SELECTION OF THE OPTIMAL VARIANT OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM WITH REDUNDANCY LIMITATIONS

We present a method for finding the optimal variant of a technical system with multivalued realization of the elements with limitations on the number of types of the elements that are used. It is assumed that the initial values are arranged randomly in tables, and that the optimality criterion and the technical limitations are bounded analytic dependences of the tabulated functions. The described method uses a bimonotone decomposition of the target function and all the limiting functions, i.e., their representation in the form of two monotone non-decreasing functions of the sequential numbers of the realizations of the elements.