Title :
No special schemes are needed for solving software reliability optimization models
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Southern Colorado Univ., Puebio, CO, USA
fDate :
8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper resolves four previous software reliability optimization models published in this journal (Berman and Ashrafi, 1993). It is shown that a recent optimization software, LINGO, makes it unnecessary to develop special branch and bound or dynamic programming schemes to solve nonlinear reliability optimization models with binary decision variables
Keywords :
dynamic programming; optimisation; software reliability; tree searching; LINGO; binary decision variables; branch and bound; dynamic programming; nonlinear reliability optimization models; optimization software; software reliability optimization models; Clocks; Design optimization; Dynamic programming; Mathematical model; Operations research; Redundancy; Reliability engineering; Software design; Software reliability; Software tools;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on