Terminal-pair reliability using flow augmenting path search algorithm

  • Choi, Moon-Soo (Department of Industrial Engineering Pohang Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Jun, Chi-Hyuck (Department of Industrial Engineering Pohang Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 1993.04.01

Abstract

This paper considers a reliability problem as a special type of flow problem and presents an algorithm to evaluate the exact 2-terminal reliability of networks by using a backtracking technique. It employs a polygon-to-chain reduction in addition to series and parallel reduction techniques to reduce execution time. In comparisons, it presents a much better performance than other algorithms known to us. We also propose a methodology to apply the algorithm for approximation of the system reliability.

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