Safety and Reliability Theory and Applications contains the contributions presented at the 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2017, Portoro , Slovenia, June 18-22, 2017). The book covers a wide range of topics, including: Accident and Incident modelling Economic Analysis in Risk Management Foundational Issues in Risk Assessment and Management Human Factors and Human Reliability Maintenance Modeling and Applications Mathematical Methods in Reliability and Safety Prognostics and System Health Management Resilience Engineering Risk Assessment Risk Management Simulation for Safety and Reliability Analysis Structural Reliability System Reliability, and Uncertainty Analysis.Selected special sessions include contributions on: the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie innovative training network in structural safety; risk approaches in insurance and fi nance sectors; dynamic reliability and probabilistic safety assessment; Bayesian and statistical methods, reliability data and testing; oganizational factors and safety culture; software reliability and safety; probabilistic methods applied to power systems; socio-technical-economic systems; advanced safety assessment methodologies: extended Probabilistic Safety Assessment; reliability; availability; maintainability and safety in railways: theory & practice; big data risk analysis and management, and model-based reliability and safety engineering. Safety and Reliability Theory and Applications will be of interest to professionals and academics working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors including: Aeronautics and Aerospace, Automotive Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Production and Distribution, Environmental Engineering, Information Technology and Telecommunications, Critical Infrastructures, Insurance and Finance, Manufacturing, Marine Industry, Mechanical Engineering, Natural Hazards, Nuclear Engineering, Offshore Oil and Gas, Security and Protection, Transportation, and Policy Making.
