| Article ID: | iaor1989497 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 807 |
| End Page Number: | 816 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1989 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Boland Philip J., Proschan Frank, Tong Y.L. |
The authors introduce the notion of comparison of the criticality of two nodes in a coherent system, and develop a monotonicity property of the reliability function under component pairwise rearrangement. They use this property to find the optimal component arrangenent. Worked examples illustrate the methods proposed.