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AN EFFICIENT HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR DETERMINING OPTIMAL REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION OF COMPLEX NETWORKS
Kumar Pardeep * and Chaturvedi D.K. **
Institute of Instrumentation Engineering, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, - 136 119, India Fax: +91 1744 - 238 277, 238 191, 238 035. E-mail: pardeep_kuk@rediifmail.com*, dhiraj_chaturvedi@yahoo.co.in** "Corresponding author
Pahuja G.L.
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra - 136 119, India Fax: +91 1744 238 050, E-mail: pahuja_gl@yahoo.co.in
ABSTRACT
The paper presents a new heuristic algorithm for determining optimal redundancy allocation of complex networks. The present algorithm is an iterative method; all the paths of the network are first arranged in decreasing order of their priority determined using a path sensitivity factor, the highest priority path is optimized first by adding redundant components for subsystems of the path iteratively based on proposed subsystem selection factor. In case of availability of any residual resources next lower priority paths are considered for redundancy allocation. The proposed algorithm not only demonstrates improved performance in comparison with most of the existing heuristic algorithms but also leaves minimum slack of components without any further possibility of redundancy.
Keywords: constrained redundancy optimization; complex networks; heuristic algorithm.
1. INTRODUCTION
The problem of redundancy allocation generally has been solved as a single objective optimization problem to maximize system reliability subject to several constraints such as cost, weight, volume, etc. The solutions of such optimization problems have been obtained using mathematical models like dynamic programming [1-3], heuristic methods [4-23] and meta-heuristics such as genetic algorithms [24-26], tabu search [27], ant colony optimization [28], etc.
In recent works, major focus is on the development of heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms for redundancy allocation problems to improve system reliability [4, 29]. Many heuristic algorithms have been proposed in the literature for solving redundancy reliability optimization problems which search for the solutions not only in feasible regions but also do excursion in infeasible/bounded infeasible regions for finding possibly improved solutions [30-
32]. For example, Shi method [19] searches solution only in feasible region and shows good temporal efficiency. The Nakagawa -Nakashima (N-N) method [15] also search solution in the feasible region and is superior to other heuristics in terms of optimality rates and relative errors, but have poor temporal efficiency [4,29]. The Agarwal - Gupta (A-G) algorithm [32] is the one of the recent methods for solving redundancy optimization of complex combinatorial problems and allows the search for optimal solution not only in the feasible region but also into the bounded infeasible region. Recently, Kumar et al. [22,23] presented heuristic algorithms which shows better performance.
The purpose of this paper is to present an efficient heuristic algorithm for determining optimal redundancy allocation of complex systems. The proposed algorithm [P-Alg] consists of: arranging all the path sets of the network in the decreasing order of path sensitivity factor value and then selecting the highest priority path set for redundancy allocation. A redundant parallel subsystem is added to the unsaturated subsystem of the chosen path set having maximum value of subsystem selection factor, if no constraints are violated. In case of violation of any constraint, the subsystem is excluded from further consideration and the next subsystem of the path set having highest value of subsystem selection factor is considered for redundancy allocation. The path is removed only after exhausting all the subsystems of the path set. The proposed algorithm not only demonstrates improved performance in comparison with most of the existing heuristic algorithms but it also leaves minimum slack of components without any further possibility of redundancy. The P-Alg not only utilizes a different formulation for subsystem selection factor but it also differs significantly from Kumar [22] the way the path sets are removed from further consideration in case of violation of any constraints.
The computational experiments are conducted on 4-, 5-, 7-, 10- and 15-unit complex systems with linear constraints. The numerical results obtained with P-Alg, Kumar [22], Shi [19], N-N [15] and A-G [31] methods are compared in terms of performance measures like average relative error (A), maximum relative error (M), optimality rate (O) and average execution time (T) [22, 30,31].
2. PROBLEM FORMULATION
2.1 Assumptions:
1. There are n subsystems in the system.
2. The system and subsystems are coherent. The subsystem structure is not restricted.
3. Subsystem states are mutually and statistically independent.
4. Constraints are separable and additive among components. Each constraint is an increasing function of xt for the subsystem.
