Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering: New Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability (Hardcover, 2007)

The Ant Colony Paradigm for Reliable Systems Design.- Modified Great Deluge Algorithm versus Other Metaheuristics in Reliability Optimization.- Applications of the Cross-Entropy Method in Reliability.- Particle Swarm Optimization in Reliability Engineering.- Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation for Network Reliability and Availability Assessment.- Network Reliability Assessment through Empirical Models using a Machine Learning Approach.- Neural Networks for Reliability-Based Optimal Design.- Software Reliability Predictions using Artificial Neural Networks.- Computation Intelligence in Online Reliability Monitoring.- Imprecise Reliability: An Introductory Overview.- Posbist Reliability Theory for Coherent Systems.- Analyzing Fuzzy System Reliability Based on the Vague Set Theory.- Fuzzy Sets in the Evaluation of Reliability.- Grey Differential Equation GM(1,1) Models in Repairable System Modeling.