Meet the editor

Fausto Pedro García Márquez (https://blog.uclm.es/faustopedrogarcia/) works at UCLM as a full professor (accredited as full professor from 2013), Spain, an honorary senior research fellow at Birmingham University, UK, and a lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute; he has also been a senior manager at Accenture (2013–2014). He obtained his European PhD with a maximum distinction. He has been distinguished with the following prizes:

Advancement Prize for Management, Science and Engineering Management Nominated Prize (2018), First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award (2017); Runner-up (2015), Advancement (2013), and Silver (2012) from the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM); and Best Paper Award in the *International Journal of Renewable Energy* (impact factor 3.5) (2015). He has published more than 150 papers (65% ISI, 30% JCR, and 92% international), with some recognized as: "Renewable Energy" (Best Paper 2014); "ICMSEM" (excellent), "Int. J. of Automation and Computing" and "IMechE Part F: J. of Rail and Rapid Transit" (most downloaded), etc. He is author and editor of 25 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, IntechOpen, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega, etc.), and five patents. He is editor of five International journals and committee member of more than 40 international conferences. He has been principal investigator in four European projects, five national projects, and more than 150 projects for universities, companies, etc. His main interests are maintenance management, renewable energy, transport, advanced analytics, and data science. He is a director of the Ingenium Research Group (www.ingeniumgroup.eu).

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 127**

**Chapter 8 145** An Approach to Optimize the Management of Information Security in Public

Fault Detection of Single and Interval Valued Data Using Statistical Process

Real-Time Fault Detection and Diagnosis Using Intelligent Monitoring and

*by Mohammed Ziyan Sheriff, Nour Basha, Muhammad Nazmul Karim,* 

*by Segundo Moisés Toapanta Toapanta and Luis Enrique Mafla Gallegos*

Prognostics 102: Efficient Bayesian-Based Prognostics Algorithm in

Predicting Sets of Automata: Architecture, Evolution, Examples of

*by Sergey Kirillov, Aleksandr Kirillov, Vitalii Iakimkin, Michael Pecht* 

Analytic Prognostic in the Linear Damage Case Applied to Buried Petrochemical Pipelines and the Complex Probability Paradigm

Fault Diagnosis Techniques for a Wind Turbine System

Introductory Chapter: Prognostics - An Overview

*by Fausto Pedro García Márquez*

Prognosis, and Applications

*by Silvio Simani and Paolo Castaldi*

*Hazem Nounou and Mohamed Nounou*

*and Yuri Kaganovich*

*by Abdo Abou Jaoude*

Monitoring Techniques

Supervision Systems *by Gustavo Pérez Alvarez*

Organizations of Ecuador

*by Ting Dong, Dawn An and Nam H. Kim*

MATLAB