5. Redundant components can not cross subsystem boundaries.
2.2 Problem Definition:
A complex system consists of several components connected to each other neither in series nor in parallel. Figs. 1-5 show 5 such complex systems for 4-, 5-, 7-, 10- & 15- unit networks respectively. The problem of constrained redundancy optimization can be reduced to the following integer programming problem:
Maximize: Rs (x) (1)
Subject to: £ gj ( x. ) < c j, j = 1,2,..,k
i = 1
xi > 1, for i = 1, 2, ..., n. 3. PROBLEM FORMULATION
3.1 Algorithm
Assuming that the system reliability expression Rs(x) is known (Shi [1]), the proposed algorithm uses following steps for finding the solution.
First of all, unsaturated minimal path sets of the system are arranged in their decreasing order of priority using path sensitivity factor at (x)
nR(Xi) l = 1,2,.., m (2)
a, ( X ) = -
2 2(gi(Xi)/kCj)
iePj j=1 J
From the above ordered set of minimal path sets, path set having highest sensitivity factor- a(X) is considered for optimization and subsystem selection factor bt (x,) of all the unsaturated subsystem is found using
,, , AR,- for eachi e P (3)
bi(x,-) =----l v '
£(gi (Xi)/kCj)
i=1
where AR = R (X ) - Ri (X-1)
AR, is termed as increment in subsystem reliability when a unit is added in parallel to the subsystem. After finding the subsystem having highest value of subsystem selection factor bi (x,) of
the chosen path set, a redundant parallel component is added to the unsaturated subsystem if no constraint is violated. In case of violation of any constraint the subsystem is removed from further consideration for redundancy and the next subsystem of the path set having highest value of subsystem selection factor bt (xt )is considered for redundancy allocation. The iteration continues
either till all the subsystems are removed from further consideration or all the resources are consumed. If all the resources are exactly consumed the iteration stops giving the optimal solution. But in case of all the subsystems of the chosen path set are removed from further consideration and there are still some resources available, the minimal path set having next highest value of sensitivity factor al(X) is considered for optimization and then the steps are repeated till optimal solution is reached.
3.2 Steps of the Proposed Algorithm
Step1: Find all minimal path sets P/ (for all l = 1,2,...,m.) of the system using any method. Step2: Let x, = 1 for all i; i = 1, 2,., n such that X = (1, 1,., 1)
Step3: All unsaturated minimal path sets Pl (for all l = 1,2,.,m.) of the system are arranged in
their decreasing order of priority Ps using sensitivity factor at (X). Step4: The path set [PPs(Q)](Q = 1) is selected for optimization.
Step5: For the above chosen path set, calculate bi (x) for all the subsystems of the path set and
find i such that bi* (x) = max [bi (x)]. Step6: Check, by adding one redundant unit to unsaturated subsystem i :
i. if no constraints are violated, add one redundant subsystem to unsaturated subsystem i by replacing x.* with x.*+\ and go to step 5.
ii. if at least one constraint is exactly satisfied and others are not violated, then add one redundant subsystem to unsaturated subsystem i by replacing x * with x.*+1.
The x* = x is the optimal solution. Go to step 7.
iii. if at least one constraint is violated then exclude the subsystem i from further consideration and the next subsystem i of the same path set having highest value bj* (xi) is considered for redundancy allocation, go to step 6.
iv. if at least one constraint is violated and all other subsystems of the path [PPs(Q)] are excluded; exclude the path [PPs(Q)] from further consideration; consider the next path [PPs(Q+i)] having next highest value of at (X) and go to step 5.
v. if all the subsystems and/or all the minimal path sets are excluded from further consideration, than x* = X is the optimal solution; go to step 7.
Step7: Calculate the system reliability, Rs (x*).
4. COMPUTATION AND RESULT
The redundancy allocation problem for complex systems is formulated with the objective of maximization of the system reliability under constraint environment. In this paper, the test problems of computational experiments are generated for 4-, 5-, 7-, 10- and 15- unit complex networks shown in Figs. 1-5 respectively. As an illustration of P-Alg method two sets of bench mark examples consisting of 4- unit composite network (Fig. 1) and 5-unit bridge network (Fig. 2) with linear constraints are considered. The same examples are also solved by Kumar, Shi, N-N and A-G methods for comparison.
