Paper Info
Title
An efficient simulated annealing algorithm for the redundancy allocation problem with a choice of redundancy strategies.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.ress.2013.05.016
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Reliability optimization,Series–parallel systems,Redundancy strategies,Simulated annealing algorithm
Journal
119
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0951-8320
26
0.79
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amirhossain Chambari1712.39
Amir Abbas Najafi215313.32
Seyed Habib A. Rahmati31657.56
Aida Karimi4661.98