Meet the editor

Leo D. Kounis is Head of Department of the Communication and Informatics Battalion of the Hellenic Ministry of Defense, Hellenic National Defense General Staff. He obtained his BEng (Hons) degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, his MSc in Quality Engineering, and his PhD in Systems Reliability from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Dr. Kounis has worked as a senior quality engineer in a number of private companies in

Greece and has acted as part-time lecturer and scientific advisor in academia. His research interests focus in the area of quality, transportation, and sustainable energy. He has published a number of scientific papers.

Contents

**Section 1**

Machine Tool

*by Qian Wang*

**Section 2**

*and Omar Viera*

**Preface XI**

Maintenance Models and Policies **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 27**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 71**

**Chapter 5 89**

Reliability and Industrial Networks **111**

**Chapter 6 113**

**Chapter 7 125**

Maintenance and Asset Life Cycle for Reliability Systems

Advantages of Condition-Based Maintenance over Scheduled Maintenance Using Structural Health Monitoring System *by Ting Dong, Raphael T. Haftka and Nam H. Kim*

Reliability Technology Based on Meta-Action for CNC

*by Yan Ran, Wei Zhang, Zongyi Mu and Genbao Zhang*

Reliability of Microelectromechanical Systems Devices

*by Wu Zhou, Jiangbo He, Peng Peng, Lili Chen and Kaicong Cao*

A Survivable and Reliable Network Topological Design Model *by Franco Robledo, Pablo Romero, Pablo Sartor, Luis Stabile*

Treatment of Uncertainties in Probabilistic Risk Assessment *by Vanderley de Vasconcelos, Wellington Antonio Soares, Antônio Carlos Lopes da Costa and Amanda Laureano Raso*

Reliability Analysis Based on Surrogate Modeling Methods

*by Carmen Elena Patiño-Rodriguez and Fernando Jesus Guevara Carazas*
