Birnbaum importance based heuristics for multi-type component assignment problems

This paper proposes a new type of system reliability design problem, namely, the multi-type component assignment problem (MCAP). The MCAP is to assign more than one type of components to positions in a system with the objective of maximizing system reliability. Each type of components has multiple units, and a unit of a particular type can be assigned to a position of the same type in the system. We present the Birnbaum-importance based local...