A bat algorithm for the redundancy allocation problem

作者：Talafuse T P^*; Pohl E A

来源：Engineering Optimization, 2016, 48(5): 900-910.

DOI：10.1080/0305215X.2015.1076402

• bat algorithm
• redundancy allocation
• series-parallel system
• combinatorial optimization

This article uses a recently developed bat algorithm (BA) meta-heuristic optimization method to solve the reliability redundancy allocation problem (RAP). The RAP is a well-known NP-hard problem which has been the subject of much prior work, generally of a restricted form where each component must consist of identical components in parallel to make computations tractable. Meta-heuristic methods overcome this limitation and allow for larger instances to be solved for a more general case where different components can be placed in parallel. The BA has not yet been used in reliability design, as it was a method initially designed for continuous problems. A BA is devised and tested on a well-known suite of problems from the literature. It is shown that the BA is competitive with the best known heuristics for redundancy allocation.

• 出版日期2016-5-3