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Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering pp 151–190Cite as

New Evolutionary Methodologies for Integrated Safety System Design and Maintenance Optimization

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Galván, B., Winter, G., Greiner, D., Salazar, D., Méndez, M. (2007). New Evolutionary Methodologies for Integrated Safety System Design and Maintenance Optimization. In: Levitin, G. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37368-1_5

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