 Exact and heuristic methods for the selective maintenance problemT. Lust, O. Roux and F. Riane European Journal of Operational Research, 2009, vol. 197, issue 3, 1166-1177 Abstract: We present in this paper, new resolution methods for the selective maintenance problem. This problem consists in finding the best choice of maintenance actions to be performed on a multicomponent system, so as to maximize the system reliability, within a time window of a limited duration. When the number of components of the system is important, this combinatorial problem is not easy to solve, in particular because of the nonlinear objective function modeling the system reliability. This problem did not receive much attention yet. Consequently, rare are the effective resolution methods that are offered to the user. We thus developed heuristics and an exact method based on a branch and bound procedure, which we apply to various system configurations. We compare the obtained results, and we evaluate the best method to be used in various situations. Keywords: Selective; maintenance; Reliability; Combinatorial; optimization; Branch; and; bound; Tabu; search (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:197:y:2009:i:3:p:1166-1177 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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