Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications - Couverture rigide

Kuo, Way; Zhu, Xiaoyan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 111999344X ISBN 13 : 9781119993445

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2012

Synopsis

"Provides a comprehensive introduction to importance measures in reliability and optimization, allowing readers to address real, large-scale problems within various fields effectivelyThe book is divided into five main parts, the first containing background information on the fundamentals of system reliability. The second part introduces importance measures, including: the Birnbaum importance measure; the Barlow-Proschan importance measure; the Fussell-Vesely importance measure; and the Natvig time-dependent lifetime importance measure. This part also covers structure importance measures, importance measures of pairs of components, and generalizations of importance measures. Part three looks at applications. Importance measures in redundancy allocation and fault diagnosis are discussed, along with importance measures in upgrading systems and in operations research. The fourth part covers comparisons of importance measures and importance measures for con/k/n systems. The final part to the book discusses components assignment problems (CAP), including sections on CAP in coherent systems, CAP in con/k/n/ and its variant systems, and heuristics based on the Birnbaum reliability importance for CAP. A full appendix contains acronyms and notation, errors and ambiguities found in the literature. First book to systematically interpret various importance measures in the field of reliability engineering, to investigate the precise relationships among various importance measures, and to present their applications in the areas of reliability, operations research, and optimization Includes extensive coverage, from the early study of reliability importance to the state-of-the-art in network analysis, multistate systems, and applications in modern systems Contains many case studies, examples, illustrations and tables"--

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Way Kuo, City University of Hong Kong
Professor Kuo is President and Distinguished Professor of City University of Hong Kong. He served as Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of Tennessee between 2003 and 2008, and between 2000 and 2003 he held the Wisenbaker Chair of Engineering in Innovation and was the Executive Associate Dean of Engineering at Texas A&M University. Professor Kuo is recipient of the IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and now serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability. He has co-authored six textbooks and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), ad International Academy for Quality. He is a fellow of ASQ, ASA, IEEE, INFORMS and IIE.

Professor Xiaoyan Zhu, University of Tennessee, USA
Professor Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematical programming and operations research, for example Operations Research I (Linear Programming), Inventory Control, Production Planning, and Advanced Nonlinear Programming. Professor Zhu has published several papers related to importance measures, and she is a member of INFORMS, IIE, and IEEE.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 111999344X
• ISBN 13: 9781119993445
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible