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On the Allocation of Redundancies in Series and Parallel Systems

Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods · 2010 · 22 citations · 18 references

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Concepts

ManagementOperations ManagementInventory ControlParallel ComputingSchedulingRedundancy ManagementRedundancy PlanningStructural RedundancyActive RedundancyOptimal AllocationOptimal Resource AllocationRedundancy AllocationRedundancy PlacementSeries-parallel RedundancyStandby RedundancySystem Redundancy

Abstract

This article studies allocation of two nonidentical standby redundancies in series and parallel systems. The optimal allocation of two available standby (active) redundancies which are related to the bolstered working components, is also discussed.

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