| Article ID: | iaor20052062 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 125 |
| End Page Number: | 129 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Journal: | Chinese Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics |
| Authors: | Tan Zhongfu, Guo Lianzhe, He Yongxiu |
This paper discusses compound systems under a statistical equilibrium state, such as series-parallel system, parallel-series system, voting-series system, stand-by-series system and their combination systems. The optimal design method to define the number of maintainers and redundant units is proposed. The integer programming algorithm in this paper is proved very efficient by many examples.