This book presents original studies describing the latest research and
developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering. It
helps the reader identifying gaps in the current knowledge and presents
fruitful areas for further research in the field. Among others, this
book covers reliability measures, reliability assessment of multi-state
systems, optimization of multi-state systems, continuous multi-state
systems, new computational techniques applied to multi-state systems and
probabilistic and non-probabilistic safety assessment.