"Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications" by Way Kuo and Xiaoyan Zhu

Published by Wiley on June 2012, Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk, and Optimization: Principles and Applications, 440 pp. is the only book in the market that systematically addresses importance measures on reliability design, maintenance, fault diagnosis, risk analysis, uncertainty analysis, and local and global sensitivity analysis. The concept of importance measures finds broad implications and we believe that the importance-measure based methods are among the most practical decision tools. The book covers not only the early work in importance measures since 1960s but also the most recent work up to 2012, investigating the precise relationships among various importance measures, generalizing the importance measures into non-coherent systems, multistate systems, continuum systems, repairable systems, etc., and providing a comprehensive view on modeling and combining importance measures with other design tools to solve many real-world, large-scale decision-making problems.

The author, Prof. Way Kuo, is a member of US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He has co-authored six textbooks and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability. The co-author, Dr. Xiaoyan Zhu, is an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Inspired by this book, we hope that readers can develop feasible, effective methods for solving various open-ended problems in their research and practical work.

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