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Optimal Redundancy Allocation of Multi-State Systems with Genetic Algorithms

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Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

    Zhigang Tian

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

    Ming J Zuo

  3. School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China

    Hong-Zhong Huang

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Tian, Z., Zuo, M.J., Huang, HZ. (2007). Optimal Redundancy Allocation of Multi-State Systems with Genetic Algorithms. In: Levitin, G. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37368-1_6

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