Example 1: 4-unit composite network (Fig. 1) with linear constraints (n = 4 and k = 2). The constraint redundancy optimization problem is expressed as the following integer programming problem:
1
Max. Rs ( x)
Figure 1. 4-Unit Composite Network R,( Xi)+Qi( Xi) R2( x2) R4 ( X4)
+ Qi( X,) R2( X2WÁ x3)Q4( X4)
(4)
4
Subject to: Z c1i ( xt ) < 132
i = 1 4
Z c2i(Xi) < 341
i=1 (5)
Xt > 1, for i = 1, 2, 3, 4.
L( x) = (1, 1, 1, 1), U ( x) = (6, 1, 13, 4)
The problem is solved for P-Alg, Kumar, Shi, N-N and A-G methods with the randomly generated values of parameters ri, c1i} c2i, C¡ and C2 shown in Table 1. It is interesting to note that all the methods yield same solution x*= (3, 1, 2, 1) for Rs(x*) = 0.989612, which is also the global optima. The time taken by P-Alg (0.00413 sec.) is comparable with Kumar (0.00342 sec.) and Shi (0.00264 sec.) methods and is much smaller than N-N (0.01963 sec.) and A-G (0.90486 sec.) methods.
Table 1. Data for Figure 1
I 1 2 3 4
ri 0.6984 0.625 0.8464 0.7536
Cli 2 64 3 4
C2i 48 74 23 74
Ci 132
C2 341
Example 2: 5-unit complex network (Fig. 2) with linear constraint (n = 5 and k = 1). The problem is defined as:
Figure 2. 5-Unit Bridge Network
Xi) R2( x2) + R3( X3) R4( x4)(öi( xi)
+ R1( x1 )Q2 ( x2)) Maximise RS(X) = 1V lA^2V 2"
+ Rl (xi )Q2 (x2 )Q3 (x3 )R4 (x4 )R5 (x5 )
+ Ql (xi )R2 (x2 )R (x3 )Q4 (x4 )R5 (x5 )
Subject to: | c 1 i (x,. ) < 290
i = 1
xt > 1, for i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. L( x) = (1, 1, 1, 1, 1), U ( x) = (4, 146, 19, 3, 5)
(6)
(7)
The problem is solved for all the above methods with randomly generated values of parameters given in Table 2.
Table 2. Data for Figure 2
i 1 2 3 4 5
ri 0.8106 0.6940 0.6974 0.8068 0.633 1
Cli 45 1 8 56 35
Ci 290
The results obtained for x*, g'1(x*), Rs (x)and T with various methods are compared in Table 3.
From the table it is evident that P-Alg and A-G methods obtain best optimal solution x* = (4, 11, 1, 1, 1) for Rs (x)= 0.999546 without any slack of components, but the execution time of P-Alg is
much lower than that of A-G. The A-G method takes more time by an order of 25 in comparison with P-Alg method. Though both Shi and N-N methods also do not leave any slack of components but their solution quality is inferior in comparison with P-Alg and A-G methods. Although, Kumar
method takes minimum execution time but the quality of solution is poorest of all and it leaves maximum slack of components. To illustrate the working of different iterations of the algorithm, an example of 7- unit bridge network (Fig. 3(a)) has been solved for random generated data set in Appendix B.
Table 3. Comparison of Figure 2 Complex Network
Methods x* gi(x*) Rs(x*) T (sec.)
P-Alg (4,11,1,1,1) 290 0.999546 0.04992
Kumar (3,7,3,1,1) 257 0.999293 0.00326
Shi (2,61,6,1,1) 290 0.997432 0.24205
N-N (3,16,6,1,1) 290 0.999514 0.05007
A-G (4,11,1,1,1) 290 0.999546 1.26784
5. PERFORMANCE MEASURES
In addition to the above, each of the n = 4- and 5- unit (Fig. 1 and 2 respectively) complex networks is further solved for 9 additional sets of randomly generated parameters r, cji and Cj for
the comparison of performance measures of different methods.
