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CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Enrico Zio:

High School Graduation Diploma in Italy (1985) and USA (1984)

MSc Nuclear Engineer Politecnico di Milano (1991)

MSc in mechanical engineering, University of California, Los Angeles,

UCLA (1995)

PhD in nuclear engineering, Politecnico di Milano (1995)

PhD in Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

MIT (1998)

Assistant professor, Politecnico di Milano (1996-2001)

Associate professor, Politecnico di Milano (2001-2005)

Full professor, Politecnico di Milano (2005-)

Director of the Graduate School, Politecnico di Milano (2007-2011) Director of the Chair on Complex Systems and the Energy Challenge at Ecole

Centrale Paris and Supelec, Fondation– EdF (2010-)

Adjunct professor, University of Stavanger, Norway (2010 -)

Adjunct professor, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso,

Cile (2010-2011)

Adjunct professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China(2013- )

Adjunct professor, Beihang University, Beijing, China (2015- )

Guest professor, Wuhan University of Technology, China (2015-)

Co-Director of the Center for REliability and Safety of Critical Infrastructures

(CRESCI) at Beihang University, Beijing, China (2015- )

Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association-ESRA (2010-

2014)

Rector’s Delegate for the Alumni Association, Politecnico di Milano (2011-)

President of the Alumni Association, Politecnico di Milano (2012-)

Rector’s Delegate for Individual Fund Raising, Politecnico di Milano (2015-)

President of Advanced Reliability, Availability and Maintainability of

Industries and Services (ARAMIS) srl (2012-)

Member of the Scientific Committee on Accidental Risks of INERIS, Institut

national de l’environnement industriel et des risques, France (2011-2015) Member of the Academic Committee of the European Reference Network for

Critical Infrastructure Protection, ERNCIP, of the European Commission

(2013-)

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Light Water Reactor Sustainability

Program, Risk-Informed Safety Margins Characterization (RISMC) of the

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) (2015-) Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Singapore-ETH

Centre’s (SEC).Future Resilient Systems Programme (FRS) (2015-2018)

Member of the Alstom Transport “ Health Hub” Scientific Advisory Board

(2015-)

Founding Member of the IEEE Reliability Society Technical Committee on

“Systems of Systems”

Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM) 2016-2024

Personal Data

Born in Milano on May 6, 1966

Home address: Via Fratelli Cervi, Milano 2 Residenza Poggio 961, Segrate 20090, Italy.

Tel. (+39) 02 26924622 home

(+39) 02 23996340 office

fax (+39) 02 23996309

email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

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Education

1) HIGH SCHOOL

1984: Graduation Diploma with high honors at Carroll High School, Ozark, Alabama, USA, at the

end of a one-year experience as an exchange student in U.S.A. Member of the National

Honor Society.

1985: Graduation Diploma at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy, with the score of

60/60.

2) UNIVERSITY

1991: Laurea in Nuclear Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan, Milano, Italy, with the final

degree score of 100/100 cum laude. The dissertation thesis presented was entitled “Monte

Carlo Analysis of the Reliability and Availability of a Complex System. Nonlinear case,

Static and Dynamic”.

3) POST - LAUREA STUDIES

March 1995: Master in Mechanical engineering at the " Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear

Engineering Department" of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Fourteen courses

were attended with a "Grade Point Average" of 3.96 out of 4.0. The thesis presented was entitled

"Model Uncertainty and the Use of Expert Judgment in the Performance Assessment of a High-

Level Radioactive Waste Repository".

October 1995: PhD in “ Science and Technology in Nuclear Plants” at the Department of Nuclear

Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan. The thesis presented was entitled "Probabilistic-Dynamic

Analysis of Systems by means of Monte Carlo Methods and Neural Networks".

February 1998: PhD at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. The thesis presented was entitled "A Methodology for Interactive Decision Making in

Environmental Management Involving Multiple Stakeholders".

4) RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN ITALY

Since 1996 : Assistant professor on tenure track and permanent staff researcher at the Department

of Nuclear Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan.

2001-2005 : Associate professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Polytechnic of

Milan.

Since 2005 : Full professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering and then at the Energy

Department of the Polytechnic of Milan.

5) RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ABROAD

1993-1995: Staff researcher at the “Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering Department” of

the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

1996 – 1997 and 1999 – 2000: Research activity within the framework of the Belgian-Italian

agreement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Service de Metrologie

Nucleaire of the Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles.

1998: One month research period as a visiting scientist at the Mechanical Engineering Department

of the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in the group of Reactor Physics. The research

objective was the development of a probabilistic method for the estimation of Xenon in nuclear

power reactors.

2001: One week research period as a visiting scientist at the Systems Modelling and Dependability

Laboratory (LM2S) of the Université de Technologie de Troyes, France. The research objective was

the development of components degradation models and corresponding optimal maintenance

strategies.

2007: Invited to join the Ohio State University Academic Center of Excellence (ACE) for

Instrumentation and Control and Reactor Safety.

2008: Invited to a one week research period as a visiting scientist at the Industrial Engineering

Department of the Tsinghua University, Beijng, People Republic of China. The research obiective

was the investigation of safety, reliability and ergonomics issues of safety-critical systems,

especially on emergency response and team performance.

2009: Invited to a one week research period at the Industrial Engineering Department of the

Universidad Federico Santa Maria of Valparaiso, Chile. The research obiective was the

investigation of innovative productive availability modeling techniques.

Since 2010: Director of the Chair on Complex Systems and the Energy Challenge at Ecole Centrale

Paris and Supelec, Fondation Europeenne pour l’Energie Nouvelle – EdF.

Since 2010: Adjunct professor in Risk Analysis at the Faculty of Science and Technology,

Department of Economics, Risk Management and Planning, of the University of Stavanger,

Norway.

2010-2011: Adjunct professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Universidad

Tecnica Federico Santa Marica, Valparaiso, Cile.

2012: Invited to a two-week research period as a visiting Professor at Beihang University BUAAA,

Beijng, People Republic of China. The research obiective has been the investigation of failure

diagnostics methods based on dynamic Support Vector Machines, combined with Particle Filtering,

of methods for the Reliability Analysis of Complex Systems, of methods of Accelerated

Degradation Testing and Reliability Analysis of Smart Meters.

Since 2013: Adjunct professor at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People Republic of

China.

Since 2014: Adjunct professor at the School of Reliability and System Engineering of Beihang

University BUAAA, Beijng, People Republic of China.

2015: Invited to a two-week research period as a visiting Professor at Beihang University BUAAA,

Beijng, People Republic of China.

6) ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Keynote lectures

2001: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the Safety and Reliability International

Conference KONBIN’01, Poland, May 22-25, 2001.

2005: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the International Conference on

PRA/QRA Applications, Taiwan, November 28, 2005.

2005: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of The Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk

Management and Safety, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong Kong.

2006: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the Safety and Reliability International

Conference KONBIN’06, Poland, May 30-June 02, 2006.

2006: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the International Conference on

Mathematical and Statistical Modeling ICMSM 2006, Spain, May 30-June 02, 2006.

2007: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the European Safety and Reliability

Conference ESREL 2007, Stavanger, Norway, June 25-27, 2007.

2007: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the Summer Safety and Reliability

Seminars SSARS 2007, Sopot, Poland, July 23-29, 2007.

2008: Invited Keynote Speaker at the Plenary Session of the Leuven Symposium on Applied

Mechanics and Engineering – LSAME 2008, Leuven, Belgium, March 31- April 2, 2008.

2008: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Sessions of the Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management Pre-Conference Workshop – PSAM 9, Taipei, Taiwan, May 14- 16, 2008.

2008: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Sessions of the International Forum on Industrial

Safety, Toulouse, France, July 8- 10, 2008.

2009: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the International Conference on Risk,

Maintenance and Safety (ICRSM), Chengdu, China, July 22- 25, 2009.

2010: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the IEEE Prognostics and System Health

Management Conference 2010 (PHM 2010), Macau, China, January 12-14, 2010.

2010: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the International Symposium on Stochastic

Models in Reliability Engineering, Life Science and Operations Management, SMRLO10, February

8-11, 2010, Beer Sheva, Israel.

2010: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the 1st International Education Forum on

Reliability and System Engineering, October 15th-16th, 2010, Beijing, China.

2011: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the International Conference on Quality,

Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety (ICQR2SM), Xian, China, June 17- 19, 2011.

2011: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the Summer Safety and Reliability

Seminars SSARS 2011, Sopot, Poland, July 3-9, 2011.

2011: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the 4th workshop of Groupement d’Interet Scientifique

“Surveillance, Surete, Securite des Grands Systemes” (GIS-3SGS’11), Valenciennes, 12-13 Octobre

2011.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the 1st International Workshop on Safety

& Security Risk Assessment and Organisational Cultures (SSRAOC2012), Radisson Blu-Astrid

Hotel, Antwerp, January 29-31, 2012.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Plenary Session of the 1st International Symposium on

Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling (Uncertainties 2012), Maresias, São Sebastião,

São Paulo, Brazil, February 26 to March 2, 2012.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecture at the Plenary Session of the 1st International Workshop of the

Brazilian Safety and Reliability Association, Petrobras Headquarters, Rio de Janeiro, March 2,

2012.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecture at the Workshop on Resilience and risk assessment for critical

infrastructures – European Union Joint Research Centre-Ispra (JRC-Ispra), Ranco 25-26 April 2012.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecture at the Plenary Session of the IEEE Prognostics and System Health

Management Conference 2012 (PHM 2012), Beijing, China, May 24-26, 2012.

2012: Invited Plenary Keynote Lecture at the Plenary Session of the Joint Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management 11/European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2012,

Helsinki, Finland, June 25-29 2012.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 2nd IFAC A-MEST Workshop on “Maintenance for

Dependability, Asset Management and PHM”, Seville, Spain, November 22-23, 2012.

2012: Invited Keynote Lecturer at the Tyche Workshop on “Modelisation Stochatiques en Grande

Dimension pour la Propagation et la Quantification des Incertitudes en Mecanique“, Agence

National de Recherce, Paris, France, December 6-7, 2012.

2013: Invited Lecture at the Risk Center of ETHZ, Zurich, 26 March 2013.

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference KONBIN 2013, Poznan, Poland, 13-

16 Mai 2013.

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 10th TNCEIP Meeting on Interdependencies and Critical

Energy Infrastructure Protection – European Union Joint Research Centre-Ispra (JRC-Ispra), Ispra,

Italy, 18-19 June 2013.

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Mathematical Methods for

Reliability, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 30 June-4 July 2013.

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 4th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis

Response, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-29 August 2013.

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 1st Community Protection International Conference and

Exhibition, Genova, Italy, 29-30 October 2013.

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the Integration of Stochastic Energy in Power Systems Workshop,

Bucarest, Romania,

2013: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 2nd Dean’s Forum on Resilience Engineering, Paris, France,

18-20 November 2013.

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Workshop on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics and

Safety, Bhabba Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, January 13-15, 2014.

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at Stavanger University’s Workshop on “Black Swans”, Stavanger,

Norway, 20 February 2014.

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at Ecole de Mines-ParisTech, Sophia Antipolis, France, April 24,

2014

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2, 2014.

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk

Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty

Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2014) 6th - 9th July 2014, University of Liverpool, UK.

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk,

Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2014), Dalian, Liaoning, China, July 22-25, 2014.

2014: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Reliability, Petrobras, Rio de

Jaineiro, Brazil, August 26-29, 2014.

2015: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on on Quality, Reliability, Risk,

Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2015), July 21-24, 2015, Beijing, China.

2015: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 2ème Forum de la R&D de Electricite’ de France (EDF), 18

Septembre 2015, Ecole Polytechnique, France.

2015: Invited Keynote Lecture at the Rio Pipeline Conference and Exposition of IBP - Brazilian

Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute, September 22-24, 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2015: Invited Keynote Lecture at the annual meeting of the Design Safety and Environmental

committee of the British Chemical Engineering Contractors Association (BCECA), London,

England, 26 November 2015.

2015: Invited Keynote Lecture at the International Conference 2SCS'15 organized by ENSA Agadir,

November 27-28 2015, Agadir, Marocco.

Academic courses and lectures

Since 1992: Advisor of several one-year laurea thesis and PhD thesis at the Department of Nuclear

Engineering, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy.

Since 1998 - : Professor at the Professional Training Course (40 hours) Innovative techniques for

the evaluation of the reliability and availability of industrial plants held each year at the Politecnico

di Milano, Italy.

1999 - 2003: Professor of the academic course “Safety and Risk Analysis” for senior nuclear and

chemical engineering undergraduate students at the Polytechnic of Milan (Figure 1). Since 2000/01

recitation classes are care of another Lecturer.

2000 - 2004: Professor of the academic course “Nuclear Plants II” for senior nuclear engineering

undergraduate students at the Polytechnic of Milan (Figure 2). Since 2001/02 recitation classes are

care of another Lecturer.

2004-2009: Professor of the academic courses “Computational Methods for Safety and Risk

Analysis I and II” (5+5 credits) for senior nuclear, environmental, safety and chemical engineering

undergraduate students at the Polytechnic of Milan.

2001-2005: Professor of the academic PhD course “Monte Carlo Methods for Safety Analysis” for

students in the PhD program in Radiation Science and Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan.

2002: Invited Professor at the Advanced Studies School in Quality, Reliability And Maintenance,

Risk And Safety of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, February 2002.

2002-2004: Invited Professor of a 16 hours course “Basics of the Monte Carlo Method with

Application to System Reliability” to PhD students, researchers and professors of the Universidad

Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

2003: Invited Professor of the Institutional course (one quarter) “Probability and its Appllications to

Risk, Reliability and Quality Control” to senior and PhD students of the Mechanical and Aerospace

Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (median overall ratings by the

students of the course and instructor = 8 and 9, respectively, on a scale from 1=low to 9=High).

2003: International member of the Doctoral Commiteee at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

(Barcelona, Spain).

2003: International member (Opposant) in the Doctoral Committee of the Helsinki University of

Technology (Helsinki, Finlandia).

2004: International advisor of a Doctoral Thesis at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.

2004: Substitute international member of the Doctoral Commitee at the Universitat Politecnica de

Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain).

2004: Invited Professor of a 14 hours course of excellence on “Basics of the Monte Carlo Method

with Application to System Reliability” at the PhD school of the Politecnico di Torino.

2004: Professor at the Professional Training Course (24 hours) Application of soft-computing

techniques to engineering and modeling of complex phenomena, held at the Politecnico di Milano,

Italy.

Since 2004: Professor at the Master Course (16 hours) Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and

Safety of Complex Technological Systems, held at the Politecnico di Torino (COREP), Italy.

2005: Invited Professor of a 15 hours course “An Introduction to Soft Computing Methods in

Nuclear Engineering: Artificial Neural Networks” to PhD students, researchers and professors of the

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

2006: Invited Professor of a 15 hours course “Advanced Methods of Soft Computing Methods for

Fault Diagnostics in Engineered Systems: Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic” to PhD students,

researchers and professors of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

2006: Invited Professor of a 9 hours course “Advanced Computational Methods for Nuclear Safety:

Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation” to PhD students, researchers

and professors of the Tsinghua University, Beijng, People Republic of China.

2006: Advisor of one thesis at the Master Executive in Management of Industrial Maintenance,

MIP Politecnico di Milano.

2006 - 2007: Professor at the Professional Training Course (24 hours) Industrial Safety: Risk

Analysis Tecniques for Safety at Work, INAIL, Italy.

2006-2009: Chairman and Professor of the academic PhD course

Simulation/Numerical/Computational Methods for Nuclear Engineering, for students in the PhD

program in Radiation Science and Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan.

Since 2006 - : Professor at the Master Executive Course (8 hours) Management of Industrial

Maintenance, held at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Since 2006 - : Professor at the Professional Training Course (40 hours) Industrial Safety: Risk

Analysis Tecniques held each year at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2007: International member (Opposant) in the Committee for Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches

at the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille, France).

2007 : External member in the Committee of PhD defense at the Universita’ di Palermo, Italy.

2007 : External member in the Committee of PhD defense at the Universita’ di Pisa, Italy.

2007: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at ETHZ, Zurich.

2007: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at the Universite’ de Troyes, France.

Since 2007: Invited Professor of a 20 hours course “Introducción A Los Métodos De Soft

Computing En Ingeniería: Algoritmos Genéticos, Redes Neuronales Y Lógica Fuzzy” to Master and

PhD students, researchers and professors of the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering,

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

2008: External member in the Committee of PhD defense at the Universita’ di Bologna, Italy.

2008: Invited Professor of the course “Uncertainty in Complex Engineering Systems: Modeling by

Monte Carlo Simulation” Leuven Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.

2008: Invited Professor of a 20 hours course “Advanced Methods of Soft Computing for Fault

Diagnostics in Engineered Systems” to PhD students, researchers and professors of the Universidad


2008: Invited Professor of a 2 hours course “Basics of Monte Carlo Simulation with Applications to

System Reliability and Maintenance” to students of Industrial Engineering at the Tsinghua

University, Beijng, People Republic of China.

2008: Invited Professor of the course “Monte Carlo Simulation for System Safety and Reliability

Modelling” to PhD students, researchers and professors of the Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia

Maritime University, Poland.

2009: Invited Professor of a 20 hours course “Advanced Methods of Soft Computing for Fault

Diagnostics in Engineered Systems” to PhD students, researchers and professors of the Universidad


2009: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at the Universite’ de Troyes, France.

2009: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at the Universite’ de Nantes, France.

2009: International reviewer of a PhD thesis of the Universidad de Granada, Spain.

2009: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at ETHZ, Zurich.

Since 2009: Director and Lecturer of the one-week course “Quantitative Risk Assessment” (40 hrs)

for ENICorporate University (2009 rating by the students of the course and instructor = 4 and 4,

respectively, on a scale from 1=low to 4=High).

2009 - 2011 : Professor at the Master Executive (12 hours) on Asset Maintenance, held at the

Universidad Federico Santa Maria of Valparaiso, Chile.

Since 2009: Invited Professor of an 8 hours mini-course “Risk Analysis Methods for the

Vulnerability Assessment of Critical Infrastructures” at the Master in Homeland Security of the

Universita Roma 3, Italy.

Since 2010: Professor of the academic courses “Reliability, Safety and Risk Analysis I ” (10 ECTS

credits) for nuclear, environmental, safety, mathematical and chemical engineering senior

undergraduate students at the Polytechnic of Milan.

2010: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Telecom ParisTech, Paris.

2010: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Paris VII, Paris.

2010: International reviewer of a PhD thesis at Queensald University of Technnology, Australia.

2010: Director and Professor of the the Professional Training Course (24 hours) Industrial Safety:

Risk Analysis Tecniques for Safety at Work, Airliquide, Italy.

2010: Professor of a 4 hours course on Probabilistic Risk Assessment Concepts and Techniques of

the Executive Master on Nuclear Plant construction Management, MIP, Italy.

2010-2011: Responsible and Professor of the course “Maintenance” (48 hrs) in the International

Master of Nuclear Energy, at leading Academic Institutions in Paris, France.

2010: Co-advisor of a PhD thesis at Liverpool John Moore University.

Since 2010: Responsible Chair of the major “Operation” in the International Master of Nuclear

Energy, at leading Academic Institutions in Paris, France.

Since 2010: Advisor of several one-year laurea thesis and PhD thesis at Ecole Centrale Paris and

Supelec, France.

2010: Invited Professor of a 3 hours course on “Monte Carlo Simulation for System Safety and

Reliability”, at Ecole Superieure d’Electricite’, Rennes, France.

2010: Invited Professor of a 3 hours course on “Uncertainty in Industrial Risk Assessment”, at

Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris, France.

Since 2010: Invited Professor of a 15 hours course “Introducción al Método Monte Carlo y las

Redes Neuronales Y Lógica Fuzzy” to Master, PhD students, researchers and professors of the

Industrial Engineering Department of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.

Since 2010: Director and Lecturer of the one-week course “Reliability, Availability,

Maintainability, Safety (RAMS)” (40 hrs) for ENICorporate University.

2010: Director and Lecturer of the three-day course “Maintenance Induction Engineering” (24 hrs)

for ENICorporate University.

Since 2011: Director and Lecturer of the one-week course “Maintenance Engineering” (40 hrs) for

ENICorporate University.

Since 2011: Director and Lecturer of the one-week course “Quantitative Risk Analysis” (40 hrs) for

ENICorporate University.

2011: Invited professor at the summer course on “Electricity Market Desing and operation: In-depth

introductory”, DTU Electrical Engineering, Lyngby, 15-16 September 2011, Denmark.

2011-2015: Responsible and Professor of the course “Modeling and Simulation Methods for the

Reliability, Safety and Risk Analysis of Complex Engineering System” (36 hrs) in the major

“Industrial Engineering” at Ecole Centrale Paris, France.

Since 2011: Responsible and Professor of the course “Risk Management” (48 hrs) in the

International Master of Nuclear Energy, at leading Academic Institutions in Paris, France.

2011-2015: Responsible and Professor of the course “Risk Assessment and Management” (36 hrs)

at Ecole Centrale Paris, France.

Since 2011: Responsible and Professor of the course “Modeling and Simulation Methods for the

Reliability, Safety and Risk Analysis of Complex Engineering System” (36 hrs) in the major

“Industrial Engineering” at Ecole Centrale Paris, France.

Since 2012: Responsible and Professor of the course “Nuclear Thermohydraulics” (48 hrs) in the

International Master of Nuclear Energy, at leading Academic Institutions in Paris, France.

2012: Invited Professor at the Master in Homeland Security, Rome, Italy, January 19, 2012.

2012: Invited lecture at Beihang University, Beijing, China, January 4, 2012.

2012: Invited lecture at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 9, 2012.

2012: Invited lecture at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil, March 5, 2012

2012: Three invited lectures at Beihang University, May 2012.

2012: Invited lecture at North China Electric University, Beijing, China, May, 2012.

2012: Invited lecture at University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, May, 2012.

2012: Invited lecture at Politecnico di Milano, Seminario di Alta Cultura Matematica, June 6, 2012.

2012: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris.

2012: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Ecole de Mines, Albi, France.

2012: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Universite’ de Nancy, France.

2013: Invited Professor at the Master in Homeland Security, Rome, Italy, February 21, 2013.

2013: Course on “An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis”, at Ecole Central

Pekin at Behiang University, China, March 18-21, 2013.

2013: Invited Seminar at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, March 22, 2013.

Since 2013: Responsible and Professor of the course “Risk of Industrial Systems” (36 hrs) at Ecole

Centrale Paris, France, in the major “Industrial Engineering” at Ecole Centrale Paris, France.

2013: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Universite’ de Bourdemer, Algerie.

2014: Invited Professor at the Master in Homeland Security, Rome, Italy, January 31, 2014.

2014: Invited Plenary lecture at the European Union Joint Research Centre, ISPRA, Italy, 7

February, 2014.

2014: Invited lecture at Ecole de Mines ParisTech, Sophia Antipolis, France, April 24, 2014.

2014: Invited lecture at the Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics group of KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2

2014.

2014: International member in the Committee of PhD defense at Universite’ de Lorraine, Belfort,

France.

2014: Member in the Committee of HDR at Universite’ AgroParis, Paris, France.

2015: Member in the Committee of HDR at Universite’ de Lorraine, Belfort, France.

2015: Member in the Committee of HDR Universite’ de Nancy, France..

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Morevoer:

1991: Teaching Assistanship in “Mathematical Analysis” at the Polytechnic of Milan

1992-1993: Professor at short courses on Error Theory held to Technical Employees of the Italian

national electric supply utility, ENEL

1995-1996: Teaching Assistanship of the three courses “Nuclear Waste Management”, “Probability

and its Applications to Quality Control, and Risk and Reliability Assessment”, “Energy, Electricity

and the Environment” at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology.

1996-2001: Series of 15 lectures on Monte Carlo methods for reliability analysis and models for

groundwater contaminant transport, held within the course of Signal analysis at the Department of

Nuclear Engineering, Polytechnic of Milano,Italy

1998: Lecturer at the workshop on Nuclear Reaction Data and Nuclear Reactors: Physics, Design

and Safety of “The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics”.

1999-: Series of 30 lectures within the course on Safety and Risk Analysis for senior students at the

Department of Nuclear Engineering, Polytechnic of Milano,Italy

1999: Invited Lecturer at the Reliability Workshop organized by the Institute of Applied

Mathematics and Informatics of the Italian National Research Council.

2000: Invited speaker at the workshop on “Monte Carlo simulation for optimization of the logistic

and maintenance policies of industrial plants”, Edinburgh, May 16, 2000.

2001: Invited Lecturer at the Safety and Reliability International Conference KONBIN’01, Poland,

May 22-25, 2001.

2001: Invited Lecturer at the meeting "The Maintenance Information System, trends and new

applications”, organized by the Italian Association of MaiNtainance” (A.I.MAN.), Milano, Itay,

June 4, 2001.

2001: Invited speaker at the workshop on “The use of Monte Carlo Methods in uncertainty and

Sensitivity Analysis of Non Linear and Discontinous Phenomena”, Torino, Italy, September 19,

2001.

2002: Invited speaker at the Roundtable Affidabilità: il punto, analisi della situazione e prospettive,

organized by the Italian Association of Quality Control and the IEEE Reliability Society Italian

Chapter, Milano, February 19, 2002.

2003: Invited Seminar on “System Failure Engineering: A Holistic View into the Limits of

Engineered Systems”, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of

California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, February 13, 2003.

2003: Invited Seminar on “Computational Intelligence Techniques for the Identification of Faults in

Nuclear Power Plant Components”, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California

Berkeley (UCB), USA, March 10, 2003.

2003: Invited Tutorial on “Fault Detection using Computational Intelligence Techniques: Neural

Networks and Fuzzy Logic Systems”, European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003,

Maastricht, The Netherlands, 15 June 2003.

2003: Invited Lecture on “Modelling by Fuzzy Logic Systems”, Norwegian University of Science

and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, 30 October 2003.

2003: Invited Lecture on “Maintenance strategies and Model”, The institution of Structural

Engineers, SAFERELNET, London, 8 September 2003.

2003: Lecturer (4 hours) at the continuing education course on “Metodologie di analisi dei rischi nel

campo dei prodotti, delle macchine e degli impianti tecnologici” (Risk analysis methods in the field

of technological products, machinery and plants”, ISPESL-Universita’ degli studi di Roma, La

Sapienza, 11 Novembre 2003.

2004: Lecturer (12 hours) at the continuing education Course on Industrial Risk for technicians of

the public administration, 5 and 11 November 2004.

2005: Discussant of a PhD thesis in Industrial Safety of the Politecnico di Torino.

2005: Lecturer at the Course ”Risk Analysis and the Control of Environmental Pollution” (2 ore),

of the Associazione per lo Studio ed il Controllo della Contaminazione Ambientale (ASCCA)

(Italian Association for the Study and Control of Environmental Pollution).

2005: Lecturer (16 hours) at the Advanced School on the Assessment of Industrial Risks for

technicians of the public administration, 5 and 6 October 2005, Milano, Italy.

2005: Lecturer at the November 30th Pre-Conference Workshop of The Asia-Pacific Conference on

Risk Management and Safety, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong Kong.

2006: Lecturer (6 hours) at the 2006 Probabilistic/Quantitative Risk Assessment Workshop, 29-30

November, 2006, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER), Taoyuan, Taiwan.

2006: Invited Lecture on “Soft computing methods for system reliability, maintenance and

diagnostics”, Industrial Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People Republic of

China, 1 December 2006.

2006: Invited Lecture on “Selecting by Genetic Algorithms the system features (i.e. monitored

signals) to be used as basis for diagnosing transients and faults in nuclear components”, Hanyang

University, Seoul, Korea, 6 December 2006.

2006: Invited Lecture on “Selecting by Genetic Algorithms the system features (i.e. monitored

signals) to be used as basis for diagnosing transients and faults in nuclear components”, Korean

Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, 7 December 2006.

2006: Lecturer (8 hours) at the Professional Training Course Risk Analysis Methods and Post-

Accident Tecniques, Direzione Regionale dei Vigili del Fuoco (Firemen), Genova, Italy, 11

December 2006.

2006: Lecturer (8 hours) at the Professional Training Course Safety and Risk Analysis, Learning

Research Associates, Milano, Italy, 13 December 2006.

2007: Invited Speaker (2 hours) on Wrestling System Failures by Advanced Computational

Methods, Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing, MOX, Politecnico di Milano, 7

February 2007.

2007: Invited Speaker (2 hours) at the Conference La Gestione Della Sicurezza nel Processo

Chimico: Vincoli Normativi e Innovazione dei Sistemi Strumentali, Milano, Italy, 27 February 2007

(Presentation on Risk and its Assessment for the Management of Process Safety).

2007: Invited Speaker at the Closing Roundtable Come Strutturare i Metodi e le Tecnologie

dell’Ingegneria di Manutenzione per Migliorare la Competitivita’ Aziendale, Dalmine, Italy, 16

March 2007.

2007: Invited Speaker at the Conference City&Security, Rome, Italy, 30 March 2007 (Presentation

on Quantitative Techniques for the Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Network Systems and

Infrastructures”).

2007: Invited Speaker (2 hours) Risk Assessment in Structural and Industrial Engineering,

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, 16 May 2007.

2007: Lecturer (4 hours) at the 4th Focus Group Italia – IEC 61508 & 61511, Safety Users Group,

Milano, Italy, May 31 2007.

2007: Italian Section-IEEE Reliability Society Seminar (2 hours), Reliability Engineering: Old

Problems and New Challenges, Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan,

Milano, Italy, June 19 2007.

2007: Lecturer (12 hours) Risk Analysis Course to Executives of the Italian Fire-Fighters Agency,

Rome, Italy, September 19-20, 2007.

2008: Invited Speaker (2 hours) Reliability Engineering: Old Problems and New Challenges, CNR-

IMATI Seminar Series, 8 January 2008.

2008: Lecturer (2 hours) at the Meeting on Safety in the Process Industry, Milano, Italy, 7 March

2008.

2008: Invited International Lecturer at the Annual Meeting of the RAMONA Project, Bergen,

Norway, December 11-12, 2008.

2009: Lecturer (3 hours) at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER), Taoyuan, Taiwan.

2012: Invited Seminar on “Degradation Modeling, Condition Monitoring and Prognostics and

Health Management (PHM) in the nuclear industry”, School of Physics and Nuclear Energy

Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China, January 4, 2012.

2012: Invited Seminar on “Condition Monitoring and PHM in nuclear power plants”, Department

of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,

January 9, 2012.

2012: Invited participant of a roundtable on Complex Systems at the Digiteo Workshop, Ecole

Polytechnique, Paris, France, November 2012.

