Reliability and Maintenance: Networks and Systems gives an up-to-date presentation of system and network reliability analysis as well as maintenance planning with a focus on applicable models. Balancing theory and practice, it presents state-of-the-art research in key areas of reliability and maintenance theory and includes numerous examples and exercises. Every chapter starts with theoretical foundations and basic models and leads to more sophisticated models and ongoing research.

The first part of the book introduces structural reliability theory for binary coherent systems. Within the framework of these systems, the second part covers network reliability analysis. The third part presents simply structured maintenance policies that may help with the cost-optimal scheduling of preventive maintenance. Each part can be read independently of one another.

Suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in engineering, operations research, computer science, and applied mathematics, this book offers a thorough guide to the mathematical modeling of reliability and maintenance. It supplies the necessary theoretical and practical details for readers to perform reliability analyses and apply maintenance policies in their organizations.

Reliability and Maintenance: Networks and Systems gives an up-to-date presentation of system and network reliability analysis as well as maintenance planning with a focus on applicable models. Balancing theory and practice, it presents state-of-the-art research in key areas of reliability and maintenance theory and includes numerous examples and exercises. Every chapter starts with theoretical foundations and basic models and leads to more sophisticated models and ongoing research. The first part of the book introduces structural reliability theory for binary coherent systems. Within the framework of these systems, the second part covers network reliability analysis. The third part presents simply structured maintenance policies that may help with the cost-optimal scheduling of preventive maintenance. Each part can be read independently of one another. Suitable for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in engineering, operations research, computer science, and applied mathematics, this book offers a thorough guide to the mathematical modeling of reliability and maintenance. It supplies the necessary theoretical and practical details for readers to perform reliability analyses and apply maintenance policies in their organizations.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Grundlagen und Konzepte der modernen Kombinatorik in anschaulicher Weise. Die verstandliche Darlegung richtet sich an Studierende der Mathematik, der Naturwissenschaften, der Informatik und der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und erlaubt einen einfachen und beispielorientierten Zugang zu den Methoden der Kombinatorik. Beginnend mit den Grundaufgaben der Kombinatorik wird der Leser Schritt fur Schritt mit weiterfuhrenden Themen wie erzeugende Funktionen, Rekurrenzgleichungen und der Moebiusinversion sowie Graphenpolynomen und endlichen Automaten vertraut gemacht. Eine Vielzahl von Beispielen und UEbungsaufgaben mit Loesungen erleichtern das Verstandnis und dienen der Vertiefung und praktischen Anwendung des Lehrstoffes. Die vorliegende dritte Auflage ist komplett durchgesehen und deutlich erweitert um das Thema Kombinatorische Klassen und weitere, auch fur die praktische Anwendung wichtige Graphenpolynome.