Achieving System Reliability with the Fewest Identical Components
Benedict Nmah *
Department of Mathematics, Morehouse College, 830 Westview Drive, S.W., Atlanta, GA 30314, USA.
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Abstract
Generally, redundancy allocation problems are NP-hard. This paper presents an explicit polynomially bounded algorithm for a special class of redundancy allocation models.
Keywords: NP-hard, polynomially bounded algorithms, redundancy allocation, discrete optimization models