| Recommended Reading: |
Ross, S.M., Introduction to Probability Models, 8th edn, Academic Press, 2002; Pham, H., Handbook of Reliability Engineering, Springer, 2003; Ahua, R.K., Magnanti, T.L. and Orlin, J.B., Network Flows: Theory, Algoritms and Applications, Prentice Hall, 1993; Bertsekas, D.P., Network Optimization: Continuous and Discrete Models Athena Scientific, 1998; Pinedo, M., Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems, 2nd edn, Prentice Hall, 2002. |
| Description: |
Part I: Introduction to Reliability Theory. Topics covered will be selected from: system reliability concepts and methods, analysis of repairable systems and other recurrence data, life distributions based on notions of aging, maintenance and replacement models, warranty of systems.
Part 2: Network Optimisation. Topics covered will be selected from: algorithms for shortest path and network flow problems, machine scheduling, and combinatorial game theory. |
