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A Multicriteria Decision Model for a Combined Burn-In and Replacement Policy

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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2011)

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This paper considers a multicriteria model for a combined burn-in and replacement process for a simple system comprising a single component from a heterogeneous population, consisting of two sub-populations that possess different failure characteristics. There are several papers that have dealt with mixed distributions. Nevertheless, suitable procedures for dealing with the distinct failure behaviours from these two sub-populations are limited. Furthermore, some combined policies of burn-in and replacement have not achieved consensus on their efficiency. Therefore, we consider a multicriteria model for supporting the decision-maker in a combined burn-in-replacement policy. This model enables the decision-maker to set up a combined burn-in-replacement policy by taking advantage of the broader view provided by a simultaneous evaluation of cost and post-burn-in reliability while also providing the possibility of inserting the decision-maker’s preferences into the model. A case study is used to illustrate some advantages in comparison with results from the classical model (minimum cost).

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  1. School of Engineering, Centre for Technology and Geosciences, Department of Production Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, PE, 5125, CEP: 52.0 70-970, Brazil

    Cristiano Alexandre Virgínio Cavalcante

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Ricardo H. C. Takahashi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208 016, Kanpur, India

    Kalyanmoy Deb

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Centro Federal de Educaçao Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Av. Amazonas 5253, 30421-169, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Elizabeth F. Wanner

  4. Faculty of Economics, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95129, Catania, Italy

    Salvatore Greco

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Cavalcante, C.A.V. (2011). A Multicriteria Decision Model for a Combined Burn-In and Replacement Policy. In: Takahashi, R.H.C., Deb, K., Wanner, E.F., Greco, S. (eds) Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. EMO 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6576. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19893-9_40

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