A corridor method based hybrid algorithm for redundancy allocation

Marco Caserta and Stefan Voß ()
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Marco Caserta: IE Business School
Stefan Voß: University of Hamburg

Journal of Heuristics, 2016, vol. 22, issue 4, No 4, 405-429

Abstract: Abstract In this paper a hybrid algorithm for the redundancy allocation problem is presented. The problem is the allocation of redundant components within series-parallel systems. We present an algorithm that deals with the classical formulation, where at least one component per subsystem must be included in the final configuration, as well as the $$k$$ k -out-of- $$n$$ n formulation, in which at least $$k$$ k components per subsystem must be included in the final network configuration. We propose a three-phase scheme in which the cross entropy method, the corridor method and a dynamic programming-based scheme are effectively intertwined. Computational results on well-known benchmark instances as well as on randomly generated large scale instances are presented, proving the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.

Keywords: Corridor method; Matheuristic; Metaheuristic; Reliability; Redundancy allocation; Cross entropy; Dynamic programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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