 An efficient simulated annealing algorithm for the redundancy allocation problem with a choice of redundancy strategiesAmirhossain Chambari, Amir Abbas Najafi, Seyed Habib A. Rahmati and Aida Karimi Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2013, vol. 119, issue C, 158-164 Abstract: The redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is an important reliability optimization problem. This paper studies a specific RAP in which redundancy strategies are chosen. To do so, the choice of the redundancy strategies among active and cold standby is considered as decision variables. The goal is to select the redundancy strategy, component, and redundancy level for each subsystem such that the system reliability is maximized. Since RAP is a NP-hard problem, we propose an efficient simulated annealing algorithm (SA) to solve it. In addition, to evaluating the performance of the proposed algorithm, it is compared with well-known algorithms in the literature for different test problems. The results of the performance analysis show a relatively satisfactory efficiency of the proposed SA algorithm. Keywords: Reliability optimization; Series–parallel systems; Redundancy strategies; Simulated annealing algorithm (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:reensy:v:119:y:2013:i:c:p:158-164 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.05.016 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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