Combining Stochastic Competitive Scheme and Hysteresis Quantized Neuron for Reliability Maximization with Budget and Weight Constraints

• Published in: The proceedings of the Multiconference on "Computational Engineering in Systems Applications" : 4-6 October 2006 Vol. 2; pp. 1828 - 1833
• Main Authors: Jiahai Wang, Yalan Zhou
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2006
• Subjects: Computer network reliability; Computer networks; Constraint optimization; Hopfield neural network; Hopfield neural networks; Hysteresis; hysteresis quantized neuron; Neural networks; Neurons; Reliability engineering; reliability optimization; stochastic competitive Hopfield neural network; Stochastic processes; Systems engineering and theory

In this paper, we propose a new neural network method combining stochastic competitive scheme and hysteresis quantized neurons for the reliability optimization of a series system with multiple-choice constraints incorporated at each subsystem, to maximize the system reliability subject to the system...