Table of Contents

1. Bayesian networks for failure analysis of complex systems using different data sources
2. Hybrid failure modes and effect analysis model for reliability and safety evaluation of pressurized steam trap
3. Reliability and availability analysis of a standby system with activation time and varying demand
4. Fuzzy attack tree analysis of security threat assessment in an internet security system using algebraic t-norm and t-conorm
5. A new flexible extension to a lifetime distributions, properties, inference, and applications in engineering science
6. Markov and semi-Markov models in system reliability
7. Emerging trends and future directions in software reliability growth modelling
8. Reliability and profit analysis of a markov model having cost-free warranty with waiting repair facility
9. Semi-Markov modeling applications in system availability analysis
10. An a-cut interval-based similarity aggregation method to evaluate fault tree events for system safety under fuzzy environment
11. Business analytics to advance industrial safety management
12. Risk assessment and management of fire-induced domino effects in chemical industrial park
13. Stability assessment using Bayesian network control for inverters in smart grid

About the Author

Dr. Garg is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. He is the recipient of the Obada-Prize 2022 – Young Distinguished Researchers. He is also the recipient of the Top-Cited paper by an India-based author (2015 – 2019) from Elsevier Publisher. He also serves as an advisory board member of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN).
Dr. Garg's research interests include computational intelligence, multi-criteria decision making, evolutionary algorithms, reliability analysis, expert systems, and decision support systems, computing with words, and soft computing. He has authored more than 400 papers published in refereed international journals. He has also authored seven book chapters. He has also edited 8 books from Elsevier, Springer, and other publishers. Dr. Garg also serves on editorial boards of several leading international journals, this includes the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering. He is also the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction of Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Complex and Intelligent Systems, Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, and CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology. Prof. Mangey Ram received his Ph.D. in Mathematics (major) and Computer Science (minor) from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a faculty member for ca. 15 years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently a Research Professor at Graphic Era (deemed to be University), Dehradun, India and a Visiting Professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering, and Management Sciences; Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies; Journal of Graphic Era University; Series Editor of six book series with Elsevier, CRC Press-A Taylor and Frances Group, Walter De Gruyter Publisher Germany, River Publisher and Guest Editor and Associate Editor for various journals.

His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics.

Prof. Ram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Life Member of the Operational Research Society of India, the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a member of the organizing committee of several international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He was conferred the “Young Scientist Award” by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, in 2009, and given the “Best Faculty Award” in 2011; “Research Excellence Award” in 2015; and “Outstanding Researcher Award” in 2018 for his significant contributions in academics and research at Graphic Era (deemed to be University), Dehradun, India. Most recently, he received the "Excellence in Research of the Year-2021 Award” from the Honourable Chief Minister of the Uttarakhand State, India.