In recent years, the semiconductor supply chain has experienced dramatic changes, due to
geopolitical tensions and public health events, which have provided insights into supply …

This paper provides an overview of the historical evolution of reliability in the scientific area
of operations research. Historical views and future perspectives are specifically offered with …

In this study a recently introduced algorithm, based on foraging process of butterflies known
as butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) is explored and a modified variant is introduced …

In recent research, the major focus on reliability-redundancy allocation problems has been
on the possibility of using more efficient and effective algorithms to improve convergence …

Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and its related technologies are now becoming the
leading trend in the development of the manufacturing industry. One of the key drivers of …

The redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is one of the most commonly used approaches
for improving the reliability of systems. The present study investigates the most recent variant …

Redundancy-reliability allocation problem (RRAP) is a well-known problem in reliability
area. In general, this problem aims to maximize a system's reliability or minimize a system's …

Reliability–redundancy allocation problem (RRAP), a challenging reliability optimization
problem, aims to optimize the redundancy level and the component reliability …

This paper focuses on a heterogeneous redundancy allocation problem (RAP) for multi-state
series-parallel systems subject to probabilistic common-cause failure and proposes a novel …

In failure-prone systems, it is important to take into considerations all the failure modes of
each component to achieve the optimal system reliability. In this paper, a new series-parallel …