2013: Course on Fundamentals of computing by neural networks, for the researchers of the

European Joint Research Center at Ispra (JRC-Ispra), Ispra, Italy, 10-11 January 2013.

6.1 Students’ evaluation of lectures

RELIABILITY, SAFETY AND RISK ANALYSIS (Polytechnic of Milan)

1999/2000: Comprehensive students’ evaluation for the course “Safety and Risk Analysis” of the

Polytechnic of Milan: 5,0 out of 5,0 (average = 3,6 for all the courses at the Institution).



Recitation classes care of another Lecturer




2002/2003: Not available (due to insufficient number of responses for statistical analysis)

2003/2004: Comprehensive students’ evaluation for the course “Computational Methods for Safety

and Risk Analysis” of the Polytechnic of Milan: 3,83 out of 4,0 (average = 3,02 for all the courses at

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the Institution). Recitation classes care of other Lecturers



the Institution). Recitation classes care of other Lecturers





and Risk Analysis” of the Polytechnic of Milan: 3,11out of 4,0 (average = 2,89 for all the courses at



and Risk Analysis” of the Polytechnic of Milan: 3,11out of 4,0 (average = 2,89 for all the courses at


NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS (Polytechnic of Milan)

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PROBABILITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO RISK, RELIABILITY AND QUALITY

CONTROL (University of California, Los Angeles)

2002/2003 Comprehensive students’ evaluation for the course “Probability and its Appllications to

Risk, Reliability and Quality Control” of the University of California, Los Angeles: 8 out of 9

(course) ; 9 out of 9 (instructor).

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7) ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN ITALY

2015-: Rector’s delegate for Individual Fundraising at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2012-: President of the Alumni Association of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2011-: Rector’s delegate for the Alumni Association of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2010-: Member of the Advisory Board of the “Observatory of Technologies and Services for

Maintenance” (Osservatorio Tecnologie e Servizi per la Manutenzione, TeSeM) of Politecnico di

Milano, Italy.

2007-2011: Director of the Graduate School of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2006-2007: Chairman of the PhD Program on Radiation Science and Technology of the Politecnico

di Milano, Italy.

Since 2006: Director of the Professional Training Course (40 hours) Industrial Safety: Risk Analysis

Techniques held each year at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2004-2009: Member of the Council of the PhD curriculum in Nuclear and Industrial Safety of the

University of Pisa.

Sicne 2004: Co-Proposer and Member of the Council of the Curricula of Studies for the Laurea in

Prevention and Safety Engineering in the Process Industry at the Polytechnic of Milan.

2003-2008: Secretary of the Council of the Curricula of Studies for the Laurea in Nuclear

Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan.

2002-2005: Member of the Steering Committee of 3ASI, the Italian association of Reliability and

Safety analysts.

2001-2011: President of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Reliability Section

Since 1998: Scientific organizer of the Professional Training Course (40 hours) Innovative

techniques for the evaluation of the reliability and availability of industrial plants held each year at

the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2000-2003: Member of the Management Board of the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the

Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

2002-2005: Member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for International Relations of the

Polytechnic of Milan.

2002-2008: Member of the Permanent Committee of the Nuclear Engineering Course of the

Polytechnic of Milano.

2002: Scientific guarantee (one of five Professors) of the Nuclear Engineering Course of the


Since 2002: Member of the Scientific Committee of the national Conference “VGR, Valutazione e

Gestione del Rischio”, Pisa, Italy.

Moreover:

1997 - 2007: Coordinator of the seminar activity at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the

Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

1997- 2004: Collaborator of the Student Orientation Center of the Polytechnic of Milan.

1998-2007: Coordinator of the orientation and cultural activities at the Department of Nuclear

Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

1999: Co-organizer of the one-day workshop on Optimization of Plant Maintenance Activities held

at the Polytechnic of Milan.

1999-2000: Coordinator of the Seminar series class for PhD students of the Department of Nuclear

Engineering of the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

2000-2007: Coordinator of the Informatics Commission for the Department of Nuclear Engineering

of the Polytechnic of Milan.

2002-2007: Coordinator of the cultural visits for the students of Nuclear Engineering of the


8) ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL (ASSOCIATIONS,

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TECHNICAL SESSIONS)

8.1 Editor and member of International Journals and Book series

2003-2004: Editor in chief of the international Journal Risk Decision and Policy.

Since 2006: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Reliability and Risk Analysis

Since 2006: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Reliability Engineering and System

Safety

Since 2006: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge

Management

Since 2007: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Science and Technology of Nuclear

Installations.

Since 2007: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computational

Intelligence Systems.

Since 2007: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Computational

Intelligence.

Since 2007: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Security and Its

Applications.

Since 2007: Member of the Editorial Board of the International e-Journal of Reliability & Risk

Analysis: Theory and Applications...

Since 2007: Member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Materials and Structural

Reliability.

Since 2008: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Nuclear Engineering and

Technology.

Since 2008: Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer book series on Security, Complex

Systems and Governance.

Since 2008: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Performability

Engineering (Since 2010: Coordinator of Group 3).

Since 2011: Associate Editor of the International Journal IEEE Trans. on Reliability.

Since 2012: Member of the Editorial Board of the International e-Journal of Reliability & Risk

Analysis: Theory and Applications.

Since 2012: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal Environment Systems and

Decisions.

Since 2013: International Editorial Board Member of the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

Since 2014: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in

Engineering Systems.

Since 2015: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Security Technology for

Smart Device (IJSTSD).

Since 2015: Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Security Research (EJSR).

8.2 International Associations

2010-: Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association, ESRA

2001-2005: Vice-Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association, ESRA

1999-2001: Treasurer of the European Safety and Reliability Association, ESRA

2003-2009: Member of the Advisory Council of the International Forum on Engineering Decision

Making, IFEDM

2007-2011: IEEE Reliability Society Technical Operations Leader – Europe

Since 2007: Member of the Korean Nuclear Society

Since 2007: Member of China Reliability Society

Since 2008: Honorary member of the Polish Society of Safety and Reliability

Since 2009: Member of China Prognostics and Health Management society

(2011-2015) Member of the Scientific Committee on Accidental Risks of INERIS, Institut national

de l’environnement industriel et des risques, France

(2013-) Member of the Academic Committee of the European Reference Network for Critical

Infrastructure Protection, ERNCIP, of the European Commission

Since 2014: Founding member of the IEEE Reliability Society Technical Committee on “Systems

of Systems”

(2015-) Member of the Advisory Committee of the Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program,

Risk-Informed Safety Margins Characterization (RISMC) of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

(2015-2018) Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Singapore-ETH Centre’s

(SEC).Future Resilient Systems Programme (FRS)

(2015-) Member of the Alstom Transport “ Health Hub” Scientific Advisory Board

Since 2016: Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Probabilistic

Safety Assessment and Management (IAPSAM)

8.3 Chairman of International Conferences

2001: Scientific Chairman of the international conference ESREL2001 of the European Safety and

Reliability Association, Torino, Italy, September 16-20, 2001.

2004: Associate General Chair of the joint international conference European Safety and Reliability

ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM VII, Berlin, Germany, June

14-18, 2004.

2005: Co-Chairman of the international conference European Safety and Reliability ESREL 2005,

Gdynia, Poland 2005.

2006: Member of the Honorary Committee of the international conference KONBIN 2006, the 4th

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Krakow, Poland, 30 May – June 2, 2006.

2006: Scientific Chairman of the international conference European Safety and Reliability ESREL

2006, Estoril, Portugal 2006.

2007: Co-Chairman of the 32nd ESReDA and 1st ESReDA-ESRA Seminar on Maintenance

Modeling and Applications, Alghero, Italy, May 8-9, 2007.

2007: Co-Chairman of the 1st Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland, July

22-29, 2007.

2008: Associate Technical Chairman of the international conference Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management PSAM 9, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008.

2008: Co-Chairman of the 2nd Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland,

June 23-28, 2008.

2009: Co-Chairman of the 2nd International Forum on Industrial Safety, Milano, Italy, July 8-10,

2009.

2009: Co-Chairman of the 3rd Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland,

July 20-26, 2009.

2009: Co-Chairman of the 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintenance and Safety

(ICRMS), Chengdu, China, July 21-25, 2009.

2010: General Co-Chairman of the 4th Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot,

Poland, July, 2010.

2010: Technical Co-Chairman of the international conference European Safety and Reliability

ESREL 2010, Rhodes, Greece, September 5-10, 2010.

2011: Co-Chairman of the International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Analysis 2011, PSA’11, Wilmington, NC USA, March 13 - 17, 2011.


Poland, July 3-9, 2011.

2012: General Co-Chairman of the International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk,

Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2012), June 15-18, 2012, Chengdu, Sichuan,

China.

2012: General Co-Chairman of the joint international conference European Safety and Reliability

ESREL 2012/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM 12, Helsinki, Finland, June

25-29, 2012.


Poland.

2013: General Chairman of the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2013

(PHM 2013), Milano, Italy, September 8-11, 2013.


Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2013) and International Conference on Materials

and Reliability (ICMR 2013), July 15-18, 2012, Eimeshan, Sichuan, China.


Poland.

2013: IEEE Workshop Editor of the Integration of Stochastic Energy in Power Systems Workshop,

Bucarest, Romania.


Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2014) and International Conference on Materials

and Reliability (ICMR 2014), China.


Poland.

2015: General Co-Chairman of the 11th International Conference on Information and Digital

Technologies 2015, July 7th - 9th, 2015, Zilina, Slovakia.

2015: General Co-Chairman of the International Conference on on Quality, Reliability, Risk,

Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2015), July 21-24, 2015, Beijing, China.

2015: General Co-Chairman of the international conference European Safety and Reliability ESREL

2015, Zurich, Switzerland, September 17-10, 2015.

2016: General Co-Chairman of the International Conference on Materials, Reliability and Safety

(ICMRS 2016).

2017: General Co-Chairman of the international conference Probabilistic Safety Assessment PSA

2017, Pittsburgh, 2017.

8.4 Guest Editor of International Journals

2002: Guest Editor of the international journal Risk Decision and Policy, vol. 7, 2002.

2002: Guest Editor of the international journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 77,

2002.

2003: Guest Editor of the international journal Risk, Decision and Policy, vol. 8, 2003.

2004: Guest Editor of the international journal Risk, Decision and Policy, vol. 9, 2004.

2007: Guest Editor of the Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No. 3, 2007.

2008: Guest Editor of the international Journal of Reliability and Risk Analysis, vol. 222, 2008.

2009: Guest Editor of the international journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol.

94, 2009.

2009: Guest Editor of the international journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention, vol. 41, 2009.

2011: Guest Editor of the international journal of Risk Assessment and Management, vol. 15, no. 2

and 3, 2011.

2012: Guest Editor of the international journal of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol.

105, 2012.

2013: Guest Editor of the international journal of IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

2014: Guest Editor of the international journal of Science and Technology in Nuclear Installations.

2014: Guest Editor of the international journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering.

2014: Guest Editor of the international journal Mathematical Methods and Applications.

2014: Guest Editor of the international journal of Performability Engineering.

2014: Guest Editor of the international journal of IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

2014: Guest Editor of the international journal Journal of Risk and Reliability.

8.5 Member of International Boards

2003: Member of the Technical Program Steering Board of ESREL'03 an International Conference

on Safety and Reliability, 15-18 June, 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Since 2002: Nominated Member of the Supervisory Board of the Centre of Competence in Safety,

Reliability and Maritime Education at Gdynia Maritime University, Poland.

2005: Member of the Scientific Program Committee at SMRSSL'05, The International Symposium

on stochastic models in reliability, safety, security and logistics, 18-22 February, 2005, Beer-Sheba,

Israel.

2005: Member of the Technical Advisory Panel of The Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk

Management and Safety, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong Kong.

2011: Member of the Advisory Committee of the First International Symposium on Systems

Informatics and Engineering, Qingdao, China, July 12-14, 2011.

2012: Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the 1st international conference on Eco-cities

of the future, Versailles, Paris, May 23-25, 2012.

2012-: Member of the Scientific Committee on Accidental Risks of INERIS, Institut national de

l’environnement industriel et des risques, France. 2013-: Member of the Academic Committee of the European Reference Network for Critical

Infrastructure Protection, ERNCIP, 2013.

2015- Member of the Advisory Committee of the Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program,

Risk-Informed Safety Margins Characterization (RISMC) of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

(2015-)

2015-2018: Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Singapore-ETH Centre’s

(SEC).Future Resilient Systems Programme (FRS) (2015-2018)

2015-: Member of the Alstom Transport “ Health Hub” Scientific Advisory Board (2015-)

2015-: Founding Member of the IEEE Reliability Society Technical Committee on “Systems of

Systems”

8.6 Referee of International Books, Journals, Research Proposals and Reports

Since 1993: Referee for the international journal Reliability Engineering and System Safety.

Since 2000: Referee for the international journal Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Since 2000: Referee for the international journal Annals of Nuclear Energy

Since 2000: Referee for the international journal Computers & Industrial Engineering

Since 2003:Referee for the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Since 2003:Referee for the International Journal of Production Research

Since 2003:Referee for the European Journal of Operational Research

Since 2004:Referee for the international journal Progress in Nuclear Energy

Since 2004:Referee for the international journal Safety Science

Since 2004:Referee for the international journal Information Sciences

Since 2004:Referee for the international Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Since 2004:Referee for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Since 2006:Referee for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Since 2006:Referee for the international journal IIE International Industrial Engineering

Since 2006:Referee for the international journal Risk Analysis

Since 2006:Referee for the international Journal of Reliability and Risk Analysis

Since 2006:Referee for the international journal Nuclear Technology

Since 2007:Referee for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems

Since 2007:Referee for the international journal Nuclear Engineering and Design

Since 2007:Referee for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Engineering and

Science

Since 2007:Referee for the international journal Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations

Since 2007:Referee for the international journal on Computational Intelligence Systems.

Since 2007:Referee for the Revista de la Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Central de

Venezuela.

Since 2009:Referee for the Revista Dyna, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Since 2009:Referee for the international journal Nuclear Engineering and Technology.

Since 2010:Referee for the international journal Structural Engineering and Mechanics.

Since 2010: Referee of the international journal European Journal of Operations Research.

Since 2010: Referee of the international journal Knoledge-based Systems

Since 2010: Referee of the international journal Microelectronics Reliability

Since 2011: Referee of the international journal Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

Since 2011: Referee of the international journal Applied Mathematical Modelling.

Since 2011: Referee of the international journal Sensors

Since 2011: Referee of the international journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems

Since 2011: Referee of the international journal International Journal of Pressure Vessels and

Piping

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal Applied Soft Computing

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal Computers and Structures

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal Environmental Modelling & Software

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal Aerospace Science and Technology

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal Physica A

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal Failure Engineering Analysis

Since 2012: Referee of the international journal on Electrical Power Engineering Systems

Since 2013: Referee of the international journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Since 2013: Referee of the international journal Quality and Reliability International

Since 2013: Referee of the international journal of Computer Engineering Research

Since 2013: Referee for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Since 2013: Referee of the international journal Expert Systems With Applications

Since 2014: Referee of the international journal Sensors

Since 2013: Referee of the international journal Computers and Structures

AND MANY OTHERS

2002: Reviewer of the book by A. Hoyland and M. Rausand, System Reliability Theory: Models and

Statistical Methods, Second Edition, Wiley-Interscience.

2007: Reviewer of the book by N. Limnios, Fault Trees, ISTE Ltd.

2007: Reviewer of the book by B. Natvig, Multistate reliability theory with applications, Wiley.

2009: Reviewer of the book by M. Rausand, Risk Assessment: Theories, Methods and Applications,

Wiley-Interscience.

2009: Reviewer of the book by G. Resconi and J. Tian, Risk Analysis with Morphogenetic System

Theory, International Series on Risk Analysis and Emergency Response, Beijing University Press.

2009: Reviewer of the book by M. Monti and P. Bragatto, Knowledge is Safety, Bentham Sciejntific

Publishers.

2011: Reviewer of the book by W. Kuo and X. Zhu, Importance Measures in Reliability, Risk and

Optimization: Principles and Applications, Wiley-Interscience.

2011: Reviewer of the book by T. Aven, Foundations of Risk Analysis, 2nd Edition Wiley-

Interscience.

2011: Reviewer of the book by P. Hokstad et al., Risk and Interdependencies in Critical

Infrastructures: A guideline for Analysis, Springer.

2011: Reviewer of the book by J. Nachlas, Probability Foundations for Engineers, CRC Press.

2012: Reviewer of the book edited by S. Bologna and P. Theron Critical Information Infrastructure

Protection and Resilience in the ICT Sector, IGI Global.

2006: Reviewer of the institutional research plan: "Quality and operational dependability of

production equipment with respect to safety and environmental aspects" of the Ministry of

Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic.

2006: Reviewer of the Center for Research-based innovation "Center for e-Field and Integrated

Operations for Upstream Petroleum Activities" of the Research Council of Norway.

2006: Reviewer of the three NUREG/CR Reports on “Reliability Modeling of Digital

Instrumentation and Control Systems for Nuclear Reactor Probabilistic Risk Assessments”.

2010: Reviewer of the proposal for a 3-year project on: "Risk-Sensitive Particle Filtering

Framework for Failure Prognosis and Uncertainty Representation in Nonlinear Systems with High-

Impact/Low-Likelihood Events” submitted to FONDECYT National Research Funding

Competition, Chile.

2010: Reviewer of the proposal for the project on: "Climate Adaptation and Innovation Research

Centre” of the Research Council of Norway.

2014: Reviewer of the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – Cofunded by the EU. 2014: Reviewer of the book proposal “Reliability and Availability Engineering, Profs. Trivedi and

Bobbio, Cambridge.

2014: Reviewer of the book proposal “Facilitative Discrete Event Simulation: A Practical Guide”

by Kathy Kotiadis and Antuela A Tako, Wiley.

2015: Reviewer of a project for the Agence Nacional de la Recherche, France.

2015: Reviewer of a project for the Norwegian National Research Council.

8.7 Organizer of International Workshops

1999: Co-organizer of an international Workshop on “Variance reduction methods for weight-

controlled Monte Carlo simulation of complex dynamical systems”, Munich, September 16, 1999.

2001: Co-organizer of an international Workshop on “Dynamic Reliability”, Torino, September 19,

2001.

2002: Co-organizer of an international Workshop on “Monte Carlo Simulation for the Reliability

Assessment of Complex Dynamic Structures” Lyon, March 20, 2002.

2004: Co-organizer of an international Workshop on “Can Simulation Models Really Help the

Practice of Maintenance” Berlin, June 18, 2004.

2008: Co-Chairman of the Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Pre-Conference

Workshop – PSAM 9, Taipei, Taiwan, May 14- 16, 2008.

2010: Co-organizer of an international Workshop “On the Assessment and Communication of Risk

and Uncertainties in a Practical Decision Making Context: Beyond Traditional Frameworks”, Los

Angeles, January 22-23, 2010.

2012: Co-Organizer of the international Workshop “Foundational issues in risk assessment and

risk management” , Hotel Laurin, Salò, Italy, 3-4 August 2012.

2013: Organizer of the international workshop: “Research Network on Fiexible Risk Assessment

and Decision Science” at the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety

(ICTIS), Wuhan City.

2014: Co-Organizer of the international workshop: “Young Researchers in Reliability and Risk

Analysis” 26-28 May 2014, Donnafugata, Italy.

2014: Co-Organizer of the international mini-symposium: “Critical Infrastructures and Network

Systems: Statistical Properties and Modelling for Reliability, Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience

Analyses” at the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and

Management (ICVRAM2014) Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and

Analysis (ISUMA2014) 6th - 9th July 2014, University of Liverpool, UK.

2015: Co-Organizer of the international mini-symposium: “Advanced Simulation Methods for

Probabilistic Analysis of Complex Engineering Systems”, at the 12th International Conference on

Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering ICASP 12, Vancouver, Canada, July

12-15, 2015.

2016: Co-Organizer of the international mini-symposium: “Risk Assessment of Complex

Infrastructure Networks” at the 6th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its

Applications (APSSRA 2016).

2016: Co-Organizer of the international mini-symposium: “Advanced and efficient simulation

methods for probabilistic analysis in engineering problems" at the ECCOMAS Congress 2016

5 - 10 JUNE 2016 Crete Island, Greece.

8.8 Task Leader in European Research Networks

2001-2006. Task Leader of two tasks, and member of three others, in the Thematic Network

“SAFERELNET: SAFEty and RELiability NETwork” composed by 34 members from 11 countries

and financed by the European Union of the Fifth Framework Programme.

2004-2006. Member of the steering committee of the Thematic Network “SAFERELNET: SAFEty

and RELiability NETwork” composed by 34 members from 11 countries and financed by the

European Union of the Fifth Framework Programme.

Morevoer:

8.9 Organizer of sessions at International Conferences

1998: Session co-organizer at ESREL'98 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability 16-

19 June, 1998, Trondheim, Norway. Title of the session: Monte Carlo Simulation.


18 September, 1999, Garching, Germany. Title of the sessions: "Monte Carlo Methods" and "Monte

Carlo Applications".

1999: Co-organizer of a session on particle transport at the Second International Association for

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods 7-11 June,

1999, Varna, Bulgaria.


17 May, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Title of the sessions: "Monte Carlo Simulation" and "Soft

computing techniques in reliability applications: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic

Algorithms".

2000: Session co-organizer at PSAM 5 an International Conference on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management, November 27 – December 1, 2000, Osaka, Japan. Title of the

sessions: "Monte Carlo methods and applications in safety and reliability analysis" and "Soft

computing for reliability: Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms".

2001: Co-organizer of a session on particle transport at the Third International Association for

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods September

10-14, 2001, Salzburg, Austria.

2001: Session co-organizer at ESREL 2001, an International Conference on Safety and Reliability,

September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy. Title of the session: "Monte Carlo Reliability and Availability

Analysis".

2001: Co-organizer of a Tutorial on “Monte Carlo Methods in Reliability” at ESREL 2001, an

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy.

2002: Organizer of one M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and

Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France. technical session at PSA'02 an

International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment, October 6-10, 2002, Detroit,

Michigan, USA. Title of session: "Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic for process modeling and

control in failure identification and diagnosis practices".

2003: Co-organizer of a session on contaminant transport at the Fourth International Association

for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods

September 15-19, 2003, Berlin.

2003: Co-organizer of a session on system dependability analysis at the Fourth International

Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) Seminar on Monte Carlo

Methods September 15-19, 2003, Berlin.


June 27-30, 2005, Tri-City, Poland. Title of the session: "Monte Carlo Methods in system Safety

and Reliability".


June 27-30, 2005, Tri-City, Poland. Title of the session: "Modelling Maintenance Practice".


June 27-30, 2005, Tri-City, Poland. Title of the Sessions: Monte Carlo simulation: Recent Issues

and Future Trends, part I and II.

2006: Session organizer at the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear

Science (FLINS) Conference, August 29-31, 2006, Genova, Italy. Title of the Session: Soft

Computing Applied to Signal Analysis in Nuclear Reactors.

2007: Session co-organizer at ESREL 2007, Stavanger, Norway, June 25-27, 2007. Title of the 5

Sessions: 1) Neural network applications in safety and reliability; 2) Vulnerability, Reliability and

Safety of Complex Networks and Critical Infrastructures; 3) System health monitoring, fault

diagnosis and prognosis; 4) Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing for optimization of

RAMS; 5) Managing maintenance for improving safety and production.

2008: Session co-organizer at ESREL 2008, Valencia, Spain, Sept 22-25, 2008. Title of the 4

Sessions: 1) Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures; 2) Computational methods for fault diagnosis

and prognosis; 3) Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing for optimization of RAMS; 4)

Maintenance modeling and applications.

2009: Session co-organizer at the 6th International topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant

Instrumentation Control and Human Machine Interface Technology (NPIC&HMIT 2009), April 5-9,

2009, Knoxville Tennessee. Title of the Session: Modeling Digital I&C Systems in PRA/PSA.

2009: Session organizer at the 9th International Conference on Reliabilty, Maintenance and Safety

(ICRMS 2009), July 21-25, 2009, Chengdu, China. Title of the Sessions: Advanced Computational

Methods in Reliability, Maintainability and Safety and ESReDA-ESRA Maintenance Modeling and

Applications Project.

2010: Session co-organizer at PSAM 10, Seattle, USA, June 7-11, 2010. Title of the 6 Sessions: 1)

Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures; 2) Computational intelligence methods for risk analysis;

3) Modeling digital I&C systems in PRA/PSA; 4) ESReDA-ESRA Maintenance Modeling and

Applications Project; 5) Reliability Analysis of Passive Safety Systems; 6) Performance assessment

of radioactive waste repositories.

2011: Session co-organizer at MMR 2011, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Beijing, June 20-

24. Title of the Session: System health monitoring, fault diagnosis and prognosis’.

2011: Session co-organizer at ESREL 2011, European Safety and Reliability Conference, Troyes,

France, September 19-22. Title of the Sessions: 1) System health monitoring, fault diagnosis and

prognosis; 2) Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures.

2012: Session co-organizer at the International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk,

Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2012), June 15-18, 2012, Chengdu, Sichuan,

China. Title of the Session: Reliability and risk modeling, and optimization of energy systems.

2012: Session organizer at the 9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics,

Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-9), Kaohsiung City (Taiwan), September 9 – 13, 2012.Title:

Challenges in Risk and Safety: PRA is the key concept, useful technology and communication tool

for nuclear safety.

2013: Session organizer at the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Information and

Safety (ICTIS), Wuhan City. Title: Special Workshop: Research Network on Fiexible Risk

Assessment and Decision Science.

2013: Session co-organizer at MMR 2013, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Stellenbosch,

South Africa, July 1-4. Title of the Session: Reliability and risk modeling, and optimization of

energy systems.

2014: Session co-organizer at PSAM 12, Honolulu, USA, June 22-27, 2014. Title of the 2 Sessions: 1) Reliability of Passive Systems; 2) Dynamic Reliability.

8.10 Promoter of International Education Exchanges

Since 2000: Promoter of the Higher Education Socrates Exchange Programme between the

Politecnico di Milano and the Universite’ de Technologie de Troyes, France.


Politecnico di Milano and the Instituto Superior Tecnico of Lisboa, Portugal.


Politecnico di Milano and the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.


Politecnico di Milano and the Czech University of Prague, Czech Republic.


Politecnico di Milano and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU,

Trondheim, Norway.


Politecnico di Milano and the University of Innsbruck, Austria.


Politecnico di Milano and the Gdansk Maritime University, Poland.

9) MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEES

Since 1996: Technical Committee on Monte Carlo Methods within the European Safety and

Reliability Association.

1997-2007: Technical Committee on Monte Carlo Methods within the International Association for

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

1998: Technical Program Committee of ESREL'98 an International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998, Trondheim, Norway.


Reliability, 13-18 September, 1999, Garching, Germany.

Since 1999: Technical Committee on Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis within the European

Safety and Reliability Association.


Reliability,May 14 - 17, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.


Reliability, 16-20, September, 2001, Torino, Italy.

2002: Technical Program Committee of ESREL'02-LAMBDA-MU 13 an International Conference

on Safety and Reliability, 19-21, March, 2002, Lyon, France.

2002: Technical Program Committee of PSA'02 an International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic

Safety Assessment, October 6-10, 2002, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

2002: Technical Program Committee of VGR2002: “Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e

Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti Civili ed Industriali”, October 15-17, 2002, Pisa, Italy.

2003: Technical Program Committee of KONBIN'03 Safety and Reliability International

Conference, Poland.

2003: Technical Program Board of ESREL'03 an International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, 15-18 June, 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

2003-2008: Chairman of the Technical Committee on Maintenance Modelling and Application

within the European Safety and Reliability Association.

2004: Technical Program Committee of 14ème congrès de Fiabilitè Maintenabilitè Lamba-Mu à

Bourges 12-14 October 2004.



2004-2006: Steering Committee of the Thematic Network “SAFERELNET: SAFEty and

RELiability NETwork” composed by 34 members from 11 countries and financed by the European

Union of the Fifth Framework Programme for a total of 2,108,000 Euros.

2005: Technical Program Committee of ICOSSAR’05 International Conference For Structural

Safety and Reliability, June 19-22, 2005, Rome, Italy

2005: Scientific Program Committee of SMRSSL'05, The International Symposium on stochastic

models in reliability, safety, security and logistics, 18-22 February, 2005, Beer-Sheba, Israel.

2005: Organizing committee of the 16th Advances in Reliability Technology Symposium (ARTS)

Loughborough University, April 12-14, 2005.

2005: International Program Committee of M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor

Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France.

2005: Scientific Program Committee of CIEM 2005, The International Conference on Energy and

Environment, Bucharest, 20-22 October, 2005.

2005: Scientific Program Committee of MM 2005, International Conference on Maintenance

Management for Quality Life, Safety and Productivity, Venice, Italy, April 14-15, 2006.

2005-2008: Co-chairman of the Technical Committee on Innovative Methods of System Health

Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis within the European Safety and Reliability Association.

2006: Scientific Program Committee of CNIP 2006, The International Conference on Complex

Networks and Infrastructure Protection, Rome, Italy, 28-29 March, 2006.

2006: Technical Program Committee of ARES 2006, The International Dependability Conference,

Wien, Austria, 20-22 April, 2006.

2006: Technical Program Committee of KONBIN’06, Safety and Reliability International

Conference, Poland, May 30-June 02, 2006.

2006: International Program Committee of FLINS 2006, 7th International Conference on Applied

Artificial Intelligence, Genova, Italy, August 29-31, 2006.


Reliability, 18-22, September, 2006, Estoril, Portugal.



2006-2008: Co-Chairman of the Technical Committee on Security of Interconnected Infrastructures

within the European Safety and Reliability Association.

2007: Scientific Committee of CHERNE 2007, 3rd Workshop on European Collaboration for

Higher Education and Research in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Protection, Prague, 8-10

February 2007.

2007: Technical Program Committee of 17th AR2TS, Advances in Risk and Reliability Technology

Symposium, Loughborough University, England, April 10-13, 2007.


Wien, Austria, 10-13 April, 2007.

2007: Technical Program Committee of Trans-Nav 2009, 7th International Navigational Symposium

on Marine Navigation and Safety in Sea Transportation, 20-22, June 2007, Gdynia, Poland.


Reliability, 18, Stavanger, Norway, June 25-27, 2007.

2007: Technical Program Committee of Marine Traffic Engineering, 21st-23rd November 2007,

Swinoujscie-Szczecin, Poland.

2007: International Program Committee of ISKE2007, an International Conference on Intelligent

Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Chengdu, China, October 16-17, 2007.


Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 March, 2008.

2008: Technical Program Committee of the international conference Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management PSAM 9, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008.

