Reliability and Maintenance Modeling with Optimization: Advances and Applications (Advanced Research in Reliability and System Assurance Engineering)

Prof. Kimura earned his Ph.D. degree from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2002, and joined the current institute as a lecturer in the same year. He was promoted to a full professor in 2017. During his 15 years academic career, he published 5 book chapters, 21 journal papers and 47 peer-reviewed international conference papers.

Prof. Mizutani moved to Aichi Institute of Technology as an associate professor from Aichi University of Technology in 2016. He published 4 book chapters, 17 journal papers in addition to many international peer-reviewed conference papers.

Prof. Imaizumi received his Ph.D. degree from Aichi Institute of Technology in 1999 after joining Aichi Gakusen University as a teaching assistant. He was promoted to a full professor at the same university in 2012, and published over 70 articles in journals and proceedings.

Prof. Ito joined Tottori University as a full professor in 2017. Prior to joining the current university, he spent almost 33 years in Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Inc. as a technical stuff in the research and development divisions. He published 60 peer-reviews papers during his career in industry and academia. He received his Ph.D. degree from Aichi Institute of Technology in 1999.