A note on solving a system reliability problem involving nonlinear constraints
Abstract This paper is concerned with maximizing a system reliability function subject to nonlinear constraints. Numerical examples from the literature are handled by a general nonlinear programming algorithm, which can deal with the positive-integer variables of this reliability problem without special difficulties. The computational results presented in this paper suggest that the computer program listed here can be useful as a model for maximizing the system reliability function subject to the nonlinear constraints used here. In addition, because of the general applicability of the nonlinear programming algorithm, other system reliability functions and nonlinear constraints different from the ones used in this paper can also be accommodated.