2008: International Program Committee of PDR08, an Internation Conference on Advances in

Product Development and Reliability, Chengsu, China, 4-6 August 2008.


Reliability, Valencia, Spain, September 22-25, 2008.

2008: Technical Program Committee of LAMBDA-MU 16 an International Conference on Safety

and Reliability, 6-10, October, 2008, Avignon, France.



Since 2008: Technical Committee on System Reliability within the European Safety and Reliability

Association.

2009: International Program Committee of QUALITA 09, March 18-20, 2009, Besancon, France.


Symposium, Loughborough University, England, April 21-23, 2009.

2009: Technical Program Committee of Trans-Nav 2009, 8th International Navigational Symposium

on Marine Navigation and Safety in Sea Transportation, 17-19, June 2009, Gdynia, Poland.

2009: Technical Program Committee of 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and

Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2009), 27-28, November 2009, Belgium.


Reliability, Prague, Czech Republic, September 7-10, 2009.

2009: International Program Committee of ICRMS’09, an International Conference on Reliability,

Maintenance and Safety, Chengdu, China, Luly 21-25, 2009.

2009 Scientific Programme Committee of the 13th International Marine Traffic Engineering

Conference 2009 (MTE09), 19-22 October 2009, Malmo, Sweden.

2010: Scientific Programme Committee of the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management

Conference 2010 (PHM 2010), Macau, China, January 12-14, 2010.

2010: Technical Program Commiitte of the international conference Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management PSAM 10, Seattle, USA, June 6-10, 2010.

2010: International Program Committee of the 1st IFAC Workshop A-MEST (Advanced

Maintenance Engineering, Technoloy and Service), Lisbon, Portugal, 1-2 July, 2010.

2011: Technical Program Committee of Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis 2011,

PSA’11, Wilmington, NC USA, March 13 - 17, 2011.


Symposium, Loughborough University, England, 2011.

2011: Scientific Program Committee of MIMAR-2011, the 7th IMA International Conference on

Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability, Cambridge, U.K., 18th and 19th April 2011.

2011: Scientific Programme Committee of the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management

Conference 2011 (PHM 2011), Shenzhen, China, May, 2011.

2011: Technical Program Committee of ICRMS 2011 an International Conference on Reliability,

Maintainability and Safety, Guyong, China, June 2011.

2011: Technical Program Committee of MMR 2011, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Beijing,

China, June 2011.

2011: Technical Program Committee of IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and

Automation Engineering (CSAE 2011), Shanghai, China, 10-12 June, 2011.

2011: Scientific Programme Committee of 9th International Symposium on Marine Navigation and

Safety of Sea Transportation TransNav 2011, Gdynia, 15-17 June 2011.


Reliability, Troyes, France, 19-22 September 2011.

2011: Scientific Program Commiitte of the international program committee of Intelligent Systems

and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2011), Hangzhou, China, November 15-16, 2010.

2012: Scientific Program Commiitte of the international workshop on Reliable Engineering

Computing (REC2012), Brno, Czech Republic, June 13-15, 2012.

2012: Scientific Programme Committee of 10th International Symposium on Marine Navigation and

Safety of Sea Transportation TransNav 2012.

2012: Scientific Program Commiitte of Conférence Internationale Francophone d'Automatique

(CIFA 2012), Grenoble, Juin 2012.

2012: Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management

Conference 2012 (PHM 2012), Beijing, China, May 24-26, 2012.

2012: Technical Program Committee of the Joint Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

11/European Safety and Reliability Conference PSAM11/ESREL 2012, Helsinki, Finland, June 25-

29 2012.

2012: Technical Program Committee of the 9-th International Topical Meeting on Thermal-

hydraulics, operations, and safety, NUTHOS-9, 9-13, 2012, Koaihsiung, Taiwan.

2013: Technical Program Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Transportation

Information and Safety (ICTIS), Wuhan, China.

2013: Technical Program Committee of the 11th International Symposium on Marine Navigation

and Safety of Sea Transportation TransNav 2013.


Reliability, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2013.

2013: Technical Program Committee of the Ninth International Conference on Digital Technologies

2013 (DT 2013), Zilina (Slovakia), May 29-13, 2013.

2013: Technical Program Committee of the First Brazilian Conference on Risk Analysis, Safety and

Reliability, 25-27 November 2013, Rio, Brasil.

2013: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions CIES 2013.

2014: Technical Program Committee of the 12th International Symposium on Marine Navigation

and Safety of Sea Transportation TransNav 2014.


Reliability, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

2014: Technical Program Committee of the Tenth International Conference on Digital Technologies

2013 (DT 2014), Zilina (Slovakia), 2014.

2014: Technical Program Committee of the International Conference FORMS/FORMAT 2014

conference at Braunschweig, Germany.

2014: International Scientific Committee of the Second International Conference on Vulnerability

and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) Sixth International Symposium on

Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2014) 6th - 9th July 2014, University of Liverpool,

UK.

2014: International Programme Committee of the 9th Future Security Conference 16th - 18th

September 2014, Berlin, Gernany.

2014: International Scientific Advisory Board of the Society for Risk Analysis – Europe (SRA-E)

2014 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

2014: 6th International Conference on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC2014) "Reliability

and Computations of Infrastructures", May 25-28, 2014, IIT, Chicago, IL., United States of

America.

2014: International Program Committee of the Prognostics and Health Management – Europe

(PHM-Europe) 2014, Nantes, July 8-10, 2014.

2014: “The Fraunhofer VVS‘ 9th Future Security Conference”, September 16-18, 2014, Berlin.


2015: ABRISCO 2015- PSAM Topical meeting, the Second ABRISCO Conference on “Safety and

Reliability of Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Activities”, November 23 to 25, 2015, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil.

2015: 3rd International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety, ICTIS 2015, Wuhan

University, August 2015.


2015: ICESEE2015, International Conference on Environmental Science and Energy

Engineineering, 26-27 July, 2015, Phuket, Thailand.

2015: STSD 2015, First International Workshop on Security Technology for Smart Device

2015: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: IEEE Symposium on Computational

Intelligence for Engineering Solutions.

2015: 8th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability (MIMAR

8), July 2015, England.

2016: SMRLO’16, Second International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability

Engineering, Life Science and Operations Management, February 15-18, 2016, Beer Sheva, Israel.

2016: 9th International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability

(MIMAR 9), London, UK , 12-14 July 2016.

2016: 7th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC 2016), Bochum,

Germany, June 15-17, 2016.

10) SESSION CHAIRMAN AT THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1997: ESREL'97 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon,

Portugal (two sessions).

1998: ESREL'98 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability 16-19 June, 1998,

Trondheim, Norway (three sessions).

1998: MCESRA-98 Chairman of the annual meeting of the Technical Committee on Monte Carlo

Methods nell'ambito della European Safety and Reliability Association, June 19, Trondheim,

Norway.

1999: Second International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

(IMACS) Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods 7-11 June, 1999, Varna, Bulgaria (one session).

1999: ESREL'99 European Safety and Reliability Conference 13-17 September, 1999, TUM

Munich-Garching, Germany (two sessions).

2000: ESREL'00 European Safety and Reliability Conference 14-17 May, 2000, Edinburgh,

Scotland, UK (two sessions).

2001: Samo 2001 Third International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, June

18-20, 2001, Madrid-Spain (one session).

2001: ESREL'01 European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy

(one session).

2002: ESREL'02-LAMBDA-MU 13 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 19-21,

March, 2002, Lyon, France (one session).

2002: PSAM 6 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, 23-

28 June, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (one session).

2002: VGR2002: “Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti

Civili ed Industriali”, October 15-17, 2002, Pisa, Italy (two sessions).

2003: ESREL'03 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 15-18 June, 2003,

Maastricht, The Netherlands.

2003: MCM-2003 IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, September 15-19, 2003, Berlin.

2004: ESREL’04/PSAM 7 European Safety and Reliability ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management PSAM VII, Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004.

2005: ESREL 2005 European Safety and Reliability Conference, Tri-City, Poland, 27-30 June 2005.

2005: International Program Committee of M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor

Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France.

2005: The Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk Management and Safety, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong

Kong.

2006: PSAM 8, International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, New

Orleans, USA, May 14-18, 2006.

2006: KONBIN’06, Safety and Reliability International Conference, Poland, May 30-June 02, 2006.

2006: 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS)

Conference, Augusdt 29-31, 2006, Genova, Italy

2006: ESREL 2006 European Safety and Reliability Conference, Estoril, Portugal, 18-22 September

2006.

2006: VGR2006: “Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti

Civili ed Industriali”, October 17-19, 2006, Pisa, Italy.

2007: ESREL 2007 European Safety and Reliability Conference, Stavanger, Norway, June 25-27,

2007.

2007: 1st Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland, July 22-29, 2007.

2008: PSAM 9 Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008.

2008: 2nd Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland, June 23-28, 2008.

2008: ESREL'08 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Valencia, Spain, September

22-25, 2008.

2009: 2nd IFIS an International Forum on Industrrial Safety, Milano, Italy, 8-10 July, 2009.

2009: ICRMS’09 an International Conference on Reliability, Maintenance, Safety, Chengdu, China,

21-25 July, 2009.

2009: ESREL'09 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Prague, Czech Republic,

September 7-10, 2009.

2010: PHM 2010 the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2010, Macau,

China, January 12-14, 2010.

2010: SAMO 2010 Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, Milano, July 19-22, 2010.

2010: ESREL'10 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Rhodes, Greece, September

5-10, 2010.

2011: Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis 2011, PSA’11, Wilmington, NC USA, March

13 - 17, 2011.

2011: MMR 2011, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Beijing, June 20-24.

2011: ESREL'11 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Troyes, France, 19-22

September 2011.

2012: IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2012 (PHM 2012), Beijing,

China, May 24-26, 2012.

2012: Joint Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management 11/European Safety and Reliability

Conference ESREL 2012, Helsinki, Finland, June 25-29 2012.

2013: PHM 2013 the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2013, Milano,

Italy, September 8-12, 2013.

2013: ESREL 2013 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Amsterdam, The

Netherlands, September 29 – October 2, 2013.

2014: IW-NTHS an International Workshop on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics and Safety, Bhabba

Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, January 13-15, 2014.

2014: PHM-Europe 2014 the Prognostics and Health Management Conference-Europe 2014,

Nantes, France, July 8-10, 2014.

2015: ESREL 2015, European Safety and Reliability, Zurich, Switzerland, September 17-10, 2015.

11) MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS

Since 1996: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society of North America

Since 1997: International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, IMACS.

Since 1999: 3ASI, the Italian association of Reliability and Safety analysts

Since 2006: IEEE Reliability Senior Member

Since 2007: Gnedenko Forum

Since 2007: Korean Nuclear society

Since 2007: China Reliability Society

Since 2008: Polish Reliability and Safety Associationy

Since 2009: China Prognostics and Health Management society

12) AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2006: Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution Award, International Association on Fuzzy Logic

and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS)

2002: Awarded the gold medal for best oral communication at ESREL'02, LAMBDA-MU 13 an

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 19-21, March, 2002, Lyon, France

Before:

1988-1990: INPDAI merit based one-year fellowship for undergraduate students

September 1991: only italian selected by MITSUI & Co for a study visit in Japan at important

japanese companies.

1991: first-place winner of the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research Fellowship

for a three-year doctorate in Science and Technology in Nuclear plants

1993: winner of a departmental fellowship from the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear

Engineering Department of the University of California at Los Angeles

1994 : Winner of a scholarship of the Polytechnic of Milan for post-laurea studies abroad.

13) PARTICIPATION TO CONFERENCES

- “NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Reliability and Safety Assessment of Dynamic

Process Systems”, Kusadasi (Turkey), August 24—28, 1992.

- “Probabilistic Safety Assessment PSA ‘93 International Topical Meeting”, Clearwater (Florida),

January 26 – 29, 1993.

- “ ESREL ‘93: European Safety and Reliability Conference “, Munich (Germany), May 10 – 12,

1993.

- “ IMORN ‘94: Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise”, Oybin (Germany), June 1993.

- “ SMIRT 12: Post Conference Seminar No. 15 on Current Issues in Probabilistic Safety

Assessment (PSA)”, Heidelberg (Germany), August 23-24, 1993.

- “ PSAM II: An International Conference Devoted to the Advancement of System-based Methods

for the Design and Operation of Technological Systems and Processes”, San Diego (USA),

March 20-25, 1994.

- “WM’95: HLW, LLW, Mixed Wastes and Environmental Restoration-Working Towards a

Cleaner Environment”, Tucson, Arizona, February 26 – March 2, 1995.

- “ICEM’95: Fifth International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and

Environmental Remediation” , Berlin, Germany, September 3-7, 1995.

- “IMACS’97: Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods”, Brussels, April 1-3, 1997.

- “ESREL97: European Safety and Reliability Conference”, Lisbon, June 17-20, 1997.

- “IMORN27: Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise”, Valencia, November 18-20, 1997.

- “SAMO98: Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output”,

Venezia, Italy, April 19—22, 1998.

- “Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods and Models for Applications in Energy and Technology”,

Karlsruhe, Germany, May 12-14, 1998.

- “ESREL’98 International Conference on Safety and Reliability”, 16-19 June, 1998, Trondheim,

Norway.

- “PSAM 4 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management”, 13-

18 September, 1998, New York City, USA.

- “Workshop on Dynamic Reliability: Future Directions”, 19-20 September, 1998, Greenbelt,

Maryland, USA.

- “VGR 98, Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti

Civili ed Industriali”, 6-8 Ottobre 1998, Pisa, Italy.

- “Second IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods”, Varna, Bulgaria, June 7 – 11, 1999.

- “ESREL’99 European Safety and Reliability Conference” 13-17 September, 1999, TUM

Munich- Garching, Germany.

- “ M&C’99, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in

Nuclear Applications, Madrid, Spain, 1999”

- “RAMS 2000, Reliability and Maintainability Symposium”, January 24-27, 2000, Los Angeles,

CA.

- “Transport Processes in Applied Physics and Risk Analysis. A Tribute to Jacques Devooght”,

Bruxelles, May 12, 2000 (Invited Presentation) .

- “ESREL’00 European Safety and Reliability Conference” 14-17 May, 2000, Edinburgh,

Scotland, UK.

- “SIMAI 2000, 5th National Congress of the Italian Society for Applied and Industrial

Mathematics”, 5-9 June 2000, Ischia, Italy (Invited Presentation).

- “MCS 2000, International Conference on Monte Carlo Simulation”, 18 –21 June 2000, Monte

Carlo, Principality of Monaco.

- “IMORN28: Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise”, Athens, October 11-13, 2000.

- “VGR2k: “Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti


- “Konbin 2001 Safety and Reliability International Conference”,May 22-25, 2001, Szcrzyrk,

Poland (Invited presentation as Keynote Speaker)

- “Samo 2001 Third International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, June 18-

20, 2001, Madrid-Spain

- “Third IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods”, September 10-14, 2001, Salzburg, Austria.

- “ESREL’01 European Safety and Reliability Conference” September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy.

- “ESREL'02-LAMBDA-MU 13” an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 19-21,

March, 2002, Lyon, France.

- “SMORN VIII, A symposium on Nuclear Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics”, Goteborg,

Sweden, 27-31 May, 2002.

- “MMR 2002, Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability”, 17-20

June, 2002, Trondheim, Norway.

- “PSAM 6 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management”, 23-

28 June, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.

- “Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting”, 8-13 September, 2002, Stroefjell Resort Hotel,

Gol Norway.

- “VGR2002: “Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti


- “ESREL’03 European Safety and Reliability Conference”, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18

June 2003.

- “MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods”, September 15-19, 2003, Berlin

- “3ASI: La protezione dell’ambiente, l’affidabilità dei sistemi e la sicurezza industriale”,

September 24-27, 2003, Alghero

- “RAMS2004:Annual Reliability and maintainability Symposium”, January 26-28, 2004, Los

Angeles, California

- “ESREL 2004/PSAM 7 European Safety and Reliability ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management PSAM 7”, Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004.

- “VGR2004: Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti

Civili ed Industriali, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy.

- “Halden Reactor Project Workshop on Wire Systems Aging Assessment and Condition

Monitoring”, October 28th-29th, 2004, Zurzack, Switzerland.

- “International Atomic Energy Agency Technical Meeting on “Increasing Instrument

Calibration Interval through On-line Monitoring Technologies”, 27th-29th September, 2004,

Halden, Norway.

- “RAMS 2005: Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium”, Alexandria (VA), January

24 – 27, 2005.

- “ESREL 2005 European Safety and Reliability Conference”, Tri-City, Poland, 27-30 June 2005.

- “ M&C 2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in

Nuclear Applications”, Avignon, France, 2005.

- “Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting”, 16-21 October, 2005, Lillehammerl, Norway.

- “International Conference on PRA/QRA Applications”, November 28, 2005, Taiwan.

- “Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk Management and Safety”, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong Kong.

- “ CNIP 2006, The International Conference on Complex Networks and Infrastructure

Protection”, Rome, Italy, 28-29 March, 2006.

- NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on "Computational Models of Risks to

Infrastructure" , Primosten, Croatia, May 9-13, 2006.

- “KONBIN’06, Safety and Reliability International Conference”, Poland, May 30-June 02, 2006.

(Invited Presentation as Keynote Speaker).

- “ICMSM 2006 International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Spain, June

28-July 2, 2006.


- “FLINS 2006, 7th International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence”, Genova, Italy,

August 29-31, 2006.

- “ESREL'06 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability”, 18-22, September, 2006,

Estoril, Portugal.

- “VGR2006: Convegno Nazionale sulla Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli Insediamenti


- “2006 Probabilistic/ Quantitative Risk Assessment Workshop”, 28-29 November 2006, Taipei,

Taiwan.

- “La Gestione Della Sicurezza nel Processo Chimico: Vincoli Normativi e Innovazione dei

Sistemi Strumentali, Milano, Italy, 27 February 2007.

- “City&Security, Rome, Italy, 30 March 2007 (Presentation on Quantitative Techniques for the

Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Network Systems and Infrastructures”

- ESREL 2007 European Safety and Reliability Conference, Stavanger, Norway, June 25-27,

2007.

Invited Presentation as Keynote Speaker).

- 1st Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland, July 22-29, 2007.


- 3rd International Conference on Maintenance and Facility Management (MM2007), Rome,


- Leuven Symposium on Applied Mechanics and Engineering – LSAME 2008, Leuven, Belgium,

March 31- April 2, 2008.


- Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Pre-Conference Workshop – PSAM 9, Taipei,

Taiwan, May 14- 16, 2008.


- Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference– PSAM 9, Hong Kong, May 19-

23, 2008.

- 2nd Summer Safety and Reliability Seminar (SSARS), Sopot, Poland, June 23-28, 2008.

(Invited Presentation as Lecturer).

- International Forum on Industrial Safety, Toulouse, France, July 8- 10, 2008.


- ESREL'08 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Valencia, Spain, September

22-25, 2008.

- “MMR 2009, 10th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability”, 22-26

June, 2009, Moskow.

- 2nd IFIS an International Forum on Industrrial Safety, Milano, Italy, 8-10 July, 2009.

- ICRMS’09 an International Conference on Reliability, Maintenance, Safety, Chengdu, China,

21-25 July, 2009.


- ESREL'09 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Prague, Czech Republic,

September 7-10, 2009.

- PHM 2010 the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2010, Macau,

China, January 12-14, 2010.


- SMRLO10, International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life

Science and Operations Management, February 8-11, 2010, Beer Sheva, Israel.


- 3rd IFIS International Forum on Industrial Safety, Toulouse, France, July 6- 8, 2010.

- SAMO 2010 Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, Milano, July 19-22, 2010.

- ESREL'10 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Rhodes, Greece, September 5-

10, 2010.

- 1st International Education Forum on Reliability and System Engineering, October 15th-16th,

2010, Beijing, China.


- ICQR2SM International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety ,

Xian, China, June 17- 19, 2011.


- PSA’11, Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis 2011, Wilmington, NC USA, March 13 -

17, 2011.

- MMR 2011, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Beijing, June 20-24.

- ESREL'11 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Troyes, France, 19-22

September 2011.

- 1st International Workshop on Safety & Security Risk Assessment and Organisational Cultures

(SSRAOC2012), Radisson Blu-Astrid Hotel, Antwerp, January 29-31, 2012.


- 1st International Symposium on Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Modeling

(Uncertainties 2012), Maresias, São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil, February 26 to March 2,

2012.


- Workshop of the Brazilian Safety and Reliability Association, Petrobras Headquarters, Rio de

Janeiro, March 2, 2012.


- Workshop on Resilience and risk assessment for critical infrastructures - JRC, Ranco 25/26

April 2012


- IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2012 (PHM 2012), Beijing,

China, May 24-26, 2012.


- ESREL 2012/PSAM 11 Joint Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management 11/European

Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2012, Helsinki, Finland, June 25-29 2012.


- KONBIN’13, Safety and Reliability International Conference, Poznan, Poland, May 13-16, 213.


- 10th TNCEIP Meeting on Interdependencies and Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection –

European Union Joint Research Centre-Ispra (JRC-Ispra), Ispra, Italy, 18-19 June 2013.


- MMR 2013, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 30-July 4,

2013.


- 4th RARC 4th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, Istanbul, Turkey,

27-29 August 2013.

- WMF 2013, World Maintenance Forum 2013, Lugano, Switzerland, 4-6, 2013.

(Invited Presentation).

- PHM 2013 the IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2013, Milano,


- ESREL 2013 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, Amsterdam, The

Netherlands, September 29 – October 2, 2013.

- CPEXPO, 1st Community Protection International Conference and Exhibition, Genova, Italy,

29-30 October 2013.


- 2nd Dean’s Forum on Resilience Engineering, Paris, France, 18-20 November 2013.


- IW-NTHS an International Workshop on Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics and Safety, Bhabba

Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India, January 13-15, 2014.


- Proabilistic Saferty Assessment and Management PSAM 12, Honolulu, USA, June 22-27, 2014.

- 2014: PHM-Europe 2014 the Prognostics and Health Management Conference-Europe 2014,

Nantes, France, July 8-10, 2014.

- 2015: ESREL 2015, European Safety and Reliability, Zurich, Switzerland, September 17-10,

2015.

14) CONTRACTS

1999. Winner of a research fellowship of Lit. 10 ML from the Politecnico di Milano within the

“Progetto Giovani Ricercatori” (Young Researchers Project) for an activity concerning the

“Development of innovative methodologies for the optimization of the transport of dangerous

substances”.

2000: Partecipant to the contract with ENEA, with the title “Definition of the main chemical and

physical processes which regulate the diffusion and transport of radionuclides through the

artificial barriers in a radioactive waste disposal site. Development of a stochastic model and

implementation in a Monte Carlo code.” Lit. 150 ML.

2000. Principal Investigator of the contract n° P1623, ref. AO/035384/EI/RC with CESI, BU-

Generation process, with the title “Development of a neural model for the control of

pulverized coal combustion”. Lit. 24 ML.

2001. Participant within the “Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Ricerca Tecnologica Nucleare”

(CIRTEN) to the project “Reliability Methods for Passive Systems (RMPS)” sponsored by

the European Union within the Fifth Framework Programme and coordinated by the French

Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique. Other partners are the Italian Ente per le Nuove

tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA), the German Gesellschaft fuer Anlagen- und

Reaktorsicherheit GmbH, the Joint Research Center-Ispra of the European Union, the French

Technicatome. Euros 185,000 for CIRTEN.

2001-2004. Task Leader of two tasks, and members of three others, in the Thematic Network

“SAFERELNET: SAFEty and RELiability NETwork” composed by 34 members from 11

countries and financed by the European Union of the Fifth Framework Programme for a total

of 2,108,000 Euros. SAFERELNET involves 15 industrial partners, 10 Universities, 6

Research Organisations and 3 others. Several industries are reflected in the areas of the

members: Oil and Gas Sector, Maritime Transportation, Motorways, Bridge, Railway,

Building Construction, Process and Energy.

2001: Participant to the contract with ENEA, with the title “Computations for the uncertainty

evaluation in a stochastic model for the transport of Pu238, U234 and Ni59, with respect to

the barrier degradation parameters in a radioactive waste disposal site.” Lit 45 ML.

2001: Principal Investigator of the contract with Elasis SCpA with the title “Feasibility analysis of

the use of soft computing techniques, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, for predicting the

failure rates of automotive systems and components during the different periods of the product

development.” Lit. 15 ML.

2001: Principal Investigator of the contract with Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, with the title

“Reliability analysis of a safety system in the National Laboratories of Gran Sasso.” Lit 29

ML.

2003: Principal Investigator of the contract with Pirelli Cavi with the title “Investigating the use of

soft computing techniques, neural networks and/or fuzzy logic, in the development of

predictive models of the fire response of power cables.” kEuro 15.

2003-2004: Scientific Investigator of the research unit of the project MIUR “Study of the effects of

uncertainty on the risk assessment of complex technological system” kEuro 51,6.

2003-2005: Responsible of the 3-year PhD fellowship contract with Institutt for energiteknikk

OECD Halden Reactor Project, Norway, with the title “Soft Computing Methods for

Monitoring Emission of CO2 and NOx” kEuro 18/year.

2006: Principal Investigator of the contract with Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), with the title

“Explorative study on the feasibility of using fuzzy logic models in human reliability analysis:

application to the treatment of human actions dependencies” kEuro 3.

2006: Principal Investigator of the contract with Varian Inc., with the title “Development of Soft

Computing Models (neural networks and/or genetic algorithms and/or fuzzy logic) for the

optimization of the balancing procedures of turbomolecular pumps” kEuro 27.

2006: Principal Investigator of the contract with Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra, with the title

“Modelling of a new non-linear functional behaviours for Data Analysis and Interpretation

(DAI-DLL)” kEuro 13.

2006-2007: Scientific Investigator of the research unit of the project MIUR “Methods of evaluation

of uncertainties in the risk assessment of complex technological systems: application to an

Hydrogen Refuelling Station.” kEuro 55,7.


OECD Halden Reactor Project, Norway, with the title “Development of Computational

Methods for Diagnostics and Prognostics” kEuro 18/year.

2007: Principal Investigator of the contract with Hyundai Industrial Research Institute, Republic of

Korea, with the title “Development of a Monte Carlo Simulation Method for the Estimation

of the Production Availability of Offshore Production Facilities” kDollars 30.

2007: Principal Investigator of the contract with Fondation Pour Une Culture De Securite Industrielle,

France, with the title “Quantitative techniques for the vulnerability analysis of critical

network systems and Infrastructure ” kEuro 132.

2007: Principal Investigator of the contract with Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), with the title

“Methods for verifying expert models based on Fuzzy Sets in the context of HRA

applications” kEuro 12.

2007-2010: Principal Investigator of the post-doc fellowship contract of Politecnico di Milano,

Italy, with the title “Safety of complex network systems and critical infrastructures” kEuro

15/year.

2008: Responsible of the fund for an invited professor from USA (3 months) kEuro 10.

2008-2010: Responsible of the 3-year PhD fellowship contract with CESI Ricerche, Italy, with the

title “Reliability of electrical components” kEuro 14/year.

2008: Principal Investigator of the contract with Electricite’ de France (EdF) with the title

“Investigation on advanced computational methods for modelling the mechanisms of

degradation in equipment of electricity production plants” kEuro 30.

2008 -2010: Principal Investigator of the contract with ENEA with the title “Performance

Assessment: modelling of the contaminant dispersion phenomena across the protection

barriers of a radioactive waste repository and methodology of the probabilistic risk analysis”

kEuro 70.


OECD Halden Reactor Project, Norway, with the title “Advanced Computational

Methods for Diagnostics, Prognostics and Control” kEuro 22/year.

2009: Principal Investigator of the contract with Fondation Pour Une Culture De Securite

Industrielle, France, with the title “Quantitative methods of uncertainty representation and

modelling in risk analysis for decision-making practice” kEuro 100.

2009: Principal Investigator of the contract with Electricite’ de France (EdF), with the title

“Advanced computational methods for condition monitoring of components of electricity

production plants” kEuro 50.

2009: Principal Investigator of the contract with Techint with the title “Production performance

prediction of the solar energy pant with parabolic collectors X-ite trough” kEuro 80.

2009: Principal Investigator of the contracts with FAECO and CRC for “Fire risk analysis of a

waste treatment plant” kEuro 34.

2009: External Peer Review contract on the “Quantitative Risk Analysis of an LNG Receiving

Plant” by the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research”, kEuro 16.

2010-2012: Principal Investigator of the contract with Electricite’ de France (EdF) with the title

“Advanced computational methods for modelling the mechanisms of degradation in

equipments of electricity production plants and uncertainty modelling and propagation” kEuro

40/year

2010-2011: Principal Investigator of the contract with Fundacao de Apoyo ao Desenvolvimento de

la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil, with the title “Prognostics in Oil production”

kEuro 35.


“Processing condition monitoring data for diagnosis and prognosis of components of electricity

production plants” kEuro 60

2011: Principal Investigator of the contract on the “Vulnerability Analysis of Nuclear Power

Transmission Network part I” by the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, kEuro 22.

2011-2012: Principal Investigator of the joint project Ecole Centrale Paris- Beihang University

Beijing (LIA 2MCSI) on Modelling of Ageing Components for System Reliability Analysis and

Risk Assessment, kEuro 10.

2012: Principal Investigator of the contract on the “Vulnerability Analysis of Nuclear Power

Transmission Network part II” by the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research”, kEuro 22.

2012-2016: Principal Investigator of the contract “REFERENCE, Research NEtwork on FlExible

Risk AssEssmeNt and DeCision SciencE”, within the PEOPLE MARIE CURIE ACTIONS for

International Research Staff Exchange, in the FP7-Seventh Framework Program of the European

Unione, kEuro 75,8.

2010 -2012: Principal Investigator of the contract with ENEA with the title “Performance

Assessment: modelling of the contaminant dispersion phenomena across the protection

barriers of a radioactive waste repository and methodology of the probabilistic risk analysis”

kEuro 70.


“Méthodes pour le pronostic de défaillances des matériels des centrales de production

d’energie” kEuro 30

2013 -2014: Principal Investigator of the contract with the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research,

with the title “The Study for Uncertainty Analysis of Seismic Probabilistic Risk Assessment”

kEuro 120.


“Processing condition monitoring data for diagnosis and prognosis of components in a fleet of

electricity production plants” kEuro 60.


“Développement de méthodes pour modéliser la dégradation et la maintenance des

composants critiques et d'un cadre pour intégrer les informations et données de natures

différentes” kEuro 45.

2015: Principal Investigator of the contract with Pirelly Tyre s.p.a., with the title “Development of a

a methodology to estimate the risk reduction upon the introduction of safety barriers”, KEuro

31.

