Luca PODOFILLINI
The Use of Importance Measures for the Optimization of Multi-State Systems
In this paper we propose an approach to the multiobjective optimization of a multi-state system (MSS) design, based on incorporating information from importance measures (IMs). More specifically, IMs come into play at the objective functions level in order to drive the search towards a MSS which, besides being optimal from the points of view of economics and safety, is also 'balanced' in the sense that all components have similar IMs values, without bottlenecks or unnecessarily high-performing components.