Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering New Metaheuristics Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability

Gregory Levitin, Gregory Levitin9783540373711, 3-540-37371-3, 3-540-33456-4, 3-540-33458-0

This volume contains chapters presenting applications of different metaheuristics (ant colony optimization, great deluge algorithm, cross-entropy method and particle swarm optimization) in reliability engineering. It also includes chapters devoted to cellular automata and support vector machines and different applications of artificial neural networks, a powerful adaptive technique that can be used for learning, prediction and optimization. Several chapters describe different aspects of imprecise reliability and applications of fuzzy and vague set theory.