2015-2017: Principal Investigator of the contract with Petrobras with the title “Methods and

software for probabilistic casing design: development, training and dissemination” kEuro 255.

ENRICO ZIO

Via Fratelli Cervi-Residenza Poggio

Milano Due

I-20090 SEGRATE

LIST OF WORKS A total of 733 works (Figure 2) distributed as follows: 10 international books, 15 guest editorials on

international journals, 1 editorial on proceedings of international conferences, 1 editorial on international

tutorial book, 334 international journal papers, 24 contributions on international books, 3335 papers on

proceedings of international conferences, 2 national journal papers, 14 papers on proceedings of national

(Italian) conferences, 1 set of lecture notes, 13 technical reports.

Editor of 9 special issues of international journals and of 2 sets of proceedings and 1 book of tutorial lecture

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A. International books (10)

1. E. Zio, M. Demichela, N. Piccinini, Eds. “Safety and Reliability, Proceedings of ESREL 2001, an

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy”,

Politecnico di Torino, 2001.

2. E. Zio, M. Demichela, N. Piccinini, Eds. “Safety and Reliability, Tutorials Notes of ESREL 2001,

an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy.”,


3. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Basics of the Monte Carlo Method with Application to System

Reliability”, LiLoLe-Verlag GmbH (Publ. Co. Ltd.), 2002.

4. C.G. Guedes Soares, E. Zio, Eds. “Safety and Reliability in Managing Risk”, Balkema, 2006.

5. E. Zio, “An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis”, World Scientific

Publishing, 2007.

6. E. Zio, “Computational Methods for Reliability and Risk Analysis”, World Scientific Publishing,

2009.

7. P. Baraldi, F. Cadini and E. Zio, “Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis: Worked Out Problems

and Solutons”, World Scientific Publishing, 2011.

8. W. Kroger and E. Zio, “Vulnerable Systems”, Springer, 2011.

9. E. Zio, “The Monte Carlo Simulation Method for System Reliability and Risk Analysis”,

Springer, 2013.

10. P. Baraldi, R. Flage, T. Aven, E. Zio, “Uncertainty in Risk Assessment”, Wiley, 2014.

B. Editorials (15)

1. E. Zio, M. Demichela, N. Piccinini, Eds. “Safety and Reliability, Proceedings of ESREL 2001, an

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy.”,


2. E. Zio, M. Demichela, N. Piccinini, Eds. “Safety and Reliability, Tutorials Notes of ESREL 2001,



3. E. Zio, Guest Editorial, Risk Decision and Policy, vol. 7, pp. 1-5, 2002.

4. E. Zio, Guest Editorial, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 77, pp 211-215, 2002.

5. E. Zio, Guest Editorial, Risk, Decision and Policy, vol. 8,pp.77-80, 2003.

6. T. Bedford and E. Zio, Guest Editorial, Risk, Decision and Policy, vol. 9, pp.191-192, 2004.

7. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and F. Cadini, Guest Editorial, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2,

No. 3, pp. 199-203, 2007.

8. E. Zio, C. Guedes Soares, Guest Editorial, Journal of Risk and Reliability, vol. 222, pp i-iii,

2008.

9. E. Zio, C. Guedes Soares, Guest Editorial, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 93, pp

1779-1780, 2008.

10. E. Zio, J.K. Vaurio, Guest Editorial, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 94, pp. 1, 2009.

11. E. Zio, C. Guedes Soares, Guest Editorial, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 41, pp. 1131-

1132, 2009.

12. R. Setola, E. Zio, Guest Editorial, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management,

vol. 15, no. 2 and 3, pp. 95-98, 2011.

13. E. Zio, B. Ale, I. Papazoglou, Guest Editorial, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 105,

pp. 1-2, 2012.

14. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, "Guest Editorial", International Journal of Performability

Engineering, Vol. 10(5), pp. 440-442, 2014

15. X-S. Si, C.-H. Hu, E. Zio and G. Li, Modeling for Prognostics and Health Management:

Methods and Applications, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015, pp. 1-4.

C. International journals (334)

1. M. Marseguerra, S. Minoggio, A. Rossi, E. Zio: "Neural Networks Prediction and Fault

Diagnosis Applied to Stationary and Non Stationary Arma Modeled Time Series" , Progress in

Nuclear Energy, vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 25 -- 36, 1992.

2. M. Marseguerra, S. Minoggio, A. Rossi, E. Zio: "Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Multiple

Signals in Nuclear Technology" , Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 297 - 304, 1992.

3. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Nonlinear Monte Carlo Reliability Analysis with Biasing Towards Top

Event", Reliability Engineering and System Safety 40, pp. 31 -- 42, 1993.

4. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Identification of a Line Break by a Neural Network Methodology" ,

Annals of Nuclear Energy, vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 249 - 258, 1994.

5. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Fault Diagnosis via Neural Networks: The Boltzmann Machine",

Nuclear Science and Engineering, vol. 117, pp. 194 - 200, 1994.

6. M. Marseguerra, M. Nutini, E. Zio: "Approximate Physical Modelling in Dynamic PSA Using

Artificial Neural Networks", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 45, pp. 47 - 56, 1994.

7. E. Zio: "Biasing the Transition Probabilities in Direct Monte Carlo", Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, vol. 47, pp.59-63, 1995.

8. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "The Cell-To-Boundary Method in Monte Carlo-Based Dynamic PSA",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 48, pp.199-204, 1995.

9. M. Marseguerra, M. Ricotti, E. Zio, Approaching System Evolution in Dynamic PSA by Neural

Networks", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 49, pp. 91-99, 1995.

10. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Monte Carlo Approach to PSA for Dynamic Process Systems",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Special Issue on Reliability and Safety Analysis of

Dynamic Process Systems, Vol. 52, pp. 227-241, 1996.

11. E. Zio, "On the Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in the Aggregation of Expert Judgments",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 53, 1996, pp. 127-138.

12. M. Marseguerra, M. Ricotti, E. Zio, "Neural Network-Based Fault Detections in A PWR

Pressurizer", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 124, 1996, pp. 339-348.

13. E. Zio: "Approaching the Inverse Problem of Parameter Estimation in Groundwater Models by

Means of Artificial Neural Networks", Progress in Nuclear Energy, 1997, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 303-

315.

14. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis:"Two Methods for the Structured Assessment of Model Uncertainty by

Experts in Performance Assessment of Radioactive Waste Repositories", Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, 54, 1996, pp. 225-241.

15. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis: "Accounting for Expert-to-Expert Variability:A Potential Source of

Bias in Performance Assessments of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories", Annals of

Nuclear Energy, Vol. 24, No. 10, 1997. pp. 752-762.

16. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Modeling the Transport of Contaminants in Groundwater as a

Branching Stochastic Process, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 24, No. 8, 1997, pp. 625-644.

17. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Contaminant Transport in Bidimensional Porous Media Via

Biased Monte Carlo Simulation", Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 25, No. 16, 1998, pp. 1301-1316.

18. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, J. Devooght, P.E. Labeau, "A Concept Paper on Dynamic Reliability

via Monte Carlo Simulation", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 47, No. 2-5, 1998,

pp. 371-383.

19. P. E. Labeau, E. Zio, "The Cell-to-Boundary Method in the Frame of Memorization-Based

Monte Carlo Algorithms. A New Computational Improvement in Dynamic Reliability", Mathematics

and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 47, No. 2-5, 1998, 329-347.

20. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Monte Carlo Simulation of the Effects of Human Intrusion on

Groundwater Contaminant Transport", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 47, No. 2-

5, 1998, 361-369.

21. E. Zio, “Most Likely” Directions in the Field of Rare Events Simulation, Invited Expert

Statement in Special issue on rare event simulation, International Journal of Electronics and

Communications, 52, No. 3, 1998, pp. 118 – 119.

22. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Weight Updating In Forced Monte Carlo Approach To Dynamic

Psa", Monte Carlo Methods, 4, N 4, 1998, pp. 359-374.

23. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, "The Impact of the Operating Environment on the Design

of Redundant Configurations", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 63, 1999, pp. 155 - 160.

24. M.E. Ricotti and E. Zio, "Neural Network Approach to Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 64, 1999, pp. 59 - 71.

25. R. Accorsi, G. Apostolakis and E. Zio "Prioritizing Stakeholder Concerns in Environmental

Risk Management" Journal of Risk Research, 2, 1999, pp. 11 – 29.

26. R. Accorsi, E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, “Developing Utility Functions for Environmental

Decision Making”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1999, pp. 387 – 41.

27. R. Masini, E. Padovani, M.E. Ricotti, E. Zio “Dynamic Simulation of a Steam Generator by

Neural Networks”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 187, 1999, pp. 197 – 213.

28. A. Ferrara, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “A Comparison Between the Advection-Dispersion and the

Kolmogorov-Dmitriev Model for Groundwater Contaminant Transport”, Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 26, 1999, pp. 1083 – 1096.

29. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, “Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Within a Methodology For

Evaluating Environmental Restoration Technologies”, Computer Physics Communications, 117,

1999, pp. 1 –10.

30. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, " Monte Carlo Approach To the Detectability of a Gamma Source

Within a Scrap-Iron Truckload", Nuclear Technology, 126, N 3, 1999, pp. 279-288.

31. R. Accorsi, M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, “Neural Estimation of First-Order Sensitivity

Coefficients: Application to the Control of a Simulated Pressurized Water Reactor”, Nuclear

Science and Engineering, 132, n 3, 1999, pp. 326 – 336.

32. E. Zio, “Decision Making in Environmental Management: A Game Theoretic Approach”,

Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Restoration, 21, 1999, pp. 211-233.

33. E. Borgonovo, M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “A Monte Carlo Methodological Approach to Plant

Availability Modeling with Maintenance, Aging and Obsolescence”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 67, 2000, pp. 59 - 71.

34. M. Cantoni, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for

Optimal Plant Design", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 68, 2000, pp. 29 - 38.

35. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Optimizing Maintenance and Repair Policies via a Combination of

Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation ", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 68,

2000, pp. 69 - 83.

36. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Biasing in Reliability Calculations with Deterministic

Repair Times”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 27, 2000, pp. 639 - 648.

37. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “System Unavailability Calculations in Biased Monte Carlo

Simulation: a Possible Pitfall”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 27, 2000, pp. 1589 - 1605.

38. E. Zio, “A Formal Structure for the Treatement of Site-Representation Uncertainty in

Performance Assessments of Nuclear Waste Repositories”, Radioactive Waste Management and

Env. Res., 22, 2000, pp. 135 – 161.

39. P. Giuggioli Busacca, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Multiobjective Optimization by Genetic

Algorithms: Application to Safety Systems", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 72, 2001,

pp. 59 - 74.

40. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Looking at Monte Carlo simulation for describing nonlinear sorption

in groundwater contaminant transport”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 55 , 2001, pp.

167-176.

41. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, “Effects of model variability on the safeguard analysis of

gamma-contaminated truck loads”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 55, 2001, pp.159-

166.

42. M. Marseguerra, E. Patelli, E. Zio, “Groundwater contaminant transport in presence of colloids

I. A stochastic nonlinear model and parameter identification”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 28, 2001,

pp.777-803.


II: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis on literature case studies”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 28,

2001, pp.1799-1807.

44. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Genetic Algorithms for Estimating Effective Parameters in a Lumped

Reactor Model for Reactivity Predictions”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 139, September 2001,

pp.96-104.

45. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Solving the inverse problem of parameter estimation by

genetic algorithms: the case of a groundwater contaminant transport model.” Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 29, 8, May 2002, pp.967-981.

46. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Cadini, “Biased Monte Carlo unavailability analysis for systems

with time-dependent failure rates”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 76, 2002, pp. 11 -

17.

47. S. Eisinger, E. Zio “Optimization of Airport Logistics by Genetic Algorithms”, Risk Decision

and Policy, vol. 7, 2002, pp. 7-23.

48. J. Barata, C.G. Soares, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Simulation modelling of repairable multi-

component deteriorating systems for 'on condition' maintenance optimisation”, Reliability

Engineering and System Safety, 76, 2002, pp. 255-264.

49. P.E. Labeau, E. Zio, “Procedures of Monte Carlo transport simulation for applications in

system engineering”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,77 , 2002, pp 217-228.

50. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Condition-based maintenance optimization by means of

genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,77 ,

2002, pp 151-165.

51. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, E. Patelli, F. Giacobbo, P. Risoluti, G. Ventura, G. Mingrone,

“Modeling the effects of the engineered barriers of a radioactive waste repository by Monte Carlo

simulation” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 30, 4, 2003, pp.473-496.

52. M. Marseguerra, R. Masini, E. Zio, G. Cojazzi, “Variance decomposition-based sensitivity

analysis via neural networks”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,79 , 2003, pp 229-238.

53. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, E. Patelli, F. Giacobbo, G. Ventura, G. Mingrone, “Monte Carlo

simulation of contaminant release from a radioactive waste deposit”, Mathematics and Computers

in Simulation, 62, 2003, pp 421–430.

54. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Model-free fuzzy tracking control of a nuclear reactor”, Annals of

Nuclear Energy, 30, 9, June 2003, pp 953-981.

55. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Cipollone, “Desigining Optimal Degradation Tests via Multi-

Objective Genetic Algorithms”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,79 , 2003, pp 87-94.

56. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Model parameters estimation and sensitivity by genetic

algorithms”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 30, 14, September 2003, pp 1437-1456.

57. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, A. Oldrini, “Fuzzy Logic for Signal Prediction in Nuclear

Systems”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 43, No. 1-4, 2003, pp. 373-380.

58. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, G. Torri, “Power Density Axial Oscillations Induced by Xenon

Dynamics: Parameter Identification via Genetic Algorithms”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 43, No.

1-4, 2003, pp. 365-72.

59. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Monte Carlo simulation analysis of the effects of different system

performance levels on the importance of multi-state components”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 82, 2003, pp 63-73.

60. T. Aldemir, G. Torri, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, J.A. Borkowski, “Using point reactor models and

genetic algorithms for on-line global xenon estimation in nuclear reactors”, Nuclear Technology,

143, No. 3, 2003, pp. 247-255.

61. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Sensitivity analysis and fuzzy modeling for passive systems reliability

assessment”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31, 3, February 2004, pp 277-301.

62. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, A. Oldrini, E. Brega, “Fuzzy identification of transients in nuclear

power plants”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 255, 2003, pp. 285-294

63. G.Levitin, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Generalised importance measures for multi-state elements

based on performance level restrictions”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 82, 2003, pp.

287-298

64. E. Zio, “A decision making framework for environmental management”, Risk Decision and

Policy, 8, 2003, pp. 25-49

65. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Importance Measures of Multi-State Components in Multi-State

System”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 10, 2003, pp. 289-310

66. E. Zio, M. Cantarella, A. Cammi, “The analytic hierarchy process as a systematic approach to

the identification of important parameters for the reliability assessment of passive systems”,

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 226, 2003, pp. 311-336

67. D.C. Ionescu, E. Zio, A. C. Costantinescu, “Embedding Monte Carlo simulation within the

stochastic Petri network formalism for the evaluation of the availability of a nuclear safety system”,

Risk Decision and Policy, 8, 2003, pp. 133-142

68. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “A multiobjective genetic algorithm approach to the

optimization of the technical specifications of a nuclear safety system” Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 84, 2004, pp 87-99

69. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Avogadri, “Model identification by neuro-fuzzy techniques:

predicting the water level in a steam generator of a pwr” Progress in Nuclear Energy, 44, No. 3,

2004, pp. 237-252.

70. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, “Using Genetic Algorithms for Calibrating Simplified

Models of Nuclear Reactor Dynamics”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31, 3, 2004, pp 1219-1250.

71. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte Carlo estimation of the differential importance measure:

application to the protection system of a nuclear reactor”, Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, 86, 2004, pp. 11-24.

72. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Marcucci, “A soft-computing based classification procedure for the

identification of transients in the steam generator of a pressurized water reactor”, Annals of

Nuclear Energy, 31, 2004, pp 1429-1446.

73. E. Zio,L. Podofillini, G.Levitin, “Estimation of the importance measures of multi-state elements

by Monte Carlo simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 86, 2004, pp. 191-204.

74. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Optimal Reliability/Availability of Uncertain Systems

via Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms”, IEEE Trans. On Reliability, 53, 2004, pp. 424-434.

75. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Multiobjective Spare Part Allocation By Means Of

Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 87,

2005, pp. 325-335.

76. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “A Fuzzy Modeling Approach to the Identification of

Transients in Nuclear Components”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31, 2004, pp 2093-2112.

77. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, A Nuclear Measurement

Technique of Water Penetration in Concrete Barriers, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol.

10, N. 3-4, 2004, pp. 415-422.

78. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Bosi, System Availability and Reliability Analysis by Direct Monte

Carlo with Biasing, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol. 10, N. 3-4, 2004, pp. 423-434.

79. E. Zio, A. Cammi, A. Cioncolini, Dagger-sampling Variance Reduction in Monte Carlo

Reliability Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol. 10, N. 3-4, 2004, pp. 641-652.

80. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Bianchi, A Fuzzy Modeling Approach to Road Transport with

Application to a Case of Spent Nuclear Fuel Transport, Nuclear Technology, June 2004, Vol. 146,

N. 3, pp. 290-302.

81. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “First-Order Sensitivity Analysis of a Nuclear Safety

System by Monte Carlo Simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 90, 2005, pp. 162-

168.

82. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Identification of Nuclear Transients via Optimized Fuzzy Clustering”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 2005, pp 1068-1080.

83. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Evolutionary Fuzzy Clustering for the Classification of Transients in

Nuclear Components”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 46, 2005, pp 282-296.

84. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Cadini, “Genetic Algorithm Optimization of a Model-Free Fuzzy

Control System”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 2005, pp 712-728.

85. C. M. Rocco and E. Zio, “Solving Advanced Network Reliability Problems by Means of Cellular

Automata and Monte Carlo Sampling”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 89, 2005, pp.

219-226.

86. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, D. Roverso, “An Extended Classifiability Index for Feature Selection in

Nuclear Transients” , Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 2005, pp 1632-1649.

87. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini and D. W. Coit, “Optimal Design of Reliable Network

Systems in Presence of Uncertainty”, IEEE Trans. On Reliability, 54, 2005, pp 243-253.

88. L. Podofillini, E. Zio and J. Vatn, “Risk-informed optimisation of railway tracks inspection and

maintenance procedures”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91, 2006, pp. 20-35.

89. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, V. Zille, “A Combination of Monte Carlo Simulation and Cellular

Automata for Computing the Availability of Complex Network Systems”, Reliability Engineering


90. E. Zio, G. Gola, “Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Classification for Fault Diagnosis” , Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 33, 2006, pp. 415-426.

91. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, E. Patelli, “Assessment of the Availability of an Offshore Installation by

Monte Carlo Simulation”, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 83, 2006, pp. 312-

320.

92. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and R. Canetta, “Estimation of Effective Parameters in a Lumped

Nuclear Reactor Model Using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms”, Nuclear Science and

Engineering, 153, 2006, pp. 124-136.

93. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, I. C. Popescu and P. Ulmeanu, “A Fuzzy Logic-Based

Model for the Classification of Faults in the Pump Seals of the Primary Heat Transport System of a

CANDU & Reactor”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 153, 2006, pp. 157-171.

94. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, S. Martorell, “Basics of Genetic Algorithms Optimization for RAMS

Applications”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91, 2006, pp. 977-991.

95. E. Zio, “A Study of the Bootstrap Method for Estimating the Accuracy of Artificial Neural

Networks in Predicting Nuclear Transient Processes’, IEEE Trans. On Nucl. Sci., 53, N. 3, 2006,

pp. 1460-1478.

96. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “Quantitative Developments in the Cognitive Reliability

and Error Analysis Method (CREAM) for the Assessment of Human Performance”, Annals of

Nuclear Energy, 33, 2006, pp. 894-910.

97. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Accounting for Components Interactions in the Differential Importance

Measure”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91, 2006, pp. 1163-1174.

98. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and F. Cadini, “Optimized Fuzzy Controller of the Water Level of a

Pressurized Water Reactor Steam Generator”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 155, 2007, pp.

386-394.

99. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and M. Librizzi, “Human Reliability Analysis by Fuzzy “CREAM””,

Risk Analysis, Vol. 27, No.1, 2007, pp. 137-154.

100. C. M. Rocco S. and E. Zio, “A Support Vector Machine Integrated System for the

Classification of Operation Anomalies in Nuclear Components and Systems”, Reliability


101. E. Zio, M. Marella and L. Podofillini, “A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to the Availability

Assessment of Multi-State Systems with Operational Dependencies”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 92, 2007, pp. 871-882.

102. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, G. Gola, D. Roverso and M. Hoffmann, Diagnosing Faults in Nuclear

Components by an Ensemble of Feature-Diverse Fuzzy Classifiers, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge

Management, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 224-238, 2007.

103. E. Zio and I. C. Popescu, Fuzzy-Logic-Based Identification of Transients in the Feedwater

System of a Nuclear Power Plant, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 249-

267, 2007.

104. F. Cadini, E. Zio and F. Di Maio, A Neural-Network-Based Variance Decomposition

Sensitivity Analysis, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 299-312, 2007.

105. D.E. Salazar, C.M. Rocco and E. Zio, Robust Reliability Design of a Nuclear System by

Multiple Objective Evolutionary Optimisation, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No.

3, pp. 333-345, 2007.

106. E. Zio, M. Marella and L. Podofillini, “Importance Measures-Based Prioritization for

Improving the Performance of Multi-State Systems: Application to the Railway Industry”,


107. E. Zio and I. C. Popescu, Recognizing Signal Trends On-Line by a Fuzzy-Logic-Based

Methodology Optimized via Genetic Algorithms, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence,

vol. 20, 2007, pp. 831-849.

108. E. Zio and V. Zille, Multi-Objective Optimization of Network Systems by Using ANT

Algorithms, International Journal of Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Volume 4,

Number 2, 2007, pp. 211-224.

109: E. Zio and Claudio M. Rocco, Security Assessment in Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist

Hazard: A Simulation Approach, Int. J. Critical Infrastructures Vol. 4, Nos.1/2, 2008, pp. 80-95.

110: E. Zio and G. Sansavini, A Systematic Procedure for Analysing Network Systems, Int. J.

Critical Infrastructures, Vol. 4, Nos.1/2, 2008, pp. 172-184.

111: E. Zio, G. Sansavini, R. Maja and G. Marchionni, An Analytical Approach to the Safety of

Road Networks, Int. J. of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 154, No.1, 2008, pp. 67-

76.

112. E. Zio, F. Di Maio and S. Martorell, Fusion of Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic

Algorithms for Multi-Objective System Reliability Design Optimization, J. of Risk and Reliability,

vol. 222, pp. 115-126, 2008.

113. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso and M. Hoffmann, “Genetic Algorithms for Signal

Grouping in Sensor Validation: A Comparison of the Filter and Wrapper Approaches”, J. of Risk

and Reliability, vol. 222, pp. 189-206, 2008.

114. E. Zio P. Baraldi and I. C. Popescu, “A Fuzzy Decision Tree for Fault Classification”, Risk

Analysis, Vol. 28, No.1, 2008, pp. 49-67.

115. Various Authors (including E. Zio), “IEEE Reliability Society – Annual Technical Report

2007”, IEEE Trans. On Reliability, vol. 57, No. 3, 2008, pp. 398-424 (402-403 contribution of E.

Zio).

116. F. Cadini, E. Zio, V. Kopustinkas, R. Urbonas, “A Model Based on Bootstrapped Neural

Networks for Computing the Maximum Fuel Cladding Temperature in an RBMK-1500 Nuclear

Reactor Accident”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 238, 2008, pp. 2165 – 2172.

117. P. Baraldi and E. Zio, “A Combined Monte Carlo and Possibilistic Approach to Uncertainty

Propagation in Event Tree Analysis”, Risk Analysis, Vol. 28, No.5, 2008, pp. 1309-25.

118. D.E. Salazar, C.M. Rocco and E. Zio, “Optimal Protection of Complex Networks Exposed to a

Terrorist Hazard: A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach”, J. of Risk and Reliability, vol. 222,

2008, pp. 327-335.

119. E. Zio, “Risk-Informed Regulation: Handling Uncertainty for a Rational Management of

Safety”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2008, pp. 327-348

120. L. Podofillini and E. Zio, “Designing a Risk-Informed Balanced System by Genetic

Algorithms: Comparison of Different Balancing Criteria”, Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, vol 93, No. 12, 2008, pp. 1842-1852.

121. P. Secchi, E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Quantifying uncertainties in the estimation of safety parameters

by using bootstrapped artificial neural networks”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 35, No. 12,

2008, pp. 2338-2350.

122. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, “Model-Based Monte Carlo State Estimation for Condition-

Based Component Replacement”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 3, 2008,

pp. 752-758.

123. E. Zio and F. Di Maio, “Bootstrap and Order Statistics for Quantifying Thermal-Hydraulic

Code Uncertainties in the Estimation of Safety Margins”, Science and Technology of Nuclear

Installations, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 340164, 9 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/340164.

124. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, “Building Confidence in the Reliability Assessment of Thermal-

Hydraulic Passive Systems”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 1, 2009, pp.

268-281.

125. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, "Estimation of the Functional Failure Probability of a Thermal-

Hydraulic Passive System by Subset Simulation", Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol 239, No. 3,

2009, pp. 580-599.

126. E. Zio, M. Broggi and N. Pedroni, "Nuclear Reactor Dynamics On-line Estimation by Locally

Recurrent Neural Networks", Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol 51, No. 3, 2009, pp. 573-581.

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127. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and N. Pedroni, "Optimal Power System Generation Scheduling by Multi

Objective Genetic Algorithms with Preferences", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94,

No. 2, 2009, pp. 432-444.

128. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, "A fuzzy set-based approach for

modeling dependence among human errors", Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 60, No.13, 2009, pp.

1947-1964.

129. F. Cadini, E. Zio and D. Avram, "Monte Carlo-based Filtering for Fatigue Crack Growth

Estimation", Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2009, pp. 367-373.

130. I. Eusgeld, W. Kroger, G. Sansavini, M. Schlapfer and E. Zio, "The role of network theory and

object-oriented modeling within a framework for the vulnerability analysis of critical

infrastructures", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 5, 2009, pp. 954–963.

131. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E.Zio, “A method for ranking components importance in presence of

epistemic uncertainties", Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Vol. 22, 2009, pp.

582-592.

132. E. Zio and G. Gola, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Fault Diagnosis and its Application to

Rotating Machinery”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 1, 2009, pp. 78-88.

133. C.M. Rocco, D.E. Salazar and E. Zio, “Application of Advanced Computational Techniques to

the Vulnerability Assessment of Network Systems Exposed to Uncertain Harmful Events”,

International Journal of Performability Engineering, vol. 5, No. 1, 2009, pp. 71-84.

134. E. Zio P. Baraldi and I. C. Popescu, “A Fuzzy Decision Tree for Fault Classification in the

Steam Generator of a Pressurized Water Reactror”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 36, 2009, pp.

1159-1169.

135. F. Cadini, E. Zio “Model-based Monte Carlo state estimation for condition-based component

replacement”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, doi:10.1016/j.ress.2008.08.003, 94, n. 3,

pp. 752-758.

136. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “A Data-Driven Fuzzy Approach for Predicting the Remaining Useful Life

in Dynamic Failure Scenarios of a Nuclear Power Plant”, Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, RESS, 10.1016/j.ress.2009.08.001, 2009.

137. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Processing Dynamic Scenarios from a Reliability Analysis of a Nuclear

Power Plant Digital Instrumentation and Control System”, Annals of Nuclear Energy,

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2009.06.012, 2009.

138. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, "Functional Failure Analysis of a Thermal-Hydraulic Passive System

by Means of Line Sampling", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 9, No. 11, pp. 1764-

1781, 2009.

139. G. Sansavini, M. R. Hajj, I. K. Puri and E. Zio, "A Deterministic Representation of Cascade

Spreading in Complex Networks", Europhysics Letters, 87(4), 48004, August 2009.

140. P. Baraldi, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Application of a Niched Pareto Genetic Algorithm for

Selecting Features for Nuclear Transients Classification”, International Journal of Computational

Intelligence Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2009, pp. 118-151.

141. P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, V. N. Dang, "Two Tecchniques of Sensitivity

and Uncertainty Analysis of Fuzzy Expert Systems", Expert Systems with Applications,Vol.36,

No.10, 2009, pp.12461–12471.

142. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, “Importance Measure in Presence of Uncertainties",

Electronic Journal of International Group on Reliability "Reliability & Risk Analysis: Theory &

Applications". Vol.2. No.2, 2009, pp 30-41.

143. D. Mercurio, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, V.N. Dang, “Identification of Dynamic Event Tree

Scenarios via Possibilistic Clustering: Application to a Steam Generator Tube Rupture Event”,

Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2009, pp. 1180-1191.

144. E. Zio, “Neural Networks Simulation of the Transport of Contaminants in Groundwater,

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol.2, No. 3 (October, 2009), pp. 268-

277.

145. F. Cadini, E. Zio, L.R. Golea, C.A. Petrescu, “Analysis and optimization of power

transmission grids by genetic algorithms”, Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications, Vol.2, No. 4,

December 2009.

146. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, M. Broggi, L. Golea, “Modelling the dynamics of the Lead Bismuth

Eutectic eXperimental Accelerator Driven System by an Infinite Impulse Response Locally

Recurrent Neural Network”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 41(10), pp. 1293-1306, 2009.

147. C. Rocco, J.E. Ramirez-Marquez, D. Salazar, E. Zio, “A Flow Importance Measure via

Multiple-Objective Optimization and its Application to an Italian Transmission Power System”,

International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1 January 2010, pp. 53-61.

148. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Robust nuclear signal reconstruction

by a novel ensemble model aggregation procedure", International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge

Management, Vol 4, No. 1, pp 34-41, 2010.

149. P. Baraldi, A. Cammi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "An ensemble approach to sensor fault detection and

signal reconstruction for nuclear system control" - Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol 37, No.6, pp.

778-790, 2010.

150. P. Baraldi, A. Cammi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "Local Fusion of an Ensemble of Models for the

Reconstruction of Faulty Signals" - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 57, issue 2, pp.793-

806, 2010.

151. P. Baraldi, I. C. Popescu, E. Zio, "Methods Of Uncertainty Analysis In Prognostics",

International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol 6, No. 4, pp.303-331, 2010.

152. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, "Evaluation of crew performance in simulated nuclear

emergency procedures by fuzzy expert system", International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge

Management, vol. 4, N1, pp 42-58, 2010.

153. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, “Comparison of bootstrapped Artificial Neural Networks

and quadratic Response Surfaces for the estimation of the functional failure probability of a

thermal-hydraulic passive system”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 95(4), pp. 386-395,

2010.




2010.

155. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, N. Pedroni, “Quantitative functional failure analysis of a thermal-

hydraulic passive system by means of bootstrapped Artificial Neural Networks”, Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 37(5), pp. 639-649, 2010.

156. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, "An optimized Line Sampling method for the estimation of the failure

probability of nuclear passive systems", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, doi:

10.1016/j.ress.2010.06.007.

157. E.Zio, R.Piccinelli, "Randomized flow model and centrality measure for electrical power

transmission network analysis", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 95 (2010) 379 – 385.

158. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “A Fuzzy Similarity-Based Method for Failure Detection and Recovery

Time Estimation”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 4, July 2010, pp.

305-322.



Safety, RESS, Volume 95(1), Pages 49-57, 10.1016/j.ress.2009.08.001, 2010.

160. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, J. Tong, “Safety Margins Confidence Estimation for a Passive Residual

Heat Removal System”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, RESS, Vol. 95, pp. 828–836,

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2010.03.006, 2010.

161. E. Zio, R. Bazzo, Multiobjective optimization of the inspection intervals of a nuclear safety

system: A clustering-based framework for reducing the Pareto Front, Annals of Nuclear Energy,

Vol. 37, Issue 6, pag. 798-812, 2010.

162. F. Cadini, D. Avram, E. Zio, “A Monte Carlo-based Technique for Estimating the Operation

Modes of Hybrid Dynamic Systmes”. Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory and Applications, No.

2(17), Vol. 1, June 2010.

163. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, E. Zio, T. Girotti, A. Luce and A. Taglioni, "Monte Carlo estimation

of radionuclide release at a repository scale", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 37, 6, 861-866, 2010.

164. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Optimization of the Test Intervals of a Nuclear Safety System by

Genetic Algorithms, Solution Clustering and Fuzzy Preference Assignment”, Nuclear Engineering

and Technology, Vol. 42, N. 4, Aug. 2010.

166. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “A Clustering Procedure for Reducing the Number of Representative

Solutions in the Pareto Front of Multiobjective Optimization Problems, European Journal of

Operations Research, 210, pp 624-634, 2010.

167. F. Cadini, D. Avram, E. Zio. A. Luce, A. Taglioni, “Preliaminary Evaluation of a Radioactive

Waste Repository Safety Performance by a Monte Carlo Simulation-Based Reliability Model”,

Kerntechnik, Vol. 75 (6), 2010, pp.316, 321.

168. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "A comparison between probabilistic and Dempster-Shafer Theory

approaches to Model Uncertainty Analysis in the Performance Assessment of Radioactive Waste

Repositories". Risk Analysis, Vol 30, No 7, pp 1139-1156, 2010.

169. L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, “Using Expert Models in Human

Reliability Analysis – A Dependence Assessment Method Based on Fuzzy Logic”, Risk Analysis,

Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 1277-1297, 2010.

170. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, T. Girotti, E. Zio, A. Luce, A. Taglioni, " Monte Carlo based

assessment of the safety performance of a radioactive waste repository", Reliability Engineering &

System Safety, Vol 95, Iss. 8 (2010).

171. F. Cadini, E. Zio, C.A. Petrescu (2010). Optimal expansion of an existing electrical power

transmission network by multi-objective genetic algorithms RELIABILITY ENGINEERING &

SYSTEM SAFETY, (pp. 173- 181), 95, 2010.

172. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, M. Stasi, “A data-driven approach for predicting failure scenarios in

nuclear systems”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 37, 482–491, 2010.

173. F. Cadini, Avram, D., Zio, E. “System State Estimation by Particle Filtering for Fault

Diagnosis and Prognosis”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal

of Risk and Reliability, 224 (3), pp. 149-158, 2010.

174. T. Aven and E. Zio, “Some Consideration on the Treatment of Uncertainties in Risk

Assessment for Practical Decision Making”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96,.

2011, pp. 64-74, 2011.

175. E. Zio and G. Peloni, “Particle filtering prognostic estimation of the remaining useful life of

nonlinear components”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 403-409, 2011.

176. P. Baraldi, R. Razavi-Far, E. Zio, "Classifier-Ensemble Incremental-Learning Procedure for

Nuclear Transient Identification at Different Operational Conditions", Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 480–488, 2011.

177. Piero Baraldi, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Enrico Zio, "Bagged Ensemble of FCM Classifiers for

Nuclear Transient Identification", Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 38 (5), pp 1161-1171, 2011.

178. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Signal reconstruction by a GA-

optimized ensemble of PCA models", Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 241, 2011, pp.301-309.

179. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Two novel procedures for aggregating

randomized model ensemble outcomes for robust signal reconstruction in nuclear power plants

monitoring systems", Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 38 (2-3), pp. 212-220, 2011.

180. P. Baraldi, G. Gola, E. Zio, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "A randomized model ensemble

approach for reconstructing signals from faulty sensors", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol.

38 (8), pp. 9211-9224

181. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, A. Despujols, E. Zio, "Modeling of the effect of maintenance actions

on the degradation of an electric power plant component". Maintenance modelling and

applications - Special Issue. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical E, Journal of Risk and

Reliability, Vol. 7, No 11, pp. 43-60, 2011.

182. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Identification of contradictory patterns in experimental

datasets for the development of models for electrical cables diagnostics". special issue: Data Mining

in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Risk Management of International Journal of

Performability Engineering, Vol. 7, No 11, pp. 43-60, 2011.

183. Zio, E., Amato, A., Compare, M., Gallisto, M., Maccari, A., Paganelli, M. Business

Interruption And Loss Of Assets Risk Assessment In Support Of The Design Of An Innovative

Concentrating Solar Power Plant. Renewable Energies, Volume 36, Issue 5, pp. 1558-1567, May

2011.

184. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, “How to effectively compute the reliability of a thermal-hydraulic passive

system”, accepted for publication on Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 241, Issue 1, pp.

310-327, Jan. 2011.

185. F. Di Maio, P. Secchi, S. Vantini, E. Zio, “Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Signal Functional

Principal Components for Post-Processing Dynamic Scenarios of a Nuclear Power Plant Digital

Instrumentation and Control System”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume 60, no. 2, pp. 415-

425, June 2011.

186. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, "Modeling Interdependent Network Systems for Identifying Cascade-

Safe Operating Margins", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 60(1), pp. 94-101, March 2011.

187. F. Cadini, E. Zio, L.R. Golea and C.A. Petrescu, “Application of Multi-Objective Genetic

Algorithms to Two Case Studies of Reliability Efficiency Analysis and Optimal Expansion of

electrical Transmission Networks”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical E, Journal of Risk

and Reliability, Vol. 225, pp. 365-374, 2011.

188 E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Level Diagrams Analysis of Pareto Fronts for Multiobjective System

Redundancy Allocation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 569-580, 2011.

189. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, Component Criticality in Failure Cascade Processes of Network

Systems, Risk Analysis, Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 1196-1210, August 2011, ISSN 0272-4332.

190. Baraldi P., Compare M., Despujols A., Zio E. 2011. ‘Modeling of the effect of maintenance

actions on the degradation of a water-feeding turbo-pump of a nuclear power plant. Journal of Risk

and Reliability, Vol. 225 (2), pp. 169-183.

191. P. Baraldi, R. Canesi, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, R. Chevalier, "Generic algorithm-based wrapper

approach for grouping condition monitoring signal of nuclear power plant components". Integrated

Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 18 (3), pp. 221-234, 2011.

192. E. Zio and T. Aven, “Uncertainties in Smart grids Behavior and Modeling: What Risks and

Vulnerabilities?”, Energy Policy, Vol. 39, 2011, pp. 6308-6320.

193. A. Cunningham, W. Wang, E. Zio, A. Wall, D. Allanson and J. Wang, “Application of delay-

time analysis via Monte Carlo simulation”, Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology,

Volume 10, Issue 3 September 2011, pp. 57-72.

194. E. Zio and G. Viadana, “Optimization of the Inspection Intervals of a Safety System in a

Nuclear Power Plant by Multi-Objective Differential Evolution”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, Vol 96, pp. 1552-1563, 2011.

195. I.D. Lins, M. das Chagas. Moura, E. Zio and E. Lopez Droguett, “Failure and Reliability

Prediction by Support Vector Machines Regression of Time Series Data”, Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 1527-1534, 2011.

196. Y. Li and E. Zio, “Uncertainty analysis of the adequacy assessment model of a distributed

generation system“, Renewable Energy, 2012, Vol. 41, pp. 235-244.

197. I.D. Lins, M. das Chagas. Moura, E. Zio and E. Lopez Droguett, “A Particle Swarm-Optimized

Support Vector Machine for Reliability Prediction”, International Journal of Quality and Reliability

Engineering, Vol. 28, pp. 141-158, 2012.

198. F. Di Maio, J. Hu, P. Tse, K. Tsui, E. Zio, M. Pecht, “Ensemble-approaches for clustering

health status of oil sand pumps”, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 39, pp. 4847–4859,

doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.10.008.

199. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, “Monte Carlo Simulation-based Sensitivity Analysis of the model of a

Thermal-Hydraulic Passive System”, accepted for publication on Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, Vol. 107, Nov. 2012, pp. 90-106, ISSN 0951-8320, published by Elsevier Ltd.

200. E. Zio and T. Aven, ”Industrial Disasters: Extreme Events, Extremely Rare. Some Reflections

on the Treatment of Uncertainties in the Assessment of the Associated Risks”, Process Safety and

Environmental Protection, Vol. 91, pp. 31-45, 2013.

201. E. Zio, R. Piccinelli, M. Delfanti, V. Olivieri, M. Pozzi, "Application of the Load Flow and the

Random Flow Models for the Analysis of Power Transmission Networks", Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, Vol 103, July 2012, pages 102 – 109.

202. F. Cadini, D. Avram, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, "Subset Simulation of a reliability model for

radioactive waste repository performance assessment", Reliability Engineering and System Safety,

Volume 100, Apr. 2012, pp. 75-83, ISSN 0951-8320, published by Elsevier Ltd.

203. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, G. Sansavini, "Optimizing protections against cascades in network

systems: A modified binary differential evolution algorithm", Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, Vol 103, July 2012, pages 72 – 83.

204. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, C. Rocco, "Identifying groups of critical edges in a realistic electrical

network by multi-objective genetic algorithms", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol 99,

March 2012, pages 172 – 177.

205. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, "Analyzing the topological, electrical and reliability characteristics of a

power transmission system for identifying its critical elements", Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, Vol 101, May 2012, pages 67 – 74.

206. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Fault Diagnosis and Failure Mode Estimation by a Data-Driven Fuzzy

Similarity Approach”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 8, No.1, January

2012, pp. 49-66.

207. F. Di Maio, K..L. Tsui, E. Zio, “Combining Relevance Vector Machines and Exponential

Regression for Bearing RUL estimation”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Mechanical

Systems and Signal Processing, 31, 405–427, 2012.

208. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, A. Cherubini, E. Zio, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini, “Nominal range

sensitivity analysis of peak radionuclide concentrations in randomly heterogeneous aquifer”,

ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 47, 166-172.

209. F. Cadini, D. Avram, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Subset Simulation of a reliability model for

radioactive waste repository performance assessment”, RELIABILITY ENGINEERING &

SYSTEM SAFETY, 100, 75-83, 2012.

210. F. Cadini, E. Zio, G. Peloni, “Particle Filtering for the Detection of Fault Onset Time in

Hybrid Dynamic Systems With Autonomous Transitions”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

RELIABILITY, 61, 130-139, 2012.

211. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, A. Cherubini, E. Zio, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini, “An integrated

simulation framework for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories”,

ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 39, 1-8, 2012.

212. P. Baraldi, A. Balestrero, M. Compare, L. Benetrix, A. Despujols, E. Zio "A Modeling

Framework for Maintenance Optimization of Electrical Components Based on Fuzzy Logic and

Effective Age", Quality and Reliability engineering Internantional. doi: 10.1002/qre.1388, 2012.

213. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Fatigue Crack Growth Estimation by Relevance Vector Machines”,

Expert Systems with Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.199, 2012.

214. Li Y.F., Zio E., “A Multi-State Power Model for Adequacy Assessment of Distributed

Generation via Universal Generating Function”. Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety.

Volume 106, pp 28–36, 2012

215. Ding Y., Zio E., Li Y.F., Cheng L., Wu Q. W., “Definition of Multi-state Weighted k-out-of-n:

F Systems”. International Journal of Performability Engineering. Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 217-

219, 2012.

216. E. Zio, M. Compare, “A snapshot on maintenance modeling and applications”. Marine

Technology and Engineering 2, pp. 1413-1425, 2012.

217. E. Zio, M. Compare, “Evaluating maintenance policies by quantitative modeling and

analysis”. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Volume 109, January 2013, Pages 53–65.

218. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Empirical comparison of methods for the hierarchical propagation of

hybrid uncertainty in risk assessment, in presence of dependences”, International Journal of

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.199

Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 20, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 509-557, ISSN

0218-4885, published by World Scientific Publishing.

219. R. Flage, T. Aven, P. Baraldi and E. Zio, "An imprecision importance measure for uncertainty

representations interpreted as lower and upper probabilities, with special emphasis on possibility

theory", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O, Journal of Risk and

Reliability, Vol. 226, Issue 6, pp. 656-665, 2012.

220. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "A Kalman Filter-based Ensemble Approach for Turbine Creep

Prognostics". IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol 61, Issue 4, pp. 966-977, 2012.

221. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, L. Pappaglione, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, “Condition Monitoring of Electrical

Power Plant Components During Operational Transients”, Proceedings of the Institution of

Mechanical Engineers, Part O, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 226, Issue 6, pp. 568-583, 2012.

222. R. Razavi-Far, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, “Dynamic Weighting Ensembles for Incremental Learning

and Diagnosing New Concept Class Faults in Nuclear Power Systems” IEEE Transactions On

Nuclear Science, Vol. 59 (5), pp. 2520-2530, 2012.

223. Li Y.F., Zio E. Uncertainty Analysis of the Adequacy Assessment Model of a Distributed

Generation System. Renewable Energy. Volume 41, pp. 235–244, 2012.

224. Li Y.F., Sansavini G., Zio E. Non-Dominated Sorting Binary Differential Evolution for the

Multi-Objective Optimization of Cascading Failures Protection in Complex Networks. Reliability

Engineering & System Safety. 111, pp. 195-205, 2013.

225. Zio E., Ferrario E. A framework for the system-of-systems analysis of the risk for a safety-

critical plant exposed to external events. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2013. V. 114,

pp. 114-125.

226. Fang Y.-P., Zio E. Unsupervised spectral clustering for hierarchical modelling and criticality

analysis of complex networks. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Volume 116, 2013, pp. 64-

74.

227. Fang, Y.-P., Zio, E. Hierarchical Modeling by Recursive Unsupervised Spectral Clustering and

Network Extended Importance Measures to Analyze the Reliability Characteristics of Complex

Network Systems. American Journal of Operations Research, 3, pp. 101-112, 2013.

228. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Uncertainty analysis in fault tree models with dependent basic events”,

Risk Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 6, pages 1146–1173, June 2013, ISSN 0272-4332, published by

Wiley-Blackwell.

229. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2013): Predicting time series of railway speed restrictions with

time-dependent machine learning techniques, Expert Systems with Applications, 40 (15), 6033–

6040.

230. Fink, O., E. Zio (2013) Semi-Markov processes with semi-regenerative states for the

availability analysis of chemical process plants with storage units, Proceedings of the Institution of

Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 227( 3), 279-289.

231. Zhao Wei, Tao Tao, Ding ZhuoShu, Enrico Zio, A dynamic particle filter-support vector

regression method for reliability prediction, Reliability Engineering and System Safety 119 (2013)

109–116.

232. Rocco C.M., Zio E.: “Global sensitivity analysis in a Multi-state Physics Model of Component

Degradation based on a hybrid State-Space Enrichment and Polynomial Chaos Expansion

approach”, acepted IEEE Transaction on Reliability.

233. Aven T., Zio E., Model output uncertainty in risk assessment, International Journal of

Performability Engineering Vol. 9, No. 5, September 2013, p.475-486.

234. F. Di Maio, E. Zio, “Failure Prognostics by a Data-Driven Similarity Based Approach”,

International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol 20 (2), No.1, pp.1-17, 2013

235. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, “Unsupervised Clustering for Fault Diagnosis in Nuclear Power

Plant Components”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 6, No. 4,

July 2013, pp. 764-777.



Effective Age", Quality and Reliability engineering Internantional, 29, 385–405, 2013.

237. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, ""Uncertainty analysis in degradation modeling for

maintenance policy assessment"", Proc IMechE Part O: J Risk and Reliability, Volume 227 Issue, 3

June 2013, pp. 55.

238. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, “Component ranking by birnbaum importance in presence of

epistemic uncertainty in failure event probabilities”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 62 (1),

pp. 37-48, 2013.

239. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Maintenance policy performance assessment in presence of

imprecision based on Dempster–Shafer Theory of Evidence", Information Sciences, Volume 245, 1

October 2013, Pages 112-131,

240. P. Baraldi, F. Cadini, F. Mangili, E. Zio, Model-based and data-driven prognostics under

different available information, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Volume 32, April 2013, Pages

66-79.

241. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "Investigation of uncertainty treatment capability of model-

based and data-driven prognostic methods using simulated data", 2013, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 112, pp. 94-108.

242. R. Flage, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, T. Aven, "Probability and Possibility-Based Representations of

Uncertainty in Fault Tree Analysis", Risk Analysis, Vol. 33 (1), pp. 121-133.

243. Cadini, F., De Sanctis, J., Bertoli, I., Zio, E.,"Monte Carlo simulation of radionuclide migration

in fractured rock for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories", 2013,

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 111, pp. 241-247.

244. Cadini, F., De Sanctis, J., Bertoli, I., Zio, E.,"Upscaling of a dual-permeability Monte Carlo

simulation model for contaminant transport in fractured networks by genetic algorithm parameter

identification", 2013, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 27, 2, pp. 505-516.

245. Ciriello, V., Di Federico, V., Riva, M., Cadini, F., De Sanctis, J., Zio, E., Guadagnini,

A.,"Polynomial chaos expansion for global sensitivity analysis applied to a model of radionuclide

migration in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer", 2013, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk

Assessment,27, 4, pp. 945-954.

246. Fang, C., Marle, F. and Zio, E., “An Integrated Framework for Risk Response Planning Under

Resource Constraints in Large Engineering Projects”, IEEE Trans. On Engineering Management,

Vol. 60, No. 3, 2013, pp. 627-639.

247. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, S. Sauco, E. Zio "Ensemble Neural Network-Based Particle Filtering

for Prognostics", Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 41 (1-2) , 2013, pp. 288-300.

248. G. Ripamonti, G. Lonati, P. Baraldi, F. Cadini, E. Zio, “Uncertainty propagation in a model for

the estimation of the ground level concentration of dioxin/furans emitted from a waste gasification

plant”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 120, pp. 98-105, 2013.

249. Jonas Johansson, Henrik Hassel, Enrico Zio, “Reliability and vulnerability analyses of critical

infrastructures: Comparing two approaches in the context of power systems., Rel. Eng. & Sys.

Safety, 2013, Volume 120, December 2013, Pages 27–38.

250. M. Compare, E. Zio, “Evaluating maintenance policies by quantitative modeling and analysis”.

Reliability engineering and system safety, Volume 109, Pages 53-65, January 2013.

251. Zio, E. and Sansavini, G., “Vulnerability of Smart Grids with Variable Generation and

Consumption: a System of Systems Perspective”, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and

Cybernetics: Systems, Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 477 – 487, 2013.

252. Z. Yang, X.X. Chen, Y.F. Li, E. Zio, R. Kang, "Smart Electricity Meter Reliability Prediction

based on Accelerated Degradation Testing and Modeling", In International Journal of Electrical

Power and Energy Systems: 1-30, 2013.

253. J. Liu, R. Seraoui, V. Vitelli, E. Zio, "Nuclear power plant components condition monitoring

by probabilistic support vector machine." In Annals of Nuclear Energy, 56: 23-33, 2013.

254. E. Kuznetsova, Y.F. Li, C. Ruiz, E. Zio, K. Bell, G. Ault, "Reinforcement learning for

microgrid energy management." In Energy, 59: 133-146, 2013.

255. Y.F. Li, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, "A Memetic Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Method

for Environmental Power Unit Commitment." In IEEE Transactions on Power Systems: 1-10, 2013.

256. R. Ak, Y.F. Li, V. Vitelli, E. Zio, "NSGA-II-trained neural network approach to the estimation

of prediction intervals of scale deposition rate in oil & gas equipment." In Expert Systems with

Applications, 40(4) : 1205-1212, 2013.

257. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, E. Ferrario, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, "Hierarchical propagation of

probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty in the parameters of a risk model." In Computers &

Structures, Online : 1-15, 2013.

258. Zhao Wei, Tao Tao, Enrico Zio. 2013. Parameters Tuning in Support Vector Regression for

Reliability Forecasting. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 33, 523-528.

259. Zohre Alipour, Mohammad Ali Saniee Monfared and Enrico Zio, Comparing topological and

reliability-based vulnerability analysis of Iran power transmission network, Proceedings of the

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability published online 24

September 2013, DOI: 10.1177/1748006X13501652.

259. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann: Quantifying the reliability of fault classifiers, accepted for

publication in Journal of Information Sciences, 266, 65-74, 2014.

260. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2014): Predicting component reliability and level of

degradation with complex-valued neural networks, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 121,

198–206, 2014.

261. Razavi-Far, R., Zio, E., Palade, V. 'Efficient residuals pre-processing for diagnosing multi-

class faults in a doubly fed induction generator, under missing data scenarios', Expert Systems with

Applications 41 (2014) 6386–6399.

262. Sheng Hong, Zheng Zhou, Enrico Zio, Kan Hong, Condition assessment for the performance

degradation of bearing based on a combinatorial feature extraction method, Digital Signal

Processing 27 (2014), 159–166.

263. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, F. Mangili, G. Gola, B.H. Nystad, "Ensemble of kernel regression models

for assessing the health state of choke valves in offshore oil platforms", International Journal of

Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 7(2), pp. 225-241.

264. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Uncertainty treatment in expert information systems for

maintenance policy assessment", Applied Soft Computing Journal, 22, pp. 297-310, 2014



266. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, G. Gola, B. H. Nystad, E. Zio “A Hybrid Ensemble-Based Approach for

Process Parameter Estimation and Degradation Assessment in Offshore Oil Platforms”, Vol. 10(5),

pp. 497-509, 2014

267. F. Di Maio, G. Nicola, E. Zio, Y.Yu, “Ensemble-based sensitivity analysis of a best estimate

thermal hydraulic model: application to a Passive Containment Cooling System of an AP1000

Nuclear Power Plant”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 73, 200–210, 2014.

268. S. Al-Dahidi, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A novel fault detection system taking into account

uncertainties in the reconstructed signals”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 73, Pages 131–144,

2014.

269. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “Hierarchical Differential Evolution for Minimal Cut Sets

Identification: Application to Nuclear Safety Systems”, European Journal of Operational Research,

Volume 238, Issue 2, Pages 645–652, 2014.

270. M. Compare, E. Zio, “Predictive Maintenance by Risk Sensitive Particle Filtering”, IEEE

reliability transactions, Vol. 63 (1), pp. 134-143, 2014.

271. Sansavini G., Piccinelli R., Golea L. R. and Zio E., A stochastic framework for uncertainty

analysis in electric power transmission systems with wind generation, Renewable Energy, Volume

64, April 2014, Pages 71–81.

272. F. Cadini, F. Santos, E. Zio (2014). Passive systems failure probability estimation by the meta-

AK-IS2 algorithm. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 277, 203-211.

273. F. Cadini, F. Santos, E. Zio (2014). An improved adaptive kriging-based importance technique

for sampling multiple failure regions of low probability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety,

131, 109-117.

274. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "A prognostics approach to nuclear component degradation

modeling based on Gaussian Process Regression", Progress in Nuclear Energy, 78, pp. 141-154,

2015

275. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, D. Genini, E. Zio, “Reconstruction of missing data in multidimensional

time series by fuzzy similarity”, Applied Soft Computing Journal, 26, pp. 1-9, 2015.

276. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, and E. Zio, “A particle filtering and kernel smoothing-based

approach for new design component prognostics” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol.

134, pp. 19–31, Oct. 2014.

277. R. Flage, T. Aven, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, "Concerns, Challenges, and Directions of Development

for the Issue of Representing Uncertainty in Risk Assessment", Risk Analysis, Vol. 34(7), pp. 1196-

1207, 2014.

278. Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Vasile Palade, Enrico Zio, “Invasive weed classification”. Published

online on 30 July 2014 in Neural Computing and Applications.

279. Sheng Hong, Zheng Zhou, Enrico Zio, Wenbin Wang, “An adaptive method for health trend

prediction of rotating bearings”, Digital Signal Processing, Volume 35, December 2014, Pages 117–

123.

280. Ferrario E., Zio E. Assessing nuclear power plant safety and recovery from earthquakes using a

system-of-systems approach. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2014, 125, pp.103-116.

281. Ferrario E., Zio E. Goal Tree Success Tree–Dynamic Master Logic Diagram and Monte Carlo

simulation for the safety and resilience assessment of a multistate system of systems. Engineering

Structures. February 2014. V. 59, pp. 411-433.

282. Z. Yang, Y.X. Chen, Y.F. Li, E. Zio, R. Kang. 2014. Smart Electricity Meter Reliability

Prediction based on Accelerated Degradation Testing and Modeling. International Journal of

Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 56, 209-219.

283. Y.F. Li, Y. Ding, E. Zio. Random Fuzzy Extension of the Universal Generating Function

Approach for the Reliability Assessment of Multi-State Systems under Aleatory and Epistemic

Uncertainties. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 63(1), 13 - 25.

284. Kuznetsova, E., Li, Y. F., Ruiz, C., & Zio, E. An integrated framework of agent-based

modelling and robust optimization for microgrid energy management. Applied Energy. 129, 70 - 88

285. Mena, R., Hennebel, M., Li, Y. F., Ruiz, C., & Zio, E. (2014). A risk-based simulation and

multi-objective optimization framework for the integration of distributed renewable generation and

storage. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 778-793.

286. I. Prodan, E. Zio : A model predictive control framework for reliable microgrid energy

management. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 61, pp. 399 - 409,

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2014.03.017, October 2014.

287. Kuznetsova, E., Ruiz, C., Li, Y.-F., & Zio, E. Analysis of robust optimization for decentralized

microgrid energy management under uncertainty. International Journal of Electrical Power and

Energy Systems, Vol. 64, pp. 815–832.

288. C.K. Lo, N. Pedroni, E. Zio : Treating Uncertainties in a Nuclear Seismic Probabilistic Risk

Assessment by Means of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence, Vol. 46, pp 11-26, 2014.

289. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, Y. Li and E. Zio. Self-adaptable Hierarchical Clustering Analysis and

Differential Evolution for Optimal Integration of Renewable Distributed Generation. Applied

Energy, vol. 133, pp. 388-402, 2014.

290. Chaoran Liu, Daqing Li, Enrico Zio, Rui Kang, A Modeling Framework for System

Restoration from Cascading Failures, PLOS ONE, pages 1-17, |DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0112363

December 4, 2014.

291. T. Aven and E. Zio, Foundational Issues in Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Risk

Analysis, Vol. 34(7), pp. 1164-1172, 2014.

292. Sheng Hong, Hongqi Yang, Enrico Zio, Ning Huang. A novel dynamics model of fault

propagation and equilibrium analysis in complex dynamical communication network Applied

Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, 2014, 247, pp.1021-1029

293. E. Zio, Integrated deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment: Concepts, challenges,

research directions, Nuclear Engineering and Design 280 (2014) 413–419.

294. Tairan Wang, Vincent Mousseau, Nicola Pedroni, Enrico Zio. Assessing the Performance of a

Classification-Based Vulnerability Analysis Model, Risk Analysis, Wiley-Blackwell: No

OnlineOpen, 2014, pp.16.

295. Torbjørn Bjerga, Terje Aven, Enrico Zio. An illustration of the use of an approach for treating

model uncertainties in risk assessment Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, 2014,

125, pp.46 – 53.

296. Yi-Ping Fang, Nicola Pedroni, Enrico Zio. Comparing Network-Centric and Power Flow

Models for the Optimal Allocation of Link Capacities in a Cascade-Resilient Power Transmission

Network IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE, 2014, PP (99), pp.1 - 12.

297. Yan-Hui Lin, Yan-Fu Li, Enrico Zio. Fuzzy Reliability Assessment of Systems with Multiple

Dependent Competing Degradation Processes IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Institute of

Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, PP (99), 11 p.

298. Yan-Hui Lin, Yan-Fu Li, Enrico Zio. Integrating Random Shocks Into Multi-State Physics

Models of Degradation Processes for Component Reliability Assessment IEEE Transactions on

Reliability, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, pp.28.

299. E. Zio, M. Delfanti, L. Giorgi, V. Olivieri, G. Sansavini, "Monte Carlo Simulation-Based

Probabilistic Assessment of DG Penetration in Medium Voltage Distribution Networks",

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Volume 64, January 2015, Pages

852–860.

300. Kwangpil Chang, Sungteak Kim, Daejun Chang, Junkeon Ahn, Enrico Zio, Uncertainty

analysis for target SIL determination in the offshore industry, Journal of Loss Prevention in the

Process Industries, Volume 34, March 2015, Pages 151–162.

301. Olga Fink, Enrico Zio, Ulrich Weidmann, Development and Application of Deep Belief

Networks for Predicting Railway Operation Disruptions, International Journal of Performability

Engineering, Volume 11, N. 2, March 2015, pp. 121-134.

302. Y.-H. Lin, Y.-F. Li, E. Zio. Integrating Random Shocks Into Multi-State Physics Models of

Degradation Processes for Component Reliability Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

64(1): 154-166 (2015).

303. R. Rocchetta, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. Risk Assessment and Risk-Cost Optimization of Distributed

Power Generation Systems Considering Extreme Weather Conditions. Reliability Engineering &

System Safety 136 (2015): 47-61.

304. E. Kuznetsova, C.Ruiz, Y-F.Li, E. Zio. Analysis of robust optimization for decentralized


Energy Systems. 64 (2015), 815 – 832.

305. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, M. Rigamonti, R. Seraoui, “Unsupervised clustering of

vibration signals for identifying anomalous conditions in a nuclear turbine”, Journal of Intelligent

and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), 28(4), pp. 1723–1731, 2015. DOI:10.3233/IFS-141459.

306. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, M. Rigamonti, R. Seraoui, “Clustering for unsupervised fault

diagnosis in nuclear turbine shut-down transients”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing,

Volume 58, pp. 160–178, 2015.

307. P. Baraldi, L. Podofillini, L. Mkrtchyan, E. Zio, V.N. Dang, “Comparing the treatment of

uncertainty in Bayesian networks and fuzzy expert systems used for a human reliability analysis

application”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 138, pp. 176-193, 2015.

308. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “A Computational framework for Prime Implicants

Identification in non-coherent Dynamic Systems”, Risk Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 1, 142–156, 2015.


time series by fuzzy similarity”, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 26, 1–9, 2015.

310. F. Di Maio, D. Colli, E. Zio, L. Tao, J. Tong, “A Multi-State Physics Modeling Approach for

the Reliability Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants Piping Systems”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 80,

151–165, 2015.

311. P. Baraldi, P. Turati, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, “Robust signal reconstruction for condition

monitoring of industrial components via a modified Auto Associative Kernel Regression method”,

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 60, pp. 29–44, 2015.

312. F. Di Maio, G. Nicola, E. Zio, Y.Yu, “Finite Mixture Models for sensitivity analysis of

Thermal Hydraulic Codes for Passive Safety Systems safety Analysis”, Nuclear Engineering and

Design, 289, pp. 144–15.

313. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “A Visual Interactive Method for Prime Implicants

Identification”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 64, Issue 2, 539-549, 2015.

314. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, "A Novel Ensemble Clustering for

Operational Transients Classification with Application to a Nuclear Power Plant Turbine",

International Journal of Prognostics & Health Management, vol. 6 (001), pp. 1-21.

315. M. Compare, P. Baraldi, P. Turati, E. Zio. Particle Filtering for Fault Detection in Multi Model

Systems. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 40, pp.12-24, 2015.

316. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, “A belief function theory based approach to combining different

representation of uncertainty in prognostics”, Information Sciences, 303, pp. 134-149, 2015.

317. M. Compare, E. Zio, “Genetic algorithms in the framework of Dempster-Shafer Theory of

Evidence for maintenance optimization problems”, IEEE reliability transactions, 64 (2), pp. 645-

660.

318. M. Compare, F. Martini, E. Zio. Genetic Algorithms for Condition Based Maintenance

Optimization with uncertain fitnesses, European Journal of Operation Research, 244 (2), pp. 611-

623.

319. Y.F. Li, S. Valla, E. Zio 2015 Reliability Assessment of Generic Geared Wind Turbines by

GTST-MLD Model and Monte Carlo Simulation Renewable Energy, 83, 222-233.

320. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, 2015, Hybrid Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of the Model of a Twin-

Jet Aircraft, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (Special Issue on NASA Langley

Multidisciplinary Uncertainty Quantification Challenge), 12, 73-96.

321. Y.-P. Fang, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, 2015, Optimization of Cascade-Resilient Electrical

Infrastructures and its Validation by Power Flow Modelling, Risk Analysis, an International

Journal, 35, 4, 594–607.

322. E. Ferrario, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, 2015, Analysis of the robustness and recovery of critical

infrastructures by Goal Tree Success Tree – Dynamic Master Logic Diagram, within a multi-state

system-of-systems framework, in the presence of epistemic uncertainty, ASCE-ASME Journal of

Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering .

323. I. Prodan, E. Zio and F. Stoican, 2015, Fault tolerant predictive control design for reliable

microgrid energy management under uncertainties , Energy, 91, 20-34.

324. R. Ak, V. Vitelli and E. Zio, 2015, An Interval-Valued Neural Network Approach

for Uncertainty Quantification in Short-Term Wind Speed Prediction, IEEE Transactions On Neural

Networks And Learning Systems, Vol. 26, No. 11, November 2015, 2787 – 2800.

325. Li, D., Zhang, Q., Zio, E., Havlin, S., Kang, R., Network reliability analysis based on

percolation theory, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Volume 142, October 2015, Pages

556–562.

326. Lins, I. D., Droguett, E. L., das Chagas Moura, M., Zio, E., & Jacinto, C. M. (2015).

Computing confidence and prediction intervals of industrial equipment degradation by bootstrapped

support vector regression. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 137, 120-128.

327. Zhao, Wei, Tao Tao, and Enrico Zio. "System reliability prediction by support vector

regression with analytic selection and genetic algorithm parameters selection." Applied Soft

Computing 30 (2015): 792-802.

328. Yu, Y., Ma, G., Hao, Z., Wang, S., Niu, F., & Zio, E. (2015). Correlation analysis for screening

key parameters for passive system reliability analysis. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 77, 23-29.

329. Cadini, Francesco, A. Gioletta, and Enrico Zio. "Improved metamodel-based importance

sampling for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories." Reliability Engineering

& System Safety 134 (2015): 188-197.

330. Wang, T. R., Mousseau, V., Pedroni, N., & Zio, E. (2015). Assessing the Performance of a

Classification‐Based Vulnerability Analysis Model. Risk Analysis, 35(9), 1674-1689.

331. Luo, P., Sansavini, G., & Zio, E. (2015). Reliability analysis of smart grid communication

network by simulation. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 22(2), 119-133.





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D. Contributions in International books (24)

1. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Approaching Dynamic Reliability by Monte Carlo Simulation",

Reliability and Safety Assessment of Dynamic Process Systems, NATO ASI Series F, vol. 120,

Berlin, Germany, 1993.

2. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “A Stochastic Model for Underground Transport of Radionuclides”,

In “The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics: Nuclear Reaction Data and

Nuclear Reactors: Physics, Design and Safety”, P. Oblozinsky and A. Gandini Eds., World

Scientific Publisher, 1999, pp. 512-535.

3. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Genetic Algorithms: Theory and Applications in the Safety

Domain”, In “The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics: Nuclear Reaction

Data and Nuclear Reactors”, N. Paver, M. Herman and A. Gandini Eds., World Scientific Publisher,

2001, pp. 655-695.

4. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and L. Podofillini, Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for

the Optimization of System Design and Operation, in “Computational Intelligence in Reliability

Engineering”, Gregory Levitin Ed., Springer, 2007, pp. 101-147.

5. E. Zio, Evaluation of the Reliability Performance of Network systems by Cellular Automata and

Monte Carlo Simulation, in “Computational Models of Risks to Infrastructure”, D. Skanata and

D.M. Byrd Eds., NATO SPS, Vol. 13, IOS Press, 2007, pp. 111-120.

6. E. Zio, G. Sansavini, Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Networks: Making Monte Carlo

Simulation Feasible Through Biasing, in “Computational Models of Risks to Infrastructure”, D.

Skanata and D.M. Byrd Eds., NATO SPS, Vol. 13, IOS Press, 2007, pp. 121-130.

7. E. Zio and P. Baraldi, The Fusion of Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Classification for Transient

Identification, in “Fuzzy Logic: A Spectrum of Theoretical and Practical Issues”, P. P. Wang, D.

Ruan and E. E. Kerre Eds., Springer, 2007, pp. 317-336.

8. Marzio Marseguerra and E. Zio, Simulation of Life Distributions, in “Encyclopedia of Statistics in

Quality and Reliability”, Ruggeri, F., Kenett, R. and Faltin, F. W. (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd,

Chichester, UK, 2007, pp. 959-963.

9. C. Rocco, E. Zio, Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation for Network Reliability and

Availability Assessment, in “Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering New

Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability Series: Studies in Computational

Intelligence”, Vol. 40, Ch. 5, pp 113-144, Levitin, Gregory (Ed.), 2007, Springer Verlag,

10. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and I.C. Popescu, Fuzzy Decision Trees as Intelligent Decision Support

Systems for Fault Diagnosis, in “Intelligent Decision and Policy Making Support Systems”, D.

Ruan, F. Hardeman and K. van der Meer Eds., Springer, 2008, pp. 187-210.

11. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, G. Gola and N. Pedroni, “Single and Ensemble Fault Classiffers Based on

Features Selected by Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms”, in “Advances in Mathematical and

Statistical Modeling” published in the series “Statistics for Industry and Technology (SIT)”,

Birkhäuser, Boston, Inc. ISBN: 978-0-8176-4625-7.

12. F. Cadini, E. Zio and C. Petrescu, “Chapter 14 - Using centrality measures to rank the

importance of the components of a complex network infrastructure”, Critical Information

Infrastructure Security - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN

0302-9743, 5508, 2009, pp. 155-167.

13. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, "Reliability Estimation by Advanced Monte Carlo Simulation", In:

Faulin, Juan, Martorell, Ramirez-Marquez, "Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of

Complex Systems" (Springer Eds.), pp. 3-39, 2010.

14. E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Methods for Reliability Estimation and Failure Prognostics”, Complex

Data Modeling, Springer, pp. 138-151, 2010.

15. E. Zio, “Availability Analysis: Concepts and Methods”, Encyclopedia of Operations Research

and Management Science, Wiley, 2011,

16. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Muti-Objective reliability Allocation in Multi-State Systems: Decision

Making by Visualization and Anaysis of Pareto Front and Sets”, in Recent Advances in System

Reliability: signatures, Multi-State Systems and Statistical Inference, A. Lisnianski and I. Frenkel

Eds., Springer, pp. 195- 208, ISBN: 9781447122067, 2011.

17. P. Baraldi , I.C. Popescu, E. Zio, "Methods for uncertainty analysis in the reliability assessment

of a degrading structure", in SRA into SRA: Structural Reliability Analyses into System Risk

Assessment, E. Ardillon ed., DNV publishing, pp. 81-106, 2011.

18. E. Zio, ”Stochastic Simulation of Critical Infrastructures for Electric Power Transmission”, in

Energy Security, A. Gheorghe and L. Muresan Eds., Springer, pp. 109-124, 2011.

19. Baraldi P., Compare M., Rossetti G., Despujols A., Zio E. 2011. ‘A modelling framework to

assess maintenance policy performance in electrical production plants’. Maintenance Modelling and

Applications, ESREDA-ESRA Project Group Report. Andrews, Berenguer and Jackson Eds., pp

263-282.

20. E. Zio, “Risk Importance Measures”, Safety and Risk Modeling and its Applications, Springer,

2011.

21. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “A Comparison of Methods For Selecting Preferred Solutions in

Multiobjective Decision Making”, in Computatıonal ıntellıgence applıcatıons ın ındustrıal

engıneerıng, Cengiz Kahraman and Başar Öztayşi Eds., Atlantis-Springer, pp. 23-43, 2012.

22. Li Y.F., Zio E., Lin Y.H. Methods of Solutions of Inhomogeneous Continuous Time Markov

Chains for Degradation Process Modeling, Applied Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis.

Probabilistic Models and Statistical Inference. Eds. Alex Karagrigoriou, Anatoly Lisnianski, Andre

Kleyner, Ilia Frenkel. Publisher Wiley, 2013.

23. E. Zio, Prognostics and Health Management of Industrial Equipment, in Diagnostics and

Prognostics of Engineering Systems: Methods and Techniques, Ed. Seifedine Kadry, IGI-Global.

24. E. Zio, Simulation of Life Distributions, in “Wiley Statistics Reference Online”. John Wiley &

Sons Ltd, pp. 1-8, 2015.

E. Proceedings of conferences with international scientific committee (335)

1. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Dynamic PSA by Monte Carlo Event Simulation Analysis" ,

Proceedings of PSA '93 published by ANS, Clearwater Beach, Florida, pp. 615 -- 624, 1993.

2. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: " Toward Dynamic PSA via Monte Carlo Methods" , Proceedings of

ESREL '93 published by Elsevier Science, Munich, Germany, pp. 415 -- 427, 1993.

3. E. Zio, C. Lombardi, M. Marseguerra, M. Ricotti: " Search for Correlations by Artificial Neural

Network Approach: two-phase thermal hydraulic study case", presentato in occasione de "30-th

meeting of the European Two-Phase Flow Group", Hannover, 7-10 giugno 1993.

4. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Improving the Efficiency of Monte Carlo Methods in PSA by Using

Neural Networks", Proceedings of PSAM II Conference in San Diego, March 1994.

5. C. Lombardi, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Thermalhydraulic Correlations by Neural network",

Proceedings of the Tenth International Heat Transfer Conference, Brighton, pp. 391 - 397, August

1994.

6. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis, D. Okrent, “Towards the Quantitative Treatment of Model Uncertainty in

the Performance Assessment of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories, Proceedings of WM’95

Conference, Arizona, USA, February 1995.

7. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis, D. Okrent, “ On the Use of Expert Opinion in the Assessment of Model

Uncertainty in Groundwater Flow”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on

Radioactive Waste Manangement and Environmental Remediation, Berlin, Germany, September

1995, pp. 739-742

8. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis, "A Norm-Based Approach to the Quantification of Model Uncertainty",

Proceedings of the Seventh International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference,

Las Vegas, April 1996, pp. 252-254.

9. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis: "Two Approaches to Model Uncertainty Quantification: A Case Study",

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management, PSAM III, Crete, Greece, June 1996, pp. 631-636.

10. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis: "The Assessment of Experts'Weights via the Analytic Hierarchy Process:

An Application", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management, PSAM III, Crete, Greece, June 1996, pp. 864-869.

11. E. Zio: "Quantitative Analysis of Model Uncertainty: Estimating the Credibility of Alternate

Model Structures", Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment, PSA'96, Park City, Utah, USA, September 1996, pp. 1219-1226.

12. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani and E. Zio, "Modeling the Operating Environment Effects on

Physically-Connected Redundant Components", in Advances in Safety & Reliability, Proceedings

of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon,

Portugal, pp. 2029-2038.

13. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Parameter Estimates for Monte Carlo Simulation of Contaminant

Transport in Groundwater ", in Advances in Safety & Reliability, Proceedings of the ESREL'97

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2115-

2122.

14. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Modeling Stochastically Dependent Failures", in Advances in

Safety & Reliability, Proceedings of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2173-2180.

15. M. E. Ricotti and E. Zio, "Sensitvity of Passive System Behaviour", in Advances in Safety &

Reliability, Proceedings of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 17-20

June, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2311-2320.

16. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Non-equilibrium in Groundwater Transport of Contaminants",

Proceedings of IMORN27, Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise, 18-20 November, 1997, Valencia,

Spain, pp. 43 – 52, 1999.

17. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Transport of Contaminants in a Bidimensional Stochastic

Medium", Proceedings of IMORN27, Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise, 18-20 November, 1997,

Valencia, Spain, pp. 53 – 62, 1999.

18. R. Accorsi, M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani and E. Zio, "Neural Control of Non-modelled Plants:

Application to a PWR ", Proceedings of IMORN27, Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise, 18-20

November, 1997, Valencia, Spain, pp. 275 – 286, 1999.

19. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, "Application of Sensitivity Analysis to Environmental Management",

Proceedings of SAMO98, Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model

Output, April, 19-22, 1998, Venice, Italy, pp. 333 - 336.

20. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Time-Delayed Propagating Failures: A Stochastic Model",

Proceedings of the ESREL'98 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998,

Trondheim, Norway, pp. 625-632.

21. S. Pasquet, E. Chatelet, E. Padovani and E. Zio, "Use of Neural Networks To Evaluate The

RAMS' Parameters of Dynamic Systems", Proceedings of the ESREL'98 International Conference

on Safety and Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 723-728.

22. M. Marseguerra, E Padovani, E. Zio, S. Tarantola and A. Saltelli, "Sensitivity analysis of a

Nonlinear Reliability Model", Proceedings of the ESREL'98 International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 1395-1401.

23. E. Zio, "Procedure Guidelines For Monte Carlo Simulation: An Uncertain Fate", Invited

presentation at the ESREL'98 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998,

Trondheim, Norway.

24. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Detectability of A Gamma Source Within Different Iron Scrap Loads:

Theoretical Evaluation", Invited paper at the International Conference on "The Radioactivity in the

Metal Scraps Recycling Industry: Consequences and Solutions", June 1998, Brescia, Italy.

25. M. Marseguerra, E Padovani, E. Zio, "Differential and Variance-Based Sensitivity analysis of

the Reliability of a Protection System", Proceedings of the PSAM 4 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, 13-18 September, 1998, New York City, USA,

pp. 2635-2640.

26. P. Wang, T. Aldemir and E. Zio, “An Online Tool For Risk-Based Accident Management”,

Proceedings of ESREL'99 European Safety and Reliability Conference 13-17 September, 1999,

TUM Munich-Garching, Germany, pp. 439-444.

27. E. Borgonovo, M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Safety Analysis with Aging,

Maintenance and Technological Obsolescence”, Proceedings of ESREL'99 European Safety and

Reliability Conference 13-17 September, 1999, TUM Munich-Garching, Germany, pp. 907-911.

28. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Reliability Assessment of Dynamic Control-Protection Systems: A

Framework for Monte Carlo Simulation with Biasing”, Invited paper at M&C’99, Mathematics and

Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in Nuclear Applications, Madrid, Spain,

1999, Proceedings Eds.J.M. Aragones, C. Ahnert and O. Cabellos, pp. 1339-1348.

29. M. Gadioli, M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Fast Integration by Neural Nets in DSD: Probabilistic

State Estimation”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting & Embedded

Topical Meetings, November 14-18, 1999, Long Beach, CA, pp. 151 – 154.

30. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “System Design Optimization by Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings

of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2000, January 24-27, Los

Angeles, CA, pp. 222 – 227.

31. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Evaluation of Corrective and Preventive

Maintenance Strategies”, Proceedings of ESREL 2000 (European Safety and Reliability), SaRS

(Safety and Reliability Society) and SRA-Europe (Society of Risk Analysis) annual conference, May

14-17, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 269-274.

32. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Finding Optimal Repair And Maintenance Strategies By A

Combined Genetic Algorithm Monte Carlo Approach”, Proceedings of ESREL 2000 (European

Safety and Reliability), SaRS (Safety and Reliability Society) and SRA-Europe (Society of Risk

Analysis) annual conference, May 14-17, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 261-267.

33. F. Cadini, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Unavailability of Systems with Time–Dependent Failure

Rates and Stress-Dependent Aging”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Monte Carlo

Simulation, MCS 2000, June 18 –21, 2000, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco, pp. 327-334.

34. P. E. Labeau, E. Zio, “The Mathematics of Component-based and System-based Monte Carlo

Sampling in Realistic System Engineering”, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR’ 2000, July 4 – 7, 2000, Bordeaux, France, pp. 667 –

670.

35. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Use of genetic algorithms for on line reactivity

forecasting”, Proceedings of IMORN28, International Meeting on Reactor Noise, 11-13 October,

2000, Athens, Greece, pp. 129-135.

36. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Determination of parameters in groundwater

contaminant transport models by means of genetic algorithms”, Proceedings of IMORN28,

International Meeting on Reactor Noise, 11-13 October, 2000, Athens, Greece, pp. 137-145.

37. M. Marseguerra, R.Masini, E.Zio, “Recurrent neural networks for dynamic system prediction”,

Proceedings of IMORN28, International Meeting on Reactor Noise, 11-13 October, 2000, Athens,

Greece, pp. 147-156.

38. E. Chatelet, E. Zio, S. Pasquet, “The Use of Neural Networks in the Reliability Analysis of

Dynamic Systems: An Overview”, Proceedings of Workshop on Fifth International Workshop on

Dynamic Reliability: Future Directions, September 1998, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A., pp.123–

143.

39. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "A Comparison of DSD with a Neural Net Model to State/Parameter

Estimation Directly by Neural Nets ", Proceedings of the PSAM 5 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Japan 2000, pp. 13-18.

40. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Maintenance logistics in presence of components’ degradation states

and aging: optimization via genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulation”, Konbin 2001 Safety

and Reliability International Conference”, 22-25 Maggio 2001, Szcrzyrk, Poland, pp. 91-100

(Invited Keynote Plenary Lecture).

41. M. Marseguerra, R. Masini, E. Zio, G. Cojazzi “Using Neural Networks as nonlinear model

interpolators in variance decomposition-based sensitivity analysis” Samo 2001 Third International

Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, June 18-20 2001, Madrid-Spain, pp. 23-26.

42. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio “Do genetic algorithms parameter optimization

strategies convey any information on the importance of the parameters?” Samo 2001 Third

International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, June 18-20 2001, Madrid-Spain,

pp. 183-187.

43. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Patelli, E. Zio “Monte Carlo Simulation of the effects of

Different Engineered Barriers on the Diffusion of Radioactive Contaminat.” Third IMACS Seminar

on Monte Carlo Methods, September 10-14, 2001, Salzburg, Austria, p. 39 (abstract only).

44. M. Marseguerra, R. Masini, E. Zio and G. Cojazzi “Neural Modeling for Sensitivity Analysis in

Reliability and Availability Calculations”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and

Reliability Conference, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 189-196.

45. J. Barata, C. Guedes Soares, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “Modeling Components’ Degradation

Processes by Monte Carlo Simulation”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and


46. S. Eisinger, E. Zio “Genetic Algorithms and Discrete Event Simulation for Optimization of

System Performance: a case study of Airport Management Optimization”, Proceedings of ESREL

2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 887-

894.

47. P. Labeau, E. Zio “Biasing Schemes in Component-based and System-based Monte Carlo

Algorithms in System Engineering”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 903-910.

48. P. Guggioli Busacca, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “Application of Genetic Algorithms to the

Multiobjective Optimization of the Inspection Times of a Safety System of a Pressurized Water

Reactor”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 16-

20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 1053-1060.

49. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio “Use of Genetic Algorithms for the Optimization of

Spare Parts Inventory”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference,

September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 1523-1530.

50. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “Principles of Monte Carlo Simulatuion for Application to Reliability

and Availability Analysis”, Tutorials Notes of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability


51. M. Ricotti, E. Zio, F. D’Auria, G. Caruso, “Reliability Methods for Passive Systems (RMPS) –

Strategy and Results”, NEA CSNI/WGRISK Workshop on Passive System Reliability, Cadarache,

France, 4-6 March, 2002.

52. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for the

Optimization of System Performance in Presence of Parameters Uncertainty”, Proceedings of

ESREL'02, LAMBDA-MU 13 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 19-21, March,

2002, Lyon, France, pp. 433-438.


Dynamics: Parameter Identification via Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings of SMORN VIII, A

symposium on Nuclear Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics, Goteborg, Sweden, 27-31 May, 2002,

CD-ROM.

54. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, A. Oldrini, “Early Fault Detection by Fuzzy Logic”,

Proceedings of SMORN VIII, A symposium on Nuclear Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics,

Goteborg, Sweden, 27-31 May, 2002, CD-ROM.

55. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. C. Giacobbo, M. Mariani, “Contaminant Transport in Experimental

Columns: Monte Carlo and Genetic Algorithm Approach to Parameters Estimation”, Proceedings

of 2nd International Conference on New Trends in Water and Environmental Engineering for Safety

and Life: Eco-compatible Solutions for Aquatic Environments, Capri, Italy, June 24-28, 2002.

56. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Bosi, “Direct Monte Carlo Availability Assessment Of A Nuclear

Safety System With Time-Dependent Failure Characteristics”, Proceedings of MMR 2002, Third

International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, 17-20 June, 2002, Trondheim,

Norway, pp. 429-432. (Invited Presentation)

57. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Modelling spare parts dynamics by multi-state Monte

Carlo simulation”, Proceedings of MMR 2002, Third International Conference on Mathematical

Methods in Reliability, 17-20 June, 2002, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 433-436. (Invited

Presentation)

58. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, C. Modica, F. Parozzi, “Neural Modelling Of Severe Accidents

Evolution In Dynamic Psa Of Level II”, Proceedings of PSAM 6 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management”, 23-28 June, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA,

pp. 871-877.

59. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Ammaturo, V. Fontana, “Predicting Reliability via Neural

Networks”, Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2003,

27-30 January 2003, Tampa Florida, pp. 196-201.

60. D. C. Ionescu, E. Zio, L. A.C. Constantinescu, “Availability Analysis of a Safety System of a

Nuclear Reactor”, Konbin 2003 Safety and Reliability International Conference, 27-30 May 2003,

Gdynia, Poland, pp. 225-233.

61. G. Bucciarelli, D. Franciotti, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Muzi, M. Ventulini, “Monte Carlo

Reliability Analysis of a Safety Plant of the Italian Gran Sasso High Energy Physics National

Laboratory by means of the MARA Code”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability

Conference ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 297-304.

62. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Fuzzy Logic: a Modelling Tool for Transient

Diagnostics”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003,

Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 1069 - 1076.

63. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Sensitivity Analysis in Monte Carlo Simulation for Dependability

Analysis”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003,


64. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Bianchi, “A Fuzzy Model for the Estimate of the Accident Rate in

Road Transport of Hazardous Materials”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability

Conference ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 1085 - 1092.

65. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Measuring the Reliability Importance of Components in Multi-State

Systems”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003, Maastricht,

The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 1753 - 1760.

66. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, “Monte Carlo approach to the solution of the

coupled flow and transport problem in unsaturated concrete barrierst”, Proceedings of MCM-

2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.45

(abstract only).

67. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, “A nuclear measurement

technique of water penetration in concrete barriers.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS

Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.45-46 (abstract only).

68. D. C. Ionescu, E. Zio, A. C. Constantinescu, P. Ulmeanu, “A Monte Carlo simulation approach

to the dependability analysis of complex system using the Petri nets formalism”, Proceedings of

MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003,

pp.47-48 (abstract only).

69. S. Eisinger, E. Zio, “Use of Monte Carlo simulation for the optimization of airport operation.”,

Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19

September 2003, pp.48 (abstract only).

70. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini “Monte Carlo estimation of first order sensitivies in

system reliability and avalaibility analysis.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on

Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.49 (abstract only).

71. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Bosi “A new biasing technique in direct Monte Carlo reliability and

avalaibility assessment.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo

Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.50 (abstract only).

72. E. Zio, L. Podofillini “A comparison of two Monte Carlo simulation approaches for the

estimation of importance measures in multi-state systems.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth

IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.50 (abstract only).

73. E. Zio, A. Cammi, A. Cioncolini “Optimal implementation of dagger sampling variance-

reducing techniques in Monte Carlo reliability analysis.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth

IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.50-51 (abstract

only).

74. E. Zio, L.Podofillini, H Svee “A risk based approach to determine type of ultrasonic inspection

and frequencies in railway applications”, Proceedings of WCRR-2003: The world congress on

railway research, Edinburgh, 28 September – 1 October 2003, pp.689-698 .

75. E. Zio, L.Podofillini, “A Monte Carlo Approach to the Estimation of Importance Measures of

Multi-State Components”, Proceedings of RAMS -2004: Annual Reliability and Maintainability,

Los Angeles, January 26 – 29, 2004, pp.129-134

76 M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte-Carlo Sampling & Simulation for Application to RAMS”,

Proceedings of RAMS -2004: Annual Reliability and Maintainability, Los Angeles, January 26 –

29, 2004, Tutorial Notes, pp.1-25 (Invited tutorial)

77 E. Zio, L. Podofillini “A Second Order Differential Importance Measure for Reliability and

Risk Applications”, Proceedings of SAMO-2004: Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Modeling

Output, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 8 - 11 , 2004, pp.01-10

78 E. Zio, M. Marella, L. Podofillini “Availability Assessment of Multi-State System with

Operational Dependence”, ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM

VII, Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004, pp.914-919

79 s. Eisinger, E. Zio, “Embedding local search procedures into Genetic Algorithms for the

optimisation of industrial systems”, ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management PSAM VII, Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004, pp.170-178

80 L. Podofillini, E. Zio, J. Vatn “Modelling the Degrading Failure of a rail Section Under

Periodic Inspection”, ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM VII,

Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004, pp.2570-2575.

81. E. Zio, M. Marella, L. Podofillini “A comparison of Different Importance Measures for

Multistate Systems”, MMR’04 Mathematical Methods in Reliability, June 21-25, 2004, CD-ROM.

82. C. M. Rocco S., E. Zio, “Bootstrap-Based Techniques for Computing Confidence Intervals in

Monte Carlo system Reliability Evaluation”, Proceedings of RAMS 2005: Annual Reliability and

Maintainability Symposium, Alexandria (VA), January 24 – 27, 2005, CD ROM.

83 M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte-Carlo Sampling & Simulation for Application to RAMS”,

Proceedings of RAMS 2005: Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Alexandria (VA),

January 24 – 27, 2005, Tutorial Notes, pp.1-25 (Invited tutorial).

84. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “The Use of Importance Measures for the Optimization of Multi-State

Systems”, Proceedings of SMRSSL'05, The International Symposium on stochastic models in

reliability, safety, security and logistics, 18-22 February, 2005, Beer-Sheba, Israel, pp. 400-404.

85. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, E. Patelli, A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to the Production availability

Evaluation of an Offshore Installation with Operational Loops”, ESREL 2005, European Safety and

Reliability Conference, vol 2, pp 2109-2117.

86. L. Podofillini, E. Zio, M. Marella, A Multi-State Monte Carlo Simulation Model of a Railway

Network system”, ESREL 2005, European Safety and Reliability Conference, vol 2, pp 1567-1575.

87. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, Calibration of Reduced Models by Multi-Objective Genetic

Algorithms”, ESREL 2005, European Safety and Reliability Conference, vol 2, pp. 1349-1356.

88. M. Delfanti, C. Bovo, M. S. Pasquadibisceglie, M. Pozzi, E. Zio, Ïndirect Monte Carlo

Approach to Evacuate Reliability and Availability Indices of Distribution Networks”, 18th

International Conference on Electricity Distribution, CIRED, Torino, Italy, 6-9 June 2005, CD-

ROM.

89. S. Carlos and E. Zio, “detection of Malfunctions in the Secondary System of a Nuclear Power

Plant by Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Energy for

New Europe 2005, 5-8 September 2005, Bled, Slovenia, CD-ROM.

90. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, “Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Parameter Estimation

in a Reduced Nuclear Reactor Model”, M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics

and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France, CD-ROM.

91. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Cadini, “An Adaptive Model-Free Fuzzy Controller”, M&C2005,

Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15,

2005, Avignon, France, CD-ROM.

92. F. Giacobbo, E. Zio, E. Patelli, “Monte Carlo Simulation of Radioactive Contaminant

Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media”, M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor

Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France, CD-ROM.

93. F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Simulation of Radionuclides Groundwater

Transport in Presence of Heterogeneities and Nonlinearities, Proceedings of Migration’05, 10th

International Conference on Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products

in Geosphere, September 18-23, Avignon, France (Abstract Only).

94. S. Carlos and E. Zio, “Deteccion de Comportamientos Anomalos en el Secundario de una

Central Nuclear de Agua en Ebullicion Utilizando Redes Neuronales”, Proceedings of the XXXI

Reunion Anual de la Sociedad Nuclear Española, 19-21 Octubre, Logroño, Espana, CD-ROM.

