Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering

• Recent Advances in Optimal Reliability Allocation.- Multiobjective Metaheuristic Approaches to Reliability Optimization.- Genetic Algorithm Applications in Surveillance and Maintenance Optimization.- Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for the Optimization of System Design and Operation.- New Evolutionary Methodologies for Integrated Safety System Design and Maintenance Optimization.- Optimal Redundancy Allocation of Multi-State Systems with Genetic Algorithms.- Intelligent Interactive Multiobjective Optimization of System Reliability.- Reliability Assessment of Composite Power Systems Using Genetic Algorithms.- Genetic Optimization of Multidimensional Technological Process Reliability.- Scheduling Multiple-version Programs on Multiple Processors.- Redundancy Optimization Problems with Uncertain Lifetimes.- Computational Intelligence Methods in Software Reliability Prediction.

From the reviews: "This book is the first volume which covers ... metaheuristic approaches in multiobjective reliability optimization and application of genetic algorithms in reliability optimization. ... the reviewer would like to recommend this book to all reliability researchers to have a serious look at the material presented in the book and to reliability post graduate engineering students and mathematicians. ... would like to congratulate the editor for compiling a voluminous 'repository of the current and cutting edge computational intelligent techniques in reliability analysis and optimization'." (Krishna B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 4 (3), 2008)