The performance in terms of computational efficiency and solution quality of P-Alg, Kumar, Shi, N-N and A-G methods, defined as u =1, 2, 3, 4, 5 respectively, is illustrated with number of examples. The test problems of computational experiments are generated for 4-, 5-, 7-, 10-, and 15-unit examples of complex systems (shown in Figs. 1- 5) used by Kumar [22, 23] with linear constraints. The algorithms of different methods for the test problems are compared through performance measures such as average relative error (Au), maximum relative error (Mu), optimality rate (Ou) and average execution time (T) for ten randomly generated initial data (v = 1, 2, ...., 10), defined as:
Average relative error for method u,
Au = J-zR -Ruv)/R* (8)
10 v=1
where
Ruv is system reliability obtained by method u for test problem v; and R* is the best system
reliability obtained by any of the four methods or by complete enumeration for the test problem v.
Maximum Relative Error for method u,
Mu = max{(RR -RUv)/R*}
v (9)
Optimality rate for method u, Ou = number of times (out of 10 problems) method u yields the best system reliability.
T is average execution time of 10 test problems (sec.)
Following section illustrate the solution of 3 complex networks (Figs. 3-5). For n = 7 (Fig. 3(a))
network, 4 problems are formed by taking two constraints k = 1, 5 and two different values of parameter Cj as 'small and 'large' defined as
{ Cj } = wj * 2 n= 1 g' (10)
here Wj denotes random uniform deviates from 1.5 to 2.5 for 'small', and from 2.5 to 3.5 for 'large'. Data for the parameters of the problems are generated randomly by taking {gj (xt)} a random
uniform deviates from 0 to 100 and random uniform deviates {r } from 0.6 to- 0.85. Another n = 7
(Fig. 3(b)), 10- (Figs 4) and 15- (Figs 5) unit networks are solved for two different data sets of parameters k = 5, Cj = 'small' and k = 5, Cj = 'large'. Thus, in total 12 test problems are solved for 6 different networks (Figs. 1-5) with various methods using MATLAB on a Pentium(R) D, 3.4 GHz CPU based computer. Each of the test problems is then solved for 10 randomly generated data sets for r, cn and Cj.
To obtain optimal solutions, P-Alg, Kumar and Shi methods use single initial solution (1, 1,..., 1) whereas A-G method uses 10 initial solutions generated randomly by a 2-phase procedure of Kim and Yum [30]. For N-N method, each problem is solved by taking initial solution (1, 1, ..., 1) and 10 values of the balancing coefficient a as 0.1, 0.2,.., 1.0. Thus, out of 10 such solutions obtained by N-N and A-G methods best solution is selected for comparison with other methods. Thus in total 1320 test problems are solved (120 test problems by P-Alg, Kumar and Shi methods and 1200 test problems by N-N and A-G methods).
- 1 - — 2 - 3—1
in
4
l-Œh-Œ— -m—
Figure 3(a). 7-Unit Complex System (n = 7)
Figure 3(b). 7-Unit Complex System (n = 7)
Figure 4. 10-Unit Complex System (n = 10)
Figure 5. 15-Unit Complex System (n = 15)
The results of performance measures, i.e., average relative error (A), maximum relative error (M), optimality rate (O) and average execution time (T) obtained with P-Alg, Kumar, Shi, N-N, and A-G methods, are compared in Table 4. The performance measures A, M and O of P-Alg are consistently better than all other methods, except in case of 4,7x5-'large' and 8,10x5- 'small' network examples where N-N method shows better performance. The average execution time (T) of P-Alg is also better or comparable with Kumar in most of the cases.
Table 4. Comparison of Performance Measures for 4-, 5-, 7-, 10-, 15-Unit Networks (Fig. 1-5 respectively)
Example (m, n x k) Methods Performance Measures
A M O T (sec.)