95. E. Zio, “The European Lookout to Industrial Safety”, Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific

Conference on Risk Management and Safety”, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong Kong, pp. 64-70.

(Invited Keynote Plenary Lecture)

96. E. Zio, C. Rocco, “Security Assessment in Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist Hazard: A

Methodological Approach Based on Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation”, Proceedings

of the International Conference on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection, CNIP ’06,

March 28-29, 2006, Rome, Italy, pp. 391-402.

97. E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “Direct Monte Carlo Simulation for the Reliability Assessment of a Space

Propulsion System Phased Mission”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, PSAM 8, May 14-18, 2006, New Orleans, USA,

CD-ROM.

98. E. Zio, I. C. Popescu, “Fault Diagnosis of Nuclear Components by Kohonen Self-Organizing

Maps”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management, PSAM 8, May 14-18, 2006, New Orleans, USA, CD-ROM.

99. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Predicting the Resistance of Power Cables to Flame

Propagation by Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic

Safety Assessment and Management, PSAM 8, May 14-18, 2006, New Orleans, USA, CD-ROM.

100. E. Zio, M. Librizzi, G. Sansavini “Biased Monte Carlo Simulation Technique for Multi-State

Network Unreliability Assessment”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic


101. D. Mandelli, T. Aldemir, E. Zio, “An Event Tree/Fault Tree Embedded Markov Model

Approach for the PSAM-8 Benchmark Problem Concerning a Phased Mission Space Propulsion

System”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and


102. E. Zio, G. Gola, “Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling for Fault Diagnosis in Rotating Machinery”,

Proceedings of the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science

(FLINS) Conference, August 29-31, 2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 825-832.

103. D. Salazar, C. Rocco, E. Zio, “Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization for Robust Design”,



104. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, N. Pedroni, “Feature Selection for Transients Classification by a Niched

Pareto Genetic Algorithm”, Proceedings of the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent

technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, August 29-31, 2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 938-

945.

105. F. Cadini, E. Zio, “Optimized Direct Fuzzy Model Reference Adaptive Control Applied to

Nuclear Reactor Dynamics”, Proceedings of the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent


953.

106. E. Zio, I. Popescu, “A Fuzzy-Logic-Based Methodology for Signal Trend Identification”,



107. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, D. Mercurio, “Identification of Transients in Nuclear Systems by a

Supervised Evolutionary Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm”, Proceedings of the 7th International

Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, August 29-31,

2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 962-969.

108. E. Zio, D. Mercurio, L. Podofillini, V. Dang, “A Fuzzy Clustering Approach for Accident

Scenarios Identification”, ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 18-

22, 2006, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 181-188.

109. E. Zio, G. Gola, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Diagnosing Faults in Rotating Machinery”,

ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 18-22, 2006, Estoril,


110. E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “Sensitivity Analysis of the Weighted Fuzzy CREAM for the Assessment of

Human Performance“, ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 18-


111. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Exploiting Importance Measures Information for Optimizing System

Design by Genetic Algorithms”, ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference,

September 18-22, 2006, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 661-669.

112. E. Zio, C.M. Rocco S., D.E. Salazar A., G. Muller, “Complex Networks Vulnerability: A

Multiple-Objective Optimization Approach”, RAMS 2007, Proceedings of RAMS 2007: Annual

Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Orlando (USA), January 2007, CD ROM.

113. L. Podofillini and E. Zio, Identification of Important Groups of Events by a Genetic Algorithm

Search, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger,

Norway, pp. 133-140.

114. E. Zio, F. Di Maio and S. Martorell, An Hybridization of Genetic Algorithms and Artificial

Neural Networks for RAMS+C Multiple Objective Optimization with Preferences, ESREL 2007,

European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 419-426.

115. D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, E. Zio, P. Baraldi and G. Gola, Solutions for Plant-Wide On-Line

Calibration Monitoring, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27,

2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 827-832.

116. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, G. Gola, D. Roverso and M. Hoffmann, Genetic Algorithms for Grouping of

Signals for System Monitoring and Diagnostics, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 833-840.

117. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, Service Reliability Analysis of a Tramway Network, ESREL 2007,


118. F. Cadini, E. Zio and N. Pedroni, Dynamic Systems Modelling by Locally Recurrent Neural

Networks, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger,


119. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, L. Podofillini and V.N. Dang, A Fuzzy Logic Model for Taking

Into Account Tasks Dependencies in Human Reliability Analysis, ESREL 2007, European Safety

and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 773-780.

120. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and I.C. Popescu, Extracting Fault Classification Rules from Fuzzy

Clustering, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger,


121. C. M. Rocco S., E. Zio and D. E. Salazar A., Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation of the

Protection of Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist Hazard, ESREL 2007, European Safety and

Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 899-905.

122. F. Cadini, E. Zio and N. Pedroni, Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic Reliability Analysis,

SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot, Poland, pp. 45-54.

123. E. Zio, Soft Computing Methods Applied to Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis for

Maintenance, SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot,

Poland, pp. 363-378 (Plenary Lecture).

124. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, L. Podofillini and V.N. Dang, Sensitivity Analysis of a Fuzzy

Expert System for Modeling Dependencies in Human Operators Emergency Tasks, SSARS 2007,

Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot, Poland, pp. 379-390.

125. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and I. C. Popescu, Optimizing a Fuzzy Fault Classification Tree by a Single-

Objective Genetic Algorithm, SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29,

2007, Sopot, Poland, pp. 391-400.

126. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, Analysis of the Safety Efficiency of a Road Network: A Real Case

Study, SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot, Poland, pp.

401-406.

127. E. Zio, Non-Deterministic Modeling in Reliability and Safety Analysis: The U-Factor, Leuven

Symposium on Applied Mechanics and Engineering – LSAME 2008, Leuven, Belgium, March 31-

April 2, 2008 (Plenary Lecture).

128. L. Podofillini, P. Baraldi, V.N. Dang, E. Zio and M. Librizzi, Techniques for Verification of

Expert Models for Dependence Assessment in Human Reliability Analysis, PSAM 9 Probabilistic

Safety Assessment and Management, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008, CD ROM.

129. E. Zio, C.A. Petrescu and G. Sansavini, Vulnerability Analysis of a Power Transmission

System, PSAM 9 Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008,

CD ROM.

130. P. Baraldi, E. Zio and M. Compare, Importance Measures in Presence of Uncertainties, SSARS

2008, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, June 22-28, 2008, Sopot, Poland, pp. 33-40.

131. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, Online Estimation of Fatigue Crack Growth by Monte Carlo-

Based Filtering, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics" WCCM8 & "5th European

Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Science and Engineering" ECCOMAS 2008,

Venice, Italy, June 20-July 4, 2008.

132. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, I. C. Popescu, Uncertainty Representation and Propagation in the

Prediction of Structural Response: A Comparison of Different Approaches, 8th World Congress on

Computational Mechanics" WCCM8 & "5th European Congress on Computational Methods in

Applied Science and Engineering" ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, Italy, June 20-July 4, 2008.

133. E. Zio, M. Broggi, L. Golea, N. Pedroni, Predicting Reliability by Recurrent Neural Networks,

8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics" WCCM8 & "5th European Congress on

Computational Methods in Applied Science and Engineering" ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, Italy, June

20-July 4, 2008.

134. F. Cadini, E. Zio and D. Avram, “Condition-Based Maintenance by Particle Filtering”,

ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Valencia, Spain,

pp. 477-482.

135. K.P. Chang, D. Chang, T.J. Rhee and E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Simulation for Investigating the

Influence of Maintenance Strategies on the Production Availability of Offshore Installations”,


pp. 703-708.

136. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, “Reliability Analysis of Discrete Multi-State Systems by Means of

Subset Simulation”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-25,

2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 709-716.

137. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, “Modeling Failure Cascades in Network systems due to Distributed

Random Disturbances”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-

25, 2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 1861-1866.

138. R. Flage, T. Aven and E. Zio, “Alternative Representations of Uncertainty in System

Reliability and Risk Analysis: Review and Discussion”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and

Reliability Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 2081-2091.

139. P. Baraldi and E. Zio, “Event Tree Uncertainty Analysis by Monte Carlo and Possibility

Theory”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-25, 2008,

Valencia, Spain, pp. 2101-2106.

140. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, S. Martorell and Y. Nebot, “Neural Networks and Order Statistics for

Quantifying Nuclear Power Plants Safety Margins”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 2873-2881.

141. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, M. Broggi, L. Golea, “Locally Recurrent Neural Networks for Nuclear

Dynamics Modeling”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies

in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 367-372.

142. P. Baraldi, F. Cadini, E. Zio, I.C. Popescu, P. Richir, L. Dechamp. M. Caviglia, Z. Dzbikwicz,

G. Janssens-Maenhout, “A Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for the Classification of Non-Linear

Functional Behaviors in Nuclear Reprocessing Plants”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy

Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25,

2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 417-422.

143. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, “Reconstruction of Faulty Signals by

an Enesemble of Principal Component Analysis Models Optimized by a Multi=Objective Genetic

ALgorithm”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in

Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 933-938.

144. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, I.C. Popescu, “Fault Classification in Nuclear Systems Based on Fuzzy

Clustering and Logic”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent

Technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp.

939-944.

145. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “A Fuzzy Logic Model for the Assessment of Crew

Performance in Simulated Scenarios”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and

Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid,

Spain, pp. 1003-1008.

146. F. Cadini, E. Zio and C. Petrescu, “Using Centrality Measures to Rank the Importance of the

Components of a Complex Network Infrastructure”, 3rd International Workshop on Critical

Information Infrastructure Security, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October 13-15, 2008, pp. 187-199.

147. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "A procedure for the reconstruction of

faulty signals by means of an ensemble of regression models based on principal components

analysis", 6th American Nuclear Society Topic Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls

and Human Machine Interface Technology, NPIC-HMIT, 5-9 April 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee,

USA. CD-ROM.

148. E. Zio, F. Di Maio,“Fuzzy Clustering Classification of Dynamic Scenarios of Digital

Instrumentation and Control in Nuclear Power Plants”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear

Society (ANS) NPIC HMIT 2009 Topical Meeting - Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls, and

Human Machine Interface Technology, 5-9 April 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Nuclear

Society, USA. CD-ROM.

149. F. Di Maio, M. Stasi, E. Zio, D. Mandelli, T. Aldemir, “Identification of Faults in a Level

Control Dynamic System”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) NPIC HMIT 2009

Topical Meeting - Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls, and Human Machine Interface

Technology, 5-9 April 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Nuclear Society, USA. CD-ROM.

150. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "A novel ensemble model aggregation

for robust signal reconstruction in nuclear power plants monitoring", 22nd International

COMADEM Conference, Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, 9-11

June 2009, San Sebastian, Spain.

151. F. Cadini, E. Zio, C.A. Petrescu, “A multi-objective genetic algorithm for the optimization of

electrical transmission networks”, MMR2009, 6th International Conference on Mathematical

Methods in Reliability Theory. Methods. Applications, 22-27 June, 2009, Moskow, Russia.

152. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Compare, G. Rossetti, A. Despujols: Modeling of Degradation

mechanisms in electrical components taking into account their actual living conditions. ICRMS

2009. July 20-24, 2009, Chengdu, China.

153. J. Andrews, C. Berenguer, M. Eid, E. Zio: ESReDA/ESRA maintenance modeling and

applications project group. ICRMS 2009. July 20-24, 2009, Chengdu, China.

154. C. Fiorini, A. Marone, P. Baraldi, F.Cadini, E. Zio, F.Camera, "Employing Neural Networks to

Determine the Position of Interaction of Medium-High Energy Gamma Rays", IEEE Nuclear

Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 25-31 October 2009, Orlando Florida, USA

155 F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, “Particle filtering for the estimation of system mode of operation”,

SSARS 2009 Summer Safety & Reliability Seminars, July 19-25, 2009 Gdańsk/Sopot, Poland.

156. F. Cadini, E. Zio, L. Golea, C.A. Petrescu, "Multi-objective genetic algorithms for the

reliability analysis and optimization of electrical transmission networks", SSARS 2009 Summer

Safety & Reliability Seminars, July 19-25, 2009 Gdańsk/Sopot, Poland

157. P. Baraldi, M. Conti, M. Librizzi, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, "A Bayesian Network

Model for Dependence Assessment in Human Reliability Analysis", ESREL 2009, European Safety

and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 223-230.

158. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "A Dempster-Shafer theory of Evidence approach to model uncertainty

analysis", ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009,

Prague, Czech Republic.

159. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Aggregation of randomized model

ensemble outcomes for reconstructing nuclear signals from faulty sensors", ESREL 2009,

European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.

160. R. Flage, P. Baraldi, F. Ameruso, E. Zio, T. Aven, "Handling epistemic uncertainties in fault

tree analysis by probabilistic and possibilistic approaches", ESREL 2009, European Safety and

Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.

161. V. Zille, A. Despujols, P. Baraldi, G. Rossetti, E. Zio: “A Framework for the Monte Carlo

simulation of Degradation and Failure processes in the assessment of maintenance programs

performance”. ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009,


162. L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, P. Baraldi, M. Conti, E. Zio, “A review of Decision Tree models for

assessing Human Reliability Analysis dependence”, ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.

163. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Compare, G. Rossetti, A. Despujols: “A Novel approach to Model the

Degradation of components in electrical production plants”. ESREL 2009, European Safety and


164. E. Zio. and Sansavini, G., “Indicators of component criticality for failure cascade processes in

network systems”, in Reliability, Risk and Safety: Theory and Applications – Briš, Guedes Soares &

Martorell (eds), Proceedings of ESREL 2009 Europe Annual Conference, 6-11 September 2009,

Prague, Czech Republic, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-55509-8.

165. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, “Identification of betweenness-central groups of components in a complex

network infrastructure by genetic algorithms”, ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 7-10, 2009 Prague, Czech Republic.

166. F. Cadini, E. Zio and C. Petrescu, “Multi-objective genetic algorithm optimization of electrical

power transmission networks”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, ESREL 2009, September 7-10, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 1917-1923.

167. E. Zio, F. Cadini, D. Avram, T. Girotti, A. Luce and A. Taglioni, "Monte Carlo simulation of a

compartment model of radionuclide migration at a radioactive waste repository". Proceedings of

the 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste

Management, ICEM’09/DECOM’09, October 11-15, 2009, Liverpool, UK.

168. F. Di Maio, P. Secchi, S. Vantini, E. Zio, “Functional Principal Component Analysis for

Dynamic Fault Scenarios Classification”, Proceedings of S.Co.2009 Conference- Complex Data

Modeling and Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods for Estimation and Prediction, Milano,

Italy, September 2009.

169. F. Di Maio, M. Stasi, P. Secchi, S. Vantini, E. Zio, “Dynamic Fault Scenarios For Training A

Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Fault Classifier”, Proceedings of S.Co.2009 Conference- Complex Data



170. E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Simulation Metohds for Reliability Estimation and Failure Prognostics”,

Proceedings of S.Co.2009 Conference- Complex Data Modeling and Computationally Intensive

Statistical Methods for Estimation and Prediction, Milano, Italy, September 2009. (Inivted paper)

171. E. Zio, F. Di Maio,”Methods and tools for the risk-informed design and operation of safe

nuclear power plants”, Proceedings of the Conference “The Italian Contribution to the EU Science

& Technology Fellowship Programme in China”, Italian Embassy, Beijing, China, September 24,

2009.

172. G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "Large scale nuclear sensor monitoring

and diagnostics by means of an ensemble of regression models based on Evolving Clustering

Methods", 10th International Probability Safety Assessment & Management Conference, 7-11 June,

Seattle, USA (2010), pp. 1-10, 2010.

173. F. Cadini, D. Avram, E. Zio, A. Luce, A. Taglioni, "Monte Carlo simulation-based reliability

model for the PSA of a radioactive waste repository". Journal of Polish Safety and Reliability

Association, (Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars - SSARS 2010), Vol. 1, pp. 43 - 50.

174. G.E. Apostolakis, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, "Artificial Neural Networks and quadratic Response

Surfaces for the functional failure analysis of a thermal-hydraulic passive system", Proceedings of

the 10th International PSAM Conference, pp. 1-12, 2010.

175. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, "Sensitivity analysis of the model of a nuclear passive system by means of

Subset Simulation", Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sixth International Conference on

Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO), July 19-22, Milano (Italy), pp. 7778-7779, 2010.

176. Zio E., Piccinelli R., Delfanti M., Pozzi M., Olivieri V., "Performance analysis of a power

transmission system under uncertain load conditions and network configurations". Journal of Polish

Safety and Reliability Association, (Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars - SSARS 2010), Vol.

1.

177. Y. Yu, T. Liu, J. Tong, J. Zhao, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A. Zhang, “Multi-Experts Analytic

Hierarchy Process for the Sensitivity Analysis of Passive Safety Systems”, Proceedings of the 10th

International Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management Conference, PSAM10, Seattle, June

2010.

178. Y. Yu, T. Liu, J. Tong, J. Zhao, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A. Zhang, “Variance Decomposition

Sensitivity Analysis of a Passive Residual Heat Removal System Model”, Proceedings of the Sixth

International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, SAMO2010, Milano, July 2010.

179. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, A. Despujols, G. Rossetti, E. Zio, : An hybrid Monte Carlo and

Fuzzy Logic method for maintenance modelling. The 38th ESReDA Seminar and the 3rd joint

ESReDA/ESRA. 'Advanced Maintenance Modelling'. (4-5th May, 2010).

180. F. Cadini, D. Avram, A. Cherubini, J.D. Sanctis, E. Zio, A. Guadagnini, M. Riva, A. Luce, A.

Taglioni, An Integrated Monte Carlo Simulation and MODFLOW Model for the Performance

Assessment of a Radioactive Waste Repository. XVIII International Conference on Water

Resources CMWR 2010, J. Carrera (Ed), CIMNE, June 21-24, 2010, Barcelona.

181. F. Cadini, E. Zio, G. Peloni "Detection of the Time of Failure of a Hybrid System by Particle

Filtering in a Log-likelihood Ratio Approach". IEEE - Prognostics & System Health Management

Conference 2010 (PHM-2010 Macau), 12-14 January, 2010, China.

182. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, N. Pedroni, “Estimation of the failure

probability of a thermal-hydraulic passive system by means of

Artificial Neural Networks and quadratic Response Surfaces”, Proceedings of European safety and

Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

183. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, G. Sansavini, N. Pedroni, "Assessing the feasibility

of a cascade prediction model for electrical transmission networks using

Subset Simulation", Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010),

Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

184. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, "Modeling failure cascades in critical

infrastructures with physically-characterized components and

interdependencies", Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010),

Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

185. E. Zio and F. Di Maio, "Data-Driven On-Line Prediction of the Available

Recovery Time in Nuclear Power Plant Failure Scenarios", Proceedings of European safety and

Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

186. A. Arata, E. Zio, F. Kristjanpoller and P. Viveros, “Integrated Analysis of System Reliability

and Productive Capacity of a Production Line”, Proceedings of European safety and Reliability

conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

187. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Level Diagrams for Decision Aiding in Multiobjective Optimization

Problems”, Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes,

Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

188. R. Flage, P. Baraldi, E. Zio and T. Aven, “Possibility-Probability Transformation in

Comparing Different Approaches to the Treatment of Epistemic Uncertainties in a Fault Tree

Analysis”, Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes,


189. I.D. Lins, M.C. Moura, E. L. Droguett and E. Zio, “Reliability Prediction of Oil Production

Wells by Particle Swarm Optimized Support Vector Machines”, Proceedings of European safety

and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

190. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Compare, G. Rizzi , M. De Nigris, “Electrical cable diagnostics using an

experimental dataset of Partial Discharge measurements containing contradictory patterns”,

Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9

September, 2010, CD-ROM.

191. P. Baraldi, G. Gola, M. Hoffmann, F. Mangili, D. Roverso, E. Zio, “Comparison of different

methods of aggregation of model ensemble outcomes in the validation and reconstruction of real

nuclear power plant signals”, Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL

2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September, 2010, CD-ROM.

192. W. Kroger and E. Zio, “Some Considerations on Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability

Assessment”, Proceedings of European safety and Reliability conference (ESREL 2010), Rhodes,


193. P. Baraldi, R. Canesi, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, R. Chevalier, "Signal Grouping for Condition

Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plant Components", Seventh American Nuclear Society International

Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface

Technologies NPIC&HMIT 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7-11, 2010, on CD-ROM,

American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2010).

194. Baraldi, P., Razavi-Far, R., Zio, E., 2010. A Method for Estimating the Confidence in the

Identification of Nuclear Transients by a Bagged Ensemble of FCM Classifiers. Seventh American

Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and

Human-Machine Interface Technologies NPIC&HMIT 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7-11,

2010, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2010).

195. E. Zio, “Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Reliability Estimation and Failure Prognostics”,

SMRLO’10, International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life

Science and Operations Management, Beer-Sheva, Israel, February 8-11, 2010.

196. Moura, M. C.; Lins, I. D.; Zio, E.; Droguett, E. L. "Combining Particle Swarm Optimization

and Support Vector Regression for Reliability Prediction". Proceedings of the 10th International

PSAM Conference, pp. 1-10.

197. O. Nusbaumer, W. Kroger and E. Zio, “Analytical Solutions of Large Fault Tree Models using

BDD: New Techniques and Applications”. Proceedings of the 10th International PSAM

Conference, pp. 1-10.

198. L. Podofillini, D. Mercurio, V.N. Dang and E. Zio, "An Identification and Grouping Approach

to the Analysis of the Output of a Dynamic Safety Assessment ", Procedia - Social and Behavioral

Sciences, Sixth International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO), July

19-22, Milano (Italy), pp. 7778-7779, 2010.



ESReDA/ESRA. 'Advanced Maintenance Modelling'. 4-5th May, 2010, Pecs, Hungary.

200. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, T. Girotti, E. Zio, A. Luce, A. Taglioni (2010). A Monte Carlo

Simulation Model for Radionuclide Migration at the Repository Scale. (pp. 1- 5). In: PSAM 10 -

10th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management Conference. June 7-11,

2010, Seattle, USA.

201 F. Di Maio, E. Zio, L. Tao, J. Tong, “Passive System Accident Scenario Analysis by

Simulation”, submitted for publication on the proceedings of PSA2011, International Topical

meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis, March 13-17, 2011, Wilmington, USA,

CDROM.

202. W. Zhao, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "Confidence in Signal Reconstruction by the Evolving Clustering

Method", IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference, Shenzhen, China, 23-25

May 2011, CDROM.

203. C. Fang, F. Marle and E. Zio, “An Integrated Framework for the Optimization of Project Risk

Response Plan under Resource Constraints with Genetic Algorithm”, Proceedings of the

International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety (ICQR2SM), Xian,

China, June 17- 19, 2011, pp. 910-915.

204. F. Di Maio, S.S.Y. Ng, K.L. Tsui, E. Zio, “Naïve Bayesian Classifier for On-line Remaining

Useful Life Prediction of Degrading Bearings”, Proceedings of The Seventh International

Conference on “Mathematical Methods in Reliability”MMR2011, Beijing, China, June 20-24, 2011,

pp. 506-513.

205. E. Zio and G. Viadana, “Differential Evolution for Single-objective Optimization”,

Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on “Mathematical Methods in

Reliability”MMR2011, Beijing, China, June 20-24, 2011, pp. 230-237.

206. E. Zio, R. Bazzo, “Clustering Of Multiple System Reliability Design Solutions For Decision

Making”, ICASP 11 - 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in

Civil Engineering, August 1-4, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

207. E. Zio, G. Sansavini, “Modeling cascading failures in ‘systems of systems’ with uncertain

behavior”, ICASP 11 - 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability

in Civil Engineering, August 1-4, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

208. F. Di Maio, E. Zio, M. Pecht, P. Tse, K.L. Tsui, “Ensemble of Unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means

Clustering Models for Classifying the Health Status of Oil Sand Pumps”, Proceedings of European

Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011,

CDROM.

209. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, F. Di Maio, L. Pappaglione, R. Chevalier, R. Seraoui, “Differential

Evolution for Optimal Grouping of Condition Monitoring Signals of Nuclear Components”,

submitted for publication on the proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011

(ESREL 2011), Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

210. P. Baraldi, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, E. Ferrario, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, "Monte Carlo and fuzzy

interval propagation of hybrid uncertainties on a risk model for the design of a flood protection

dike", Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes,

France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

211. P. Baraldi, A. Balestero, M. Compare, E. Zio, A. Despujols, L. Benetrix : A new modeling

framework of component degradation. Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference

2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

212. R. Flage, T. Aven, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "On imprecision in relation to uncertainty importance

measures", Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011),

Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

213. E.Zio, R.Piccinelli, G.Sansavini, "An All-Hazard Approach for the Vulnerability Analysis of

Critical Infrastructures", Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL

2011), Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

214. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, G. Sansavini, "Optimization of electrical grid protection by a differential

evolution algorithm" Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL


215. E. Kunzetsova, K. Culver and E. Zio, "Complexity and Vulnerability of SmartGrid Systems"

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes,


216. I.D. Lins, M.C. Moura, E. L Droguett, E. Zio, C.M. Jacinto, “Reliability prediction of oil wells

by support vector machine with particle swarm optimization for variable selection and

hyperparameter tuning”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011


217. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, E.Zio, “Challenges in Monte Carlo Simulation of Non-Llinear

Radioactive Contaminant Release Processes”, Proceedings of the International High Level

Radioactive Waste Conference, IHLRWC, Albuquerque, USA, April, 10-14, 2011, CD-ROM.

218. Kuznetsova, E., Li, Y., Culver, K., & Zio, E. 2011. A simulation model for adequacy

assessment of distributed generation. International Conference on Complex System Design and

Management (CSDM2011), Paris, December 2011, CD-ROM, pp. 1-12.

219. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio “Unsupervised Clustering for Fault Diagnosis”, Prognostics and

System Health Management Conference (PHM2012), Beijing, China, 23-25 May 2012, CD-ROM.

220. Li Y.F., Lin Y.H., Zio E. Stochastic Modeling by Inhomogeneous Continuous Time Markov

Chains. EURO workshop on Stochastic Modelling, 2012, Paris, France, 30 May – 1 June, 2012. pp.

1.

221. E. Zio, M. Broggi, L. Golea, N. Pedroni, “Failure and Reliability Predictions by Locally

Recurrent Neural Networks”, in: V. Cozzani, E. De Rademaeker (Eds.), Chemical Engineering

Transactions – Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Safety & Environment in Process

& Power Industry (CISAP-5), Milano, Italy, 3-6 June 2012, Volume 26, pp. 117-122, published by

The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering-AIDIC, 2012, ISBN 978-88-95608-17-4, ISSN

1974-9791.

222. E. Zio, R. Piccinelli, G. Sansavini, A Framework For Ranking The Attack Susceptibility Of

Components Of Critical Infrastructures, in: V. Cozzani, E. De Rademaeker (Eds.), Chemical

Engineering Transactions – Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Safety &

Environment in Process & Power Industry (CISAP-5), Milano, Italy, 3-6 June 2012, Volume 26, pp.

117-122, published by The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering-AIDIC, 2012, ISBN 978-

88-95608-17-4, ISSN 1974-9791.

223. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, S. Sauco, E. Droguett, C. Magno, “Sensitivity Analysis of Scale

Deposition on Equipment of Oil Wells Plantsin: V. Cozzani, E. De Rademaeker (Eds.), Chemical




88-95608-17-4, ISSN 1974-9791.

224. P. Baraldi , F. Mangili , E. Zio , "Ensemble of Bootstrapped Models for the prediction of the

Remaining Useful Life of a Creeping Turbine Blade", 2012 IEEE International Conference on

PHM, June 18-21, 2012, Denver, Colorado. CD-ROM.

225. Ak R., Li Y. F., Vitelli V., Zio E. 2012. Estimation of wind speed prediction intervals by multi-

objective genetic algorithms and neural networks. Acts of the XLVI Scientific Meeting of the Italian

Statistical Society (SIS 2012), Rome, Italy, 20-22 June 2012 (pp. 1-4).

226. G. Gola, B. Nystad, P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, Health Assessment of Choke Valves

undergoing Erosion with a Hybrid Ensemble Approach, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International

Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety

and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-

ROM.

227. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, E. Ferrario, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, “Propagation of aleatory and

epistemic uncertainties in the model for the design of a flood protection dike”, Proceedings of the

joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM

11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June

2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

228. Y.F. Li, E. Zio, G. Sansavini, L.R. Golea, “A Multi-Objective Memetic Optimization Method

for Power Network Cascading Failures Protection”, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International



ROM.

229. Enrico Zio, Lucia Roxana Golea, Karen Hsu, Chia-Hui Huang, Giovanni Sansavini, “Network

Analysis of a Real Power Transmission System”, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International



ROM.

230. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence to handle maintenance

models tainted with imprecision". Proceedings of the joint 2012 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability

Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

231. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, S. Sauco, E. Droguett, C. Magno, “Ensemble of Neural

Networks for Predicting Scale Deposition in Oil Well Plant Equipments”, Proceedings of the joint

2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) &

European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June 2012,

pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

232. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, F. Di Maio & L. Pappaglione, R. Chevalier and R. Seraoui “Signal

Reconstruction During Operational Transients of Electrical Power Plants”, Proceedings of the joint



pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

233. Ferrario E., Zio E. 2012. A system-of-systems framework of Nuclear Power Plant Probabilistic

Seismic Hazard Analysis by Fault Tree analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation, Proceedings of the



2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

234, Li Y.F., Kumar M., Zio E. 2012. Petri-Net Simulation Model of a Nuclear Component

Degradation Process, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL

2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

235. Zio E., Mena R., Viveros P., Kristjanpoller F., Arata A. 2012. Simulation and Multi-Objective

Optimization of an Open-Pit Mine Truck-Shovel System by the Cross-Entropy Method, Proceedings

of the joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

(PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-

29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

236. Wang T.R., Liu T.,Tong J.J., Zio E.,Zhao J.2012. Incorporate Modelling Uncertainty into the

Decision Making of Passive System Reliability Assessment, Proceedings of the joint 2012

International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) &


pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

237. Isis Didier Lins, Marcio das Chagas Moura, Enrique Lopez Droguett, Enrico Zio, Carlos

Magno Jacinto, Uncertainty Assessment through Bootstrapped Support Vector Regression,

Proceedings of the joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki,

Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

238. Pablo Viveros, Enrico Zio, Christopher Nikulin, Raúl Stegmaier, Gloria Bravo, Integration of

root cause analysis and theory of inventive problem solving, Proceedings of the joint 2012



pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

239. Torbjørn Bjerga, Terje Aven, Enrico Zio, An application of a new framework for model

(output) uncertainty analysis in risk assessment, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International



ROM.

