caa a22 4500 475750535 CHVBK 20180406123522.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1026510617647 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1026510617647 Minimizing the Mean Damage for Parallel-Series Systems with Two Failure Modes [Elektronische Daten] [Vladimir Kirilyuk, James Falk] We address a non-convex optimization problem involving the minimization of the difference between two symmetric functions which are log convex. Specifically we are interested in minimizing the mean system damage of a parallel-series system composed of a maximal number of identical units, each capable of failing in one of two ways. We characterize the solution of the problem, and develop an algorithm to solve large scale versions of it. Numerical results are presented. It is shown that an optimal configuration with n available components may not use all n components. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 optimal redundancy nationallicence integer and non convex optimization nationallicence Kirilyuk Vladimir Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Prospect Academika Glushkova 40, 252207, Kiev, Ukraine aut Falk James Department of Operations Research, The George Washington University, 20052, Washington, DC, USA aut Computational Optimization and Applications Kluwer Academic Publishers 17/2-3(2000-12-01), 301-328 0926-6003 17:2-3<301 2000 17 10589 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026510617647 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026510617647 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kirilyuk Vladimir Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Prospect Academika Glushkova 40, 252207, Kiev, Ukraine aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Falk James Department of Operations Research, The George Washington University, 20052, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Computational Optimization and Applications Kluwer Academic Publishers 17/2-3(2000-12-01), 301-328 0926-6003 17:2-3<301 2000 17 10589 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer