Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the realistic problem of source maintenance scheduling (SMS) based on reliability criterion. A novel effective optimization technique is proposed to solve the problem at hand. Design/methodology/approach – The problem has been formulated as a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the maintenance management problems of generating units under the reliability criterion. Design/methodology/approach – The problem has been formulated as a combinatorial optimization task, with explicit and simultaneous treatment of multiple...