A LITERATURE REVIEW ON RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATION AND GENETIC ALGORITHM

ABSTRACT

A literature review or narrative review is a type of review article. A literature review is a scholarly paper, which includes the current knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources, and do not report new or original experimental work. Most often associated with academic-oriented literature, such reviews are found in academic journals, and are not to be confused with book reviews that may also appear in the same publication. Literature reviews are a basis for research in nearly every academic field. A narrow-scope literature review may be included as part of a peer-reviewed journal article presenting new research, serving to situate the current study within the body of the relevant literature and to provide context for the reader. In such a case, the review usually precedes the methodology and results sections of the work. Literature review of the present research provides some insights into the previous work in the field of Reliability Optimization and Genetic Algorithm. In the existing literature, reliability optimization problems are classified into three categories according to the types of decision variables. These are reliability allocation, redundancy allocation and reliability redundancy allocation. If the component reliabilities are the only variables, then the problem is called reliability allocation.

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