Reliability measures, reliability assessment of multi-state systems -- System Engineering -- Reliability Modeling and Testing for Complex Systems -- Optimization of multi-state systems Continuous multi-state systems -- Standby multi-state systems -- New computational techniques applied to multi-state systems -- Mathematical Modelling & Simulation -- System reliability improvement and preventive maintenance based on component degradation -- Probabilistic and non-probabilistic safety assessment -- monitoring and control for multi-stage systems -- Engineering design for safety and reliability -- Statistical process control -- System modelling.