallel to improve the system availability by providing redundancy in subsystems. Multiple component choices are ava...