Acronym

PENED

Title

System Reliability and Related Problems

Programme

Research and Development Programme of the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT)

Contract no

95ED2.2-692

Start: January 1996 End: December 1998
Duration 24 months

Financial Data

Total Budget

8.000.000 DRA
GSRT Contribution 8.000.000 DRA

Description

Key Words

Reliability System, Parallel Queues, Optimal Repair Policies, Statistical Hypothesis Tests.

Summary

The aim of the project is to develop the optimal repair allocation policy for systems consisting of highly reliable components, and the optimal policy to the corresponding routing and scheduling problems. The model has application in manufacturing, where the customers might be machines and the serves might be an automatic guided vehicle or a tool change operator. In computer applications, customers might be users, and the server might be shared computer or file server. The customers could be processors contending for shared memory or shared bus in a parallel-processing context. In communications, a local area network or bus might share several users.

 

Participants

Main Contractors

Full Name

Country

University of Athens

Greece

Technical University of Crete

Greece