3, 4 x 2 Figure 1 P-Alg 0 0 10 0.06020
Kumar 0.000353 0.00186 5 0.053242
Shi 0.000344 0.00186 6 0.27828
N-N 9.5E-06 9.5E-05 9 0.02385
A-G 0.000296 0.00173 1 12.38190
4, 5 x 1 Figure 2 P-Alg 4E-07 4E-06 9 0.04992
Kumar 0.001382 0.003364 1 0.003262
Shi 0.003845 0.007585 0 0.24205
N-N 3.6E-06 3.6E-05 9 0.05007
A-G 0.000593 0.002059 2 1.26784
4, 7 x 1 'small' Figure 3(a) P-Alg 7.95E-05 0.000795 9 0.05076
Kumar 0.001152 0.004727 2 0.05165
Shi 0.048417 0.182504 0 0.98615
N-N 0.000486 0.003217 8 0.08194
A-G 0.003395 0.010776 0 33.03050
4, 7 x 5 'small' Figure 3(a) P-Alg 0 0 10 0.05164
Kumar 0.003966 0.010224 4 0.050893
Shi 0.011981 0.06485 3 0.61064
N-N 0.000895 0.005394 8 0.05421
A-G 0.001741 0.009337 1 7.80162
4, 7 x 1 'large' Figure 3(a) P-Alg 0 0 10 0.04938
Kumar 0.000217 0.000444 0 0.05124
Shi 0.005614 0.025473 0 1.41909
N-N 2.6E-06 1.4E-05 8 0.14222
A-G 0.000112 0.000215 0 14.51660
4, 7 x 5 'large' Figure 3(a) P-Alg 0.008177 0.021486 4 0.04226
Kumar 0.001184 0.004195 0 0.05186
Shi 0.005277 0.019515 0 1.07131
N-N 0.000274 0.000788 5 0.09980
A-G 0.000436 0.001459 1 8.62698
6, 7 x 5 'small' Figure 3(b) P-Alg 0 0 10 0.05200
Kumar 0.006507 0.015626 0 0.03064
Shi 0.012012 0.040473 0 0.66712
N-N 0.005372 0.008265 0 0.05283
A-G 0.004888 0.00917 0 12.40320
6, 7 x 5 'large' Figure 3(b) P-Alg 0.001255 0.010007 8 0.05080
Kumar 0.000235 0.001405 0 0.05107
Shi 0.000231 0.001419 0 1.16433
N-N 3.22E-05 0.000131 2 0.09677
A-G 9.84E-05 0.000724 0 13.93550
8, 10 x 5 'small' Figure 4 P-Alg 0.01371 0.058709 3 0.04383
Kumar 0.010458 0.058121 5 0.05611
Shi 0.043408 0.080705 0 1.95416
N-N 0.001176 0.010479 7 0.15770
A-G 0.005039 0.013028 0 3.62803
Example Performance Measures
(m, n x k) iviemous A M O T (sec.)
P-Alg 0.003071 0.02704 8 0.04433
8, 10 x 5 Kumar 0.02487 0.041681 1 0.05511
'large' Shi 0.044704 0.080265 0 1.95288
Figure 4 N-N 0.015437 0.038307 0 0.15536
A-G 0.014913 0.038306 1 14.09680
P-Alg 0 0 10 0.04407
8, 15 x 5 Kumar 0.041613 0.064621 0 0.08765
'small' Shi 0.088131 0.174326 0 3.70830
Figure 5 N-N 0.033755 0.059137 0 1.08656
A-G 0.037845 0.059135 0 15.34900
P-Alg 0 0 10 0.05097
8, 15 x 5 Kumar 0.067226 0.091703 0 0.08684
'large' Shi 0.112797 0.178473 0 3.65437
Figure 5 N-N 0.059578 0.07733 0 1.07747
A-G 0.063573 0.077328 0 62.50630
CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, an efficient heuristic algorithm for determining optimal redundancy allocation of complex systems has been proposed. It has been shown that quality of solution in P-Alg is better than all other methods in most of the cases. The computational time of P-Alg is either better or comparable with Kumar and Shi methods. The method also leaves minimum slack of components without any further possibility of redundancy. Therefore, the P-Alg method finds its greater utility for solving redundancy allocation problems where both the solution quality and computational time are of prime importance.
