Download or read book New Computational Methods in Power System Reliability written by David Elmakias and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power system reliability is the focus of intensive study due to its critical role in providing energy supply to modern society. This comprehensive book describes application of some new specific techniques: universal generating function method and its combination with Monte Carlo simulation and with random processes methods, Semi-Markov and Markov reward models and genetic algorithm. The book can be considered as complementary to power system reliability textbooks.