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Reliability Optimization: A Particle Swarm Approach

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In recent years, substantial efforts related to the applications of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to various areas in engineering problems have been carried out. This chapter briefly gives the details of PSO development and its applications to reliability optimization.

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