Vital topics that make Optimal Reliability Modeling a powerful hands-on tool include:

• Complexity analysis–for background knowledge on efficiency comparisons of system reliability evaluation algorithms
• The Markov chain imbeddable structure–an effective tool for system reliability analysis
• Majorization–a powerful tool for the development of invariant optimal designs for some system structures
• The multistate system reliability theory–systematically introduced for the first time in a text on engineering system reliability analysis
• The latest k-out-of-n and consecutive-k-out-of-n system models–includes physical explanations and various applications