APPENDIX A
Notation
a(X) Sensitivity factor of lth minimal path set
bi(Xi) Subsystem selection factor for ith subsystem with xi components
cji Cost of subsystem i for kth constraint.
Cj Total amount of resource j available
gj ( Xi ) Amount of resources-/' consumed in subsystem-i with xi components
k Number of constraints, j = 1, 2,., k
L( x) (L , L ,..., Lx ) , Lower limit of each of subsystem i,
m Number of minimal path sets, l = 1, 2,., m
n Number of subsystems, i = 1, 2,., n
P Ith minimal path set of the system
Ps (ll,l2, ...,rin): priority vector s.t. l1 and lmm are the number of minimal path sets respectively having
maximum and minimum value of path selection parameter al(X).
Q (x ) Unreliability of subsystem i with xi components.
r Reliability of a component at subsystem i.
R(x) Reliability of subsystem i with x, components.
Rr Residual resources Cj-Ycifi
Rs ( x ) System reliability
T Average execution time of 10 test problems (sec.)
U ( x) (U , Uxi,..., Ux ), Upper limit of each of subsystem i,
x0 Initial feasible solution
* x Optimal solution
xi Number of components in subsystem i; i = 1,2,..n
X (xb.........xJ
a Balancing coefficient for N-N method
APPENDIX B
This section presents how the P-Alg is applied for constraint redundancy reliability optimization problem of a 7- unit bridge network with n = 7, k = 1 (Fig. 3(a)) for data given in Table 5 and the procedure is illustrated below:
Table 5. Data for Figure 3(a)
i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
ri 0.7321 0.6109 0.7963 0.7013 0.6247 0.7104 0.6631
Cli 54 48 95 24 68 9 99
Ci 794
Illustration
Stepl: Initialize i = 7, m =4, k=1, ri = [0.7321, 0.6109, 0.7963, 0.7013, 0.6247, 0.7104,
0.6631], cu = [54, 48, 95, 24, 68, 9, 99], R = Cj = 794, and P/ (for l = 1, 2, 3, 4.) of the system are P1 = [1, 2, 3], P2 = [1, 4, 7], P3 = [5, 6, 7] and P4 = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6] .
Step2: Let xt = 1 for all i; i = 1, 2,...,7 i.e X = (1,1,1,1,1,1,1) and for this value of X, Rr = 397.
Step3: The sensitivity factor al(X) i.e. [au a* as, CI4] = [1.435, 1.527, 1.328 0.493], hence, Ps = [2, 1, 3, 4].
Step4: The path set [PPs(Q)](Q = 1) = [PPs(1)] = P2 is selected for optimization.
Step5: For P2 all values of b1 (x) for each i €P2 = [10.765, 23.201, 5.318] {l =1,4,7), i*= 4 as b4(x4) = 23.201 is the maximum.
Step6(i): By incrementing x4 = x4 +1, X = (1,1,1,2,1,1,1) and Rr= 373 (i.e. a +ve number), no constraints is violated.
Step5: For P2, bt (x,) = [10.765, 6.930, 5.318] {t =1,4,7), i*= 1 as b1(x1) = 10.765,
Step6(i): Increment x4 = x4 +1, X = (2,1,1,2,1,1,1) and Rr = 319, no constraint is violated. Repeat the Step5 and
Step6(i) untilX = (3,1,1,4,1,1,3) and Rr = 19, b, (x) = [0.773, 0.618, 0.604] (i =1,4,7), i*= 1 as b1(x1) = 0.773 is the maximum.
Step6(ii): Increment x1 = x1 +1, X = (4,1,1,4,1,1,3) and Rr = -35, constraint is violated, X is reinstated at its previous step value i.e. (3,1,1,4,1,1,3), subsystem i = 1 of P2 is removed from further consideration, and bi (xi) = [--, 0.618, 0.604] (i =1,4,7), next highest value of bi (x) is b4(x4) = 0.618 for i*= 4.
