ON THE COMPUTATIONAL-COMPLEXITY OF RELIABILITY REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION IN A SERIES SYSTEM

被引:384
作者
CHERN, MS
机构
[1] Department of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu
关键词
RELIABILITY; REDUNDANCY OPTIMIZATION; KNAPSACK PROBLEM; NP-COMPLETENESS; NP-HARDNESS; GREEDY ALGORITHM;
D O I
10.1016/0167-6377(92)90008-Q
中图分类号
C93 [管理学]; O22 [运筹学];
学科分类号
070105 ; 12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
Finding the optimal redundancy that maximizes the system reliability is one of the important problems in reliability theory. A good deal of effort has been done in this field. In this paper, we prove that some reliability redundancy optimization problems are NP-hard. We also derive alternative proofs for the NP-hardness of some special cases of the knapsack problem.
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页码:309 / 315
页数:7
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