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Redundancy Optimization Problems with Uncertain Lifetimes

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Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering

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  1. Institute of Systems Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072, Tianjin, China

    Ruiqing Zhao

  2. Institute of Systems Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072, Tianjin, China

    Wansheng Tang

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  1. Research & Development Division, The Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., 10, 31000, Haifa, Israel

    Gregory Levitin

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Zhao, R., Tang, W. (2007). Redundancy Optimization Problems with Uncertain Lifetimes. 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_11

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