Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications contains the contributions presented at the 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, June 18-22, 2017).
The book covers a wide range of topics, including:
• Accident and Incident modelling
• Economic Analysis in Risk Management
• Foundational Issues in Risk Assessment and Management
• Human Factors and Human Reliability
• Maintenance Modeling and Applications
• Mathematical Methods in Reliability and Safety
• Prognostics and System Health Management
• Resilience Engineering
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Management
• Simulation for Safety and Reliability Analysis
• Structural Reliability
• System Reliability, and
• Uncertainty Analysis.
Selected special sessions include contributions on: the Marie Skłodowska-Curie innovative training network in structural safety; risk approaches in insurance and fi nance sectors; dynamic reliability and probabilistic safety assessment; Bayesian and statistical methods, reliability data and testing; oganizational factors and safety culture; software reliability and safety; probabilistic methods applied to power systems; socio-technical-economic systems; advanced safety assessment methodologies: extended Probabilistic Safety Assessment; reliability; availability; maintainability and safety in railways: theory & practice; big data risk analysis and management, and model-based reliability and safety engineering.
Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications will be of interest to professionals and academics working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors including: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Automotive Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Production and Distribution, Environmental Engineering, Information Technology and Telecommunications, Critical Infrastructures, Insurance and Finance, Manufacturing, Marine Industry, Mechanical Engineering, Natural Hazards, Nuclear Engineering, Offshore Oil and Gas, Security and Protection, Transportation, and Policy Making.
Prof. Dr. Marko Čepin received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1992, 1995 and 1999, respectively. He was employed at Jožef Stefan Institute in the years from 1992 to 2009. He was invited to Polytechnic University of Valencia in the year 2001. He is a president of Nuclear Society of Slovenia (2010-2014, 2014-2018). He is a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana since 2009. His research interests include energy engineering, power plants and reliability of power systems.
Prof. Ing. Radim Briš, Ph.D. is research worker and university full professor in applied mathematics and technical cybernetics at the VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Applied Mathematics, senior researcher in applied statistics and operational research at the Centrum Excelence IT4Innovations, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, team leader for the Stochastic reliability modelling and risk management group. He currently works as Vice-President of European Safety and Reliability Association, and is member of ESRA Management Board. Previously he spent one year as invited research professor at the Université de Technologie de Troyes, Laboratoire de modélisation et de Sureté des Systemes, France. He also spent 5 years in the position of Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB TU Ostrava.