Step6(ii): Increment x4 = x4 +1, X = (3,1,1,4,1,1,3) and Rr = -5, constraint is violated, X is reinstated at its previous step value i.e. (3,1,1,4,1,1,3), subsystem i = 4 of P2 is removed from further consideration, and bi (xi) = [--, --, 0.604] (i =1,4,7), next highest value of bi (x,) is b7(x7) = 0.604 i = 7. Repeat the Step6 until all the subsystems of path P2 are removed from further consideration and X = (3, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 3), bi (xi) = [--, --, --] (i =1,4,7), al(X)
1.e. [d, a2, as, a4] = [1.435, ++, 1.328 0.493].
Step6(iii) Q = Q +1, PPs(Q)](Q = 2) = [PPs(2)] = P1, for P1 all values of bi (xi) for each i € P1 = [--, 10.105, 6.555](i =1,2,3), as subsystem i = 1 has already been optimized hence not considered further.
Step5: The next highest value of bi (xi) is b2(x2) = 10.105 for i = 2.
Step6: By repetitively checking the various conditions for the sub steps in similar manners as described above, it is found that there is no possible of redundancy for any of the subsystem of the path set P1, hence all the subsystems the path set are removed from further consideration, hence the path set is removed. X = (3,1,1,4,1,1,3), bi (xi) = [--, --, --] (i =1,2,3), al(X) i.e. [d, a2, as, a4] = [++, ++, 1.328 0.493].
Step6(iii) Q = Q +1, PpS(Q)](Q = 3) = [Pps(3)] = P3, for P3 all values of bt (xi) for each i € P3 = [7.294, 62.673, -- ](i =5,6,7), as subsystem i = 7 has already been optimized hence not considered further.
This way, the above Step5 and Step6 are again repeated for the selected path set P3 until all the subsystems and/or all the minimal path sets are excluded from further consideration, till optimal solution x* = X = (3,1,1,4,1,3,3) is obtained for Rr = 1. All the intermediate steps and the values of different parameter during different steps are given in Table 6.
Step7: System reliability, Rs (x ) = 0.971495 is determined for the optimal solution x* = X = (3, 1, 1, 4, 1, 3, 3) and T = 0.05076 sec.
Table 6. Procedure of P-Alg for Figure 3 Complex Network
Allocation Residual resources Minimal path set sensitivity factor Components selection factor
(Xj, X2, X3, x4,x5, x6, x7) C-Tex (aj a2 a3 Ü4) (bi b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 bi)
1,1,1,1,1,1,1 397 1.435 1.527" 1.328 0.493 10.765 23.201* 5.318
1,1,1,2,1,1,1 373 10.765* 6.930 5.318
2,1,1,2,1,1,1 319 2.884 6.930* 5.318
2,1,1,3,1,1,1 295 2.884 2.070 5.318*
2,1,1,3,1,1,2 196 2.884* 2.070 1.792
3,1,1,3,1,1,2 142 0.773 2.070* 1.792
3,1,1,4,1,1,2 118 0.773 0.618 1.792*
3,1,1,4,1,1,3 19 0.773* 0.618 0.604
4,1,1,4,1,1,3 -35$ -- 0.618* 0.604
3,1,1,5,1,1,3 -5$ -- -- 0.604*
3,1,1,4,1,1,4 -80$ -- -- --
3,1,1,4,1,1,3 19 1.435" ++ 1.328 0.493 -- 10.105* 6.655 -- --
3,2,1,4,1,1,3 -29$ -- -- 6.655* -- --
3,1,2,4,1,1,3 -76$ -- -- -- -- --
3,1,1,4,1,1,3 -19$ ++ ++ 1.328" 0.493 -- -- -- -- 7.294 62.673* --
3,1,1,4,1,2,3 10 -- -- -- 7.294 18.150* --
3,1,1,4,1,3,3 1 -- -- -- -- 7.294* 5.256 --
3,1,1,4,2,3,3 -67$ -- -- -- -- 5.256* --
3,1,1,4,1,3,3 1 ++ ++ ++ 0.493% -- -- -- -- -- -- --
++
This minimal path set has the highest value of the sensitivity factor. A redundant component is to be added to this subsystem for highest selection factor. Constraint violation.
Subsystem is removed from further consideration. Minimal path set removed from further consideration.
All the subsystems of the path have already been optimized, hence no further possibility of redundancy.
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