Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering: Evolutionary Techniques in Reliability Analysis and Optimization

✍ Scribed by Way Kuo, Rui Wan (auth.), Dr. Gregory Levitin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 411
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 39
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book covers the recent applications of computational intelligence techniques in reliability engineering. This volume contains a survey of the contributions made to the optimal reliability design literature in the resent years and chapters devoted to different applications of a genetic algorithm in reliability engineering and to combinations of this algorithm with other computational intelligence techniques. Genetic algorithms are one of the most widely used metaheuristics, inspired by the optimization procedure that exists in nature, the biological phenomenon of evolution.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Recent Advances in Optimal Reliability Allocation....Pages 1-36
Multiobjective Metaheuristic Approaches to Reliability Optimization....Pages 37-62
Genetic Algorithm Applications in Surveillance and Maintenance Optimization....Pages 63-99
Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for the Optimization of System Design and Operation....Pages 101-150
New Evolutionary Methodologies for Integrated Safety System Design and Maintenance Optimization....Pages 151-190
Optimal Redundancy Allocation of Multi-State Systems with Genetic Algorithms....Pages 191-214
Intelligent Interactive Multiobjective Optimization of System Reliability....Pages 215-236
Reliability Assessment of Composite Power Systems Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 237-286
Genetic Optimization of Multidimensional Technological Process Reliability....Pages 287-300
Scheduling Multiple-version Programs on Multiple Processors....Pages 301-328
Redundancy Optimization Problems with Uncertain Lifetimes....Pages 329-374
Computational Intelligence Methods in Software Reliability Prediction....Pages 375-398

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Applications of Mathematics; Computational Intelligence