This paper provides an overview of the historical evolution of reliability in the scientific area
of operations research. Historical views and future perspectives are specifically offered with …

The last decade has seen a considerable growth in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for
operations management with the aim of finding solutions to problems that are increasing in …

Efficient maintenance policies are of fundamental importance in system engineering
because of their fallbacks into the safety and economics of plants operation. When the …

Critical infrastructure systems are important for continuous functioning of the modern society.
This paper proposes a model for developing infrastructure resilience improvement strategy …

In this paper we present an optimization approach based on the combination of a Genetic
Algorithms maximization procedure with a Monte Carlo simulation. The approach is applied …

When attempting to optimize the design of engineered systems, the analyst is frequently
faced with the demand of achieving several targets (eg low costs, high revenues, high …

Sustainable construction is critical to the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC)
industry. The consideration and selection of optimal building components is necessary in …

This book illustrates a number of modelling and computational techniques for addressing
relevant issues in reliability and risk analysis. In particular, it provides: i) a basic illustration of …

The management of spare parts is a major concern for several industrial organizations, due
to the significant amount of resources invested every year for holding spares inventories. In …

In most of the industries, classical reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is employed to
decide the maintenance strategies using reliability data without having adequate interaction …