Abstract
This paper is concerned with solving a constrained system reliability problem from the literature, which is to maximize a nonlinear reliability function subject to two linear constraints. The variables are positive integers, representing the allocations of the stages. By running on an ordinary personal computer the computer program listed in this paper, the best known solution for a widely-known 15-stage example from the literature was obtained thirteen times among the first eighty candidate solutions of one computer run. The computational results presented in this paper suggest that the computer program listed here can be useful as a model for solving the constrained system reliability problem.
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