240. Baraldi, P., Compare, M., Sauco S. Zio, E. Fatigue crack growth prognostics by Particle

Filtering application and Ensemble of Neural Network. 1st PHM European Conference, Dresden,

July 2012, CD-ROM.

241. P. Baraldi , F. Mangili , E. Zio , G. Gola , B. Nystad , A hybrid ensemble approach for process

parameter estimation in offshore oil platforms, FLINS, August 26-29, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

242. R. Razavi Far, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, ENSEMBLE OF NEURAL NETWORKS FOR

DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF FAULTS IN NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS, FLINS,

August 26-29, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

243. Ak R., Li Y.F., Zio E. 2012. Estimation of prediction intervals of neural network models by a

multi-objective genetic algorithm. In Proc Flins 2012, Istanbul, Aug. 26-29, 2012.

244. Li Y.F., Zio E., Lin Y.H., Despujols A. 2012. A Multi-state Simulation Framework for

Modeling Degradation in Components of Energy Systems. Lambda Mu 18, Tours, France, 16-18,

Oct, 2012.

245. Couillet R., Zio E. 2012. A subspace approach to fault diagnostics in large power systems.

(Invited Paper) IEEE International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing

(ISCCSP'12), Rome, Italy, 2012 (pp. 1-4, CD-ROM).

246. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2013): Extreme learning machines for predicting operation

disruption events in railway systems, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability

Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October, 2013.

247. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2013): Anticipating railway operation disruption events based

on the analysis of discrete-event diagnostic data, PHM 2013, Chemical Engineering Transactions,

33.

248. Yan-Fu Li, Yi Ding, Enrico Zio. 2013. Hybrid Universal Generating Function for the

Reliability Assessment of Multi-State Systems under Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties.

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam, Netherlands,

29 September – 2 October, 2013.

249. Ronay Ak, Yan-Fu Li, Valeria Vitelli, Enrico Zio. 2013. A Genetic Algorithm-and-Neural

Network Technique for Predicting Wind Power under Uncertainty. PHM 2013, Chemical

Engineering Transactions, 33.

250. Yi-Ping Fang, Enrico Zio. 2013. Optimal Production Facility Allocation for Failure Resilient

Critical Infrastructures. Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL),

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October, 2013.

251. Ferrario E., Pedroni N., Zio E. Line sampling and Fuzzy Interval Analysis for the propagation

of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in risk models. Proceedings of the European Safety and

Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October, 2013.

252. Tairan Wang, Vincent Mousseau, Enrico Zio. 2013. A Hierarchical Decision Making

Framework for Vulnerability Analysis. Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability


253. Chung-Kung Lo, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, Bayesian probabilistic analysis of a nuclear power plant

small loss of coolant event tree model with possibilistic parameters. Proceedings of the European

Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October,

2013.

254. Yan-Hui Lin, Yan-Fu Li, Enrico Zio. 2013. Multi-State Physics Model for the Reliability

Assessment of a Component under Degradation Processes and Random Shocks. Proceedings of the

European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 2

October, 2013.

255. Jie Liu, Redouane Seraoui, Valeria Vitelli, Enrico Zio. 2013. Probabilistic Support Vector

Regression for Short-Term Prediction of Power Plants Equipment. PHM 2013, Chemical


256. Jie Liu, Valeria Vitelli, Redouane Seraoui, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio. 2013. Short-Term

Prediction for Nuclear Power Plant Failure Scenarios Using an Ensemble-based Approach.



257. Ronay Ak, Valeria Vitelli, Enrico Zio. 2013. Uncertainty Modeling in Wind Power Generation

Prediction by Neural Networks and Bootstrapping. Proceedings of the European Safety and


258. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, "Bayesian update of the parameters of probability

distributions for risk assessment in a level-2 hybrid probabilistic-possibilistic uncertainty

framework", Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam,

Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October, 2013.

259. R. Mena, Y.F. Li, M. Hennebel, C. Ruiz, E. Zio, ""Optimal sizing and allocation of distributed

generation for reliable energy distribution accounting for uncertainty"", Proceedings of the


October, 2013.

260. E. Kuznetsova, Y.F. Li, C. Ruiz, E. Zio, Reliable microgrid energy management under

environmental uncertainty and mechanical failures: an agent-based modeling and robust

optimization approach. Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL),


261. Rocco C.M., Zio E.: “Global Sensitivity Analysis of Multi-State Markov Reliability Models of

Power Equipment Approximated by Polynomial Chaos Expansion”, KONBiN 2013, Varsovia,

Polonia, May 2013, Journal of KONBiN 3(23)2013, pp. 59-70, ISSN 1895-8281.

262. Briceño H., Rocco C.M., Zio E.: “Singular Spectrum Analysis for Forecasting of Electric Load

Demand”, to be presented at 2013 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference PHM-

2013 Milan, published in Chemical Engineering Transaction, Vol.33, 201.

263. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, S. Al-Dahihi, “Condition-Based Maintenance Modelling and

Decision Making taking into account Uncertainties”, GDRR 2013 - Third Symposium on Games

and Decisions in Reliability and Risk, Kinsale, Ireland, 8-10 July 2013.

264. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, “Transients Analysis of a Nuclear

Power Plant Component for Fault Diagnosis”, Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health

Management Conference (PHM‐2013), Milan, Italy, 8-11 September 2013.

265. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, D. Genini, "A fuzzy similarity based method for signal

reconstruction during plant transients", Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management

Conference (PHM?2013), Milan, Italy, 8-11 September 2013.

266. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, F. Mangili, E. Zio,“A Belief Function Theory Method for Prognostics

in Clogging Filters”, Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management Conference

(PHM‐2013), Milan, Italy, 8-11 September 2013.

267. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “Minimal Cut Sets Identification by Hierarchical

Differential Evolution”, PSA 2013, the International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Analysis, 22-27 September 2013, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.


vibration signals for identifying anomalous conditions in a nuclear turbine”, accepted, PHM2013

Conference, New Orleans, 7-14 October 2013.

269. P. Baraldi , F. Cadini , F. Mangili , E. Zio, "Prognostics under different available

information"", Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management Conference


270. P. Baraldi, F. Barbisotti, R. Capanna, S. Colombo, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, "Assessment of the

Performance of a Fully Electric Vehicle Subsystem in Presence of a Prognostic and Health

Monitoring System", Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management Conference


271. T. Aven, P. Baraldi, R. Flage, E. Zio, SRA Annual Meeting, 8-11 December 2013.

272. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, A combination of gaussian processes and principal component

analysis for prediction of radionuclide migration, Proceedings of the European Safety and


273. E. Borgonovo, F. Cadini, E. Zio, Global Sensitivity Analysis from Given Data: An Application

to a model for radionuclide migration in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer, Proceedings of the


October, 2013.

274. R. Filippini and E. Zio, Integrated resilience and risk analysis framework for critical

infrastructures, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL),


275 I. Prodan, E. Zio, "An optimization-based control approach for reliable microgrid energy

management under uncertainties." In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Integration of

Stochastic Energy in Power Systems (ISEPS 2013), Bucharest (Roumanie) : 1-4, 2013.

276. E. Zio, “Modern RAMS analysis and maintenance engineering for modern industry”,

Proceedings of the WMF 2013, World Maintenance Forum 2013, Lugano, Switzerland, 4-6, 2013.

277. E. Zio, “Complex systems reliability: a complex challenge for reliability analysts”, Proceedings

of MMR 2013, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 30-July 4,

2013.

278. F. Di Maio, G. Nicola, Y. Yu, E. Zio, “Sensitivity Analysis and Failure Damage Domain

Identification of the Passive Containment Cooling System of an AP1000 Nuclear Reactor”,

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM12, Honolulu, USA, 22-24

June, 2014.

279. M. Rigamonti, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, D. Astigarraga, A. Galarza, "A Particle Filtering-Based

Approach for the Prediction of the Remaining Useful Life of an Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor",

The Second European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2014 (PHME

2014), Nantes, France, 8th – 10th July 2014,

280. S. Al-Dahidi, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, "Quantification of Signal Reconstruction

Uncertainty in Fault Detection Systems", The Second European Conference of the Prognostics and

Health Management Society 2014 (PHME 2014), Nantes, France, 8th – 10th July 2014, Pages 365-

378.

281. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, "A Prognostic Approach Based on Particle Filtering and

Optimized Tuning Kernel Smoothing", The Second European Conference of the Prognostics and


193.

282. D. McDonnell, N. Balfe, S. Al-Dahidi, G.E. O’Donnell, "A Model for Human-Centred

Decision Support System Design in PHM", The Second European Conference of the Prognostics

and Health Management Society 2014 (PHME 2014), Nantes, France, 8th – 10th July 2014, Pages

585-600.

283. Sansavini G. and Zio E., Vulnerability of Transmission Grids with Variable Generation and

Consumption: a Complex Network Systems Perspective, Second International Conference on

Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the sixth International

Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA), 13-16 July 2014, Liverpool, UK, pp.

658 – 667.

284. Zio E., Vulnerability and risk analysis of critical infrastructures, Second International

Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the sixth

International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA), 13-16 July 2014,

Liverpool, UK (invited keynote lecture).

285. F. Cadini, A. Gioletta, E. Zio (2014). Performance assessment of a radioactive waste repository

by adaptive kriging and importance sampling monte carlo simulation. In: Second International

Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM 2014). Liverpool, UK,

13-16 July 2014, 2104-2114.

286. Giovanni Sansavini, Marco Buldrini, Michele Compare, Lorenzo Beretta, Lucia Legnani,

Enrico Zio, Risk assessment related to the catastrophic rupture of a LOX cryogenic tank,

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland,

September 2014.

287. Michele Compare, Lucia Legnani, Enrico Zio, MUSTADEPT: A tool for the analysis of

industrial equipment degradation, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference,

ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

288. F. Di Maio, Michele Compare, S. Mattafirri, Enrico Zio, A double-loop Monte Carlo approach

for Part Life Data Base reconstruction and scheduled maintenance improvement, Proceedings of the

European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

289. M. Rigamonti, S. Rantala, "Hilbert-Huang transforms for fault detection and degradation

assessment in electrical motors", Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications -


September 2014, pp. 939-944.

290. S. Al-Dahidi, "The Use of Self Organizing Maps for Diagnosing Faults in Motor Bearings",

Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications - Proceedings of the European Safety and

Reliability Conference, ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014, pp. 895-902.

291. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, P. Turati, E. Zio, “A modified Auto Associatie Kernel Regression

method for robust signal recostruction in nuclear power plant components”, Safety and Reliability:

Methodology and Applications, Proceedings of the ESREL 2014 Conference, Wroclaw, Polonia,

14-18 Settembre 2014, pp. 917 – 922.

292. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, A. Galarza, D. Astigarraga, I. Unanue, A.

Ruddle, S. Rantal, "A Procedure for Practical Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Fully Electric

Vehicles for Enhanced Safety and Reliability", HEVC 2014

293. B. Sedano, D. Astigarraga, P. Baraldi, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, "Assessment of the improvement

in the safety and reliability of a Fully Electric Vehicle achieved by embedding an Electrical

Powertrain Prognostic and Health Monitoring System", European Electric Vehicle Congress

Brussels, December 2014, (EEVC 2014).

294. X. Liu, I. Prodan, E. Zio. On the Resilience Analysis of Interconnected Systems by a Set-

Theoretic Approach. European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2014). 14-18 September,

2014. Wrocław, Poland.

295. X. Liu, I. Prodan, E. Zio. Resilience Analysis of Interconnected Systems by a Set-Theoretic

Approach. Lambda-Mu 19 Conference. 21-23 Octobre, 2014. Dijion, France.

296. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, and E. Zio. Sensitivity Analysis of a Simulation Model for Evaluating

Renewable Distributed Generation on a Power Network. In: Proceedings 13th International

Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems PMAPS; IEEE, Durham, England,

2014.

297. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li E. Zio. Dynamic Reliability Models for Multiple Dependent Competing

Degradation Processes. European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2014). 14-18

September, 2014. Wrocław, Poland.

298. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li E. Zio. Modeling Multiple Dependent Competing Degradations Under

Epistemic Uncertainty Via Pdmp. Lambda-Mu 19 Conference. 21-23 Octobre, 2014. Dijion, France.

299. J. Liu, V. Valeria, R. Seraoui, E. Zio. Dynamic Weighted PSVR-Based Ensembles for

Prognostics of Nuclear Components. 2nd European Conference of the PHM Society - PHME'14.

July 8-10, 2014. Nantes, France.

300. J. Liu, V. Valeria, R. Seraoui, E. Zio. An Efficient Online Learning Approach For Support

Vector Regression. FLINS, Brazil, 2014.

301. I. Prodan and E. Zio. On the microgrid energy management under a predictive control

framework. In the Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. pp.

111--118, 8-10 October, Antibes, France, 2014.

302. Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2014. A Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Approach for non-Homogeneous

Redundancy Allocation in Series-Parallel Multi-State Systems. ICRMS 2014. Guangzhou, China,

6–8 Aug., 2014.

303. Ferrario E., Pedroni N., Zio E. Analysis of the robustness of critical infrastructures within a

multistate systems-of-systems framework in the presence of epistemic uncertainties. Accepted for

publication in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk

Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) and Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty,

Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA2014). University of Liverpool, UK, 13-16 July 2014.

304. Y.P. Fang, N. Pedroni, E. Zio. Optimal Capacity Allocation for a Failure Resilient Electrical

Infrastructure. In the Proceedings of 16th International Dependency and Structure Modelling

Conference (DSM 2014). Paris, France, July 2 – 4, 2014.

305. Y.P. Fang, N. Pedroni, E. Zio. Comparing Topological and Physical Approaches to Network

Modelling for the Optimization of Failure Resilient Electrical Infrastructures. In the Proceedings of

the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management

(ICVRAM2014) and Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling and Analysis

(ISUMA2014). University of Liverpool, UK, 13-16 July 2014.

306. Tao Tao, Wei Zhao, Yanfu Li, Enrico Zio. 2014. Condition-based component replacement of

the pneumatic valve with the unscented particle filter.. IEEE PHM 2014. Zhangjiajie city, China.

307. Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Vasile Palade, Enrico Zio,: Optimal detection of new classes of faults by

an invasive weed optimization method. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, in the

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, pp. 91-98,

July 6-11, Beijing China, 2014.

308. Sansavini, G.; Zio, E., Vulnerability of transmission grids with variable generation and

consumption: a complex network systems perspective, Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk.

Quantification, Mitigation, and Management. Second International Conference on Vulnerability and

Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty

Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA) Location: Liverpool, UK Date: 13-16 July 2014.

309. F. Cannarile, Compare, M., Di Maio, F., Zio, E., "Handling reliability big data: a similarity-

based approach for clustering a large fleet of assets" European Safety and Reliability Conference

2015 (ESREL 2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

310. F. Cannarile, Compare, M., Mattafirri, S., Carlevaro, F., Zio, E., "Comparison of Weibayes and

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for the reliability analysis of turbine nozzle components with

right censored data only" European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015 (ESREL 2015), 7-10

September, Zurich, Switzerland.

311. M. Compare, A. Mancuso, T. Laasko, A. Salo, E. Zio, Identification of the most critical pipes

in the presence of imprecise information, European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015 (ESREL

2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

312. M. Compare, E.Zio: A General Approach for Automating FMECA. European Safety and

Reliability Conference 2015 (ESREL 2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

313. M. Rigamonti, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, A. Alessi, D. Astigarraga, A. Galarza, "A Self-Organizing

Map-Based Monitoring System for Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors Operating in Fully Electric

Vehicle", pp. 1-9, 2015 Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, San

Diego, California, United States, 18th - 24th October 2015.

314. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, and R. Seraoui, Unsupervised Ensemble

Clustering for Transients Classification in a Nuclear Power Plant Turbine, Safety and Reliability:

Methodology and Applications - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference,

ESREL 2015, Zürich, Switzerland, 7th – 10th, September 2015, pp. 2339-2347.

315. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, Ensemble Clustering for Fault Diagnosis in

Industrial Plants, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 43, pp. 1225-1230, International Conference

on Chemical & Process Engineering 12 (ICheaP12), Milano, Italy, 19th – 22nd May 2015. DOI:

10.3303/CET1543205.

316. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, Supporting Maintenance Decision with Empirical

Models Based on Fleet-Wide Data, The 49th ESReDA Seminar on: Innovation through Human

Factors in Risk Assessment and Maintenance, Brussels, Belgium, 29th -30th October, 2015.

317. U. Sahlin, Di Maio F., Vagnoli M., Zio E., “Evaluating the impact of climate change on the

risk assessment of nuclear power plants”, European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015

(ESREL 2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

318. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A COMPacted Object Sample Extraction (COMPOSE)-

based Method for Fault Diagnostics in Evolving Environment, International Conference on

Reliability Systems Engineering & 2015 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference

(ICRSE & PHM 2015), Beijing, China, 2015,10

319. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A Method for On-line Evaluating the Accuracy of a

Particle Filter-based Prognostic Approach, 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference –

ESREL 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

320. M.X. Sun, Y.F. Li, E. Zio A Dynamic Programming Approach for the Efficient

Reliability Evaluation of Multi-State Series-Parallel System. MMR 2015, 1-4, Jun, 2015 , Tokyo,

Japan 1-8.

321. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li E. Zio A Computation Framework for Reliability Assessment of Complex

Systems under Multiple Dependent Competing Degradations. MMR 2015, 1-4, Jun, 2015, Tokyo,

Japan, 1-8

322. J. Liu, E. Zio, Adaptive Support Vector Regression for Long-Term Prediction under Non

stationary Environments: Prognostics of Components in Nuclear Power Plants International

Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2015),

21-24, Aug, 2015, Beijing, China 1-13

323. E. Kuznetsova, E. Zio Development of a Case Study for Eco-Industrial Park Deployment

under Uncertainty, ESREL 2015, 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-6

324. Y.F. Li, E. Zio An Ordinal Optimization Approach to the Solution of the Redundancy

Allocation for Multi-State Series-Parallel Systems. ESREL 2015 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich,

Switzerland 1-6

325. M.X. Sun, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. A Novel Genetic Algorithm Developed on a Reduced Search

Space for Optimal Redundancy Allocation in Multi-State Series-Parallel Systems. ESREL 2015 , 7-

10, Sep, 2017, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-6

326. P. Turati, N. Pedroni, E.Zio An entropy-driven method for exploring extreme and

unexpected accident scenarios in the risk assessment of dynamic engineered systems ESREL

2015 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-8

327. F.Han, I.Prodan, E.Zio, A Framework of Model Predictive Control for the Safety Analysis of

an Electric Power Microgrid ESREL 2015 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-12

328. E. Ferrario, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, F. Lopez-Caballero Application of metamodel-based

techniques for the efficient seismic analysis of structural systems ESREL 2015 7-10, Sep, 2016,

Zurich, Switzerland, 1-8

329. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, Estimating the small failure probability of a nuclear passive safety system

by means of an efficient Adaptive Metamodel-Based Subset Importance Sampling method , ESREL


330. Fan M, Zeng Z, Kang R and Zio E. Reliability modeling of a spool valve considering the

dependencies among failure mechanisms and epistemic uncertainty. Proceedings of Annual

European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2015), Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

331. Figliuzzi, V., Cadini, F., Zio, E., Palazzo, M., Sequencial Monte Carlo method to assess the

availability of power station layouts with generator circuit-breakers. Proceedings of Annual


332. Sedano, B., Astigarraga, D., Baraldi, P., Rigamonti, M., and Zio, E., Assessment of the

improvement achieved in RAMS by a FEV embedding a powertrain PHMS. Proceedings of Annual


333. Wang, Y., Zio, E., Wu, B. and Zhang, D., An inference exchange and decision fusing model

for separated surveillance units in safety-critical infrastructure. Proceedings of Annual European

Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2015), Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

334. Cadini, F., Azzolin, A., Zio, E., Cascading failure behavior in randomly generated power

transmission networks. Proceedings of Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference

(ESREL2015), Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

335. Prodan, I., Stoican, F. and Zio, E., On a fault tolerant strategy for efficient energy management

in microgrid systems. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive

Control, September 17-20, 2015. Seville, Spain.

F. National journals (2)

1. M.Delfanti, M.Marseguerra, M.S.Pasquadibisceglie, M.Pozzi, E.Zio, "Affidabilità E Diponibilità

Di Impianti Media/Bassa Tensione", Elettrificazione - Rivista Generale di Elettrotecnica e di

Elettronica, Numero 12, Dicembre 2004, Anno 54°, pp. 18-26.


Systems”, Eksploatacja I Niezawodnosc (Maintenance and Reliability), Polish Maintenance Society,

2006, N. 2 (30), pp. 33-36.

G. Proceedings of conferences with national (italian) scientific committee (14)

1. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Affidabilita’ Dinamica con Metodo Monte Carlo e Reti Neurali", Atti

del Convegno Nazionale per la Valutazione e Gestione Del Rischio Negli Insediamenti Civili ed

Industriali, 6-8 Ottobre 1998, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

2. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "UNRELMC 1.0: Un Codice Monte Carlo per l’Analisi dell’Affidabilita’

Statica o Dinamica di Un Sistema", Atti del Convegno Nazionale per la Valutazione e Gestione Del

Rischio Negli Insediamenti Civili ed Industriali, 6-8 Ottobre 1998, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

3. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Soft Computing Techniques in Reliability Analysis”, Atti del V

Congresso Nazionale della SIMAI, Societa’ Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale, 5-9

Giugno 2000, Ischia, Italy, pp. 433 – 436 (Invited Presentation).

4. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Algoritmi Genetici e Monte Carlo: un Connubio Promettente per

l’Ottimizzazione di Progetto e Gestione Logistica d’Impianto”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale per la

Valutazione e Gestione Del Rischio Negli Insediamenti Civili ed Industriali, October 24-26, 2000,

Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

5. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Metodologie avanzate per la valutazione della diffusione

dei radionuclidi nei materiali cementizi”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale su La Sistemazione

definitiva dei rifiuti radioattivi, 11 Ottobre 2000, Milano, pp.65-84.

6. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, C. Modica, F. Parozzi, “Reti neurali per modellistica d’incidente”, Atti

del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali,

October 15-17, 2002, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

7. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, E. Patelli, F. Giacobbo, P. Risoluti “Simulazione Monte Carlo della

dispersione di contaminante da un deposito di rifuti radioattivi”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale

Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, October 15-17, 2002,


8. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Bianchi, “Un modello Fuzzy di simulazione per il trasporto di

sostanze pericolose su strada”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio

negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, October 15-17, 2002, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

9. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, “Impiego di Modelli Semplificati nelle Analisi di Transitori

Operazionali ed Incidentali: Stima dei Parametri Efficaci Mediante Algoritmi Genetici”, Atti del

Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali,

VGR 2004, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

10. E. Zio, A. Zoia, C. M. Rocco, “Automi Cellulari per la Valutazione dell’Affidabilita’ di Sistemi

a Rete”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili

e Industriali, VGR 2004, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

11. M. Caira, M. Carcassi, A. Carpignano, F. Castiglia, E. Zio, “Le Incertezze nell’Analisi di

Rischio”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti

Civili e Industriali, VGR 2004, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

12. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “A Posteriori Human Reliability Analysis of a Train Crash

Scenario by the Fuzzy CREAM”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio

negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, VGR 2006, October 17-19, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

13. C. Rocco, E. Zio, O. Bastidas, “Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist Hazard: A Security

Assessment based on Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation, XIII CLAIO Congreso

Latino-Iberoamericano de Investigación Operativa, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2006

14. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, N. Berteletti, A. Carpignano, F. Ganci, “Analisi delle Incertezze nella

Modellazione di un Impianto di distribuzione di Idrogeno per Autotrazione”, Atti del Convegno

Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, VGR 2008,


H. Lecture notes (1)

1. E. Zio, “Probability and its Applications to Risk, Reliability and Quality Control”, Lecture notes

for the Course MAE 174 of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the

University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, Academic Publishing, 2003.

I. Technical Reports (13)

1. E. Zio, “ A Biased Non-Linear Connection Model in Monte Carlo Reliability Analysis of Complex

Systems”, CESNEF-FRN-92.01, Politecnico di Milano, Centro Studi Nucleari Enrico Fermi, 1992.

2. E. Zio, “ An Integrated Dynamic Model in a Monte Carlo Event Simulation Approach for PRA

Analysis of Dynamic Systems: the Fluid Container Case”, CESNEF-FRN-92.02, Politecnico di

Milano, Centro Studi Nucleari Enrico Fermi, 1992.

3. G. Apostolakis, D. Okrent, E. Zio, “ The Use of Expert Judgment in Performance Assessments of

High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories”, NRC-04-93-093, 1994.

4. E. Zio, "Monte Carlo Methods in Dynamic Reliability Analysis", Monte Carlo Simulation

Technical Committee of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), Technical

Report, 1996, MCS-TC97/001, pp. 14-17.

5. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and P. Baraldi, Fuzzy Approach to the Identification of Transients in the

Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme Group

Meeting”, 8-13 September, 2002, Stroefjell Resort Hotel, Gol Norway, HPR-358, Vol. 2.

6. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and D. Roverso, “A Filter Approach to the Selection of Features for

Classification of Nuclear Transients”, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme Group

Meeting”, 16-21 October, 2005, Lillehammer, Norway, HPR-365, Vol. 1, C2.5.

7. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and D. Mercurio, “Fuzzy Clustering Classification of Nuclear Transients with

a Possibilistic Filter for Unknown Conditions”, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme

Group Meeting”, 16-21 October, 2005, Lillehammer, Norway, HPR-365, Vol. 1, C2.6.

8. E. Zio and G. Gola, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Pattern Classification in diagnostic

Applications”,, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting”, 16-21 October,

2005, Lillehammer, Norway, HPR-365, Vol. 1, C2.7.

9. E. Zio, “Risk and Risk Analysis: Concepts and Techniques”, Proceedings of the Pre-Conference

Workshop of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk Management and Safety, November 30, 2005,

Hong Kong, pp. 1- 35.

10. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, P. Fantoni, D. Roverso, “Clustering Techniques and Their Application to the

Classification of Transients in Nuclear Power Plants”, Halden Work Report, HWR-827, OECD

Halden Reactor Project, 2007.

11. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, D. Roverso, “Feature Selection for Nuclear Transient Diagnostics”, Halden

Work Report, HWR-828, OECD Halden Reactor Project, 2007.

12. G. Gola, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, D. Roverso, “Signal Grouping for Sensor Validation: A Multi-

Objective Genetic Algorithm Approach”, Halden Work Report, HWR-852, OECD Halden Reactor

Project, 2007.

13. G. Gola, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, D. Roverso and M. hoffmann “Reconstructing Signals for Sensor

Validation by a GA-optimized Ensemble of PCA Models”, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden

Programme Group Meeting”, 18-23 May, 2008, Loen, Norway, HWR-894, Vol. 1, C3.8.

COMPLETE LIST OF PUBBLICATIONS (725)

1. E. Zio, “ A Biased Non-Linear Connection Model in Monte Carlo Reliability Analysis of Complex

Systems”, CESNEF-FRN-92.01, Politecnico di Milano, Centro Studi Nucleari Enrico Fermi, 1992.

2. E. Zio, “ An Integrated Dynamic Model in a Monte Carlo Event Simulation Approach for PRA

Analysis of Dynamic Systems: the Fluid Container Case”, CESNEF-FRN-92.02, Politecnico di

Milano, Centro Studi Nucleari Enrico Fermi, 1992.

3. M. Marseguerra, S. Minoggio, A. Rossi, E. Zio: "Neural Networks Prediction and Fault

Diagnosis Applied to Stationary and Non Stationary Arma Modeled Time Series" , Progress in

Nuclear Energy, vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 25 -- 36, 1992.

4. M. Marseguerra, S. Minoggio, A. Rossi, E. Zio: "Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Multiple

Signals in Nuclear Technology" , Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 297 - 304, 1992.

5. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Nonlinear Monte Carlo Reliability Analysis with Biasing Towards Top

Event", Reliability Engineering and System Safety 40, pp. 31 -- 42, 1993.

6. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Approaching Dynamic Reliability by Monte Carlo Simulation",

Reliability and Safety Assessment of Dynamic Process Systems, NATO ASI Series F, vol. 120,

Berlin, Germany, 1993.

7. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Dynamic PSA by Monte Carlo Event Simulation Analysis" ,

Proceedings of PSA '93 published by ANS, Clearwater Beach, Florida, pp. 615 -- 624, 1993.

8. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: " Toward Dynamic PSA via Monte Carlo Methods" , Proceedings of

ESREL '93 published by Elsevier Science, Munich, Germany, pp. 415 -- 427, 1993.

9. E. Zio, C. Lombardi, M. Marseguerra, M. Ricotti: " Search for Correlations by Artificial Neural

Network Approach: two-phase thermal hydraulic study case", presentato in occasione de "30-th

meeting of the European Two-Phase Flow Group", Hannover, 7-10 giugno 1993.

10. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Identification of a Line Break by a Neural Network Methodology" ,

Annals of Nuclear Energy, vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 249 - 258, 1994.

11. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Fault Diagnosis via Neural Networks: The Boltzmann Machine",

Nuclear Science and Engineering, vol. 117, pp. 194 - 200, 1994.

12. M. Marseguerra, M. Nutini, E. Zio: "Approximate Physical Modelling in Dynamic PSA Using

Artificial Neural Networks", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 45, pp. 47 - 56, 1994.

13. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Improving the Efficiency of Monte Carlo Methods in PSA by Using

Neural Networks", Proceedings of PSAM II Conference in San Diego, March 1994.

14. C. Lombardi, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Thermalhydraulic Correlations by Neural network",

Proceedings of the Tenth International Heat Transfer Conference, Brighton, pp. 391 - 397, August

1994.

15. G. Apostolakis, D. Okrent, E. Zio, “ The Use of Expert Judgment in Performance Assessments

of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories”, NRC-04-93-093, 1994.

16. E. Zio: "Biasing the Transition Probabilities in Direct Monte Carlo", Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, vol. 47, pp.59-63, 1995.

17. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "The Cell-To-Boundary Method in Monte Carlo-Based Dynamic PSA",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 48, pp.199-204, 1995.

18. M. Marseguerra, M. Ricotti, E. Zio, Approaching System Evolution in Dynamic PSA by Neural

Networks", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 49, pp. 91-99, 1995.

19. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis, D. Okrent, “Towards the Quantitative Treatment of Model Uncertainty

in the Performance Assessment of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories, Proceedings of

WM’95 Conference, Arizona, USA, February 1995.

20. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis, D. Okrent, “ On the Use of Expert Opinion in the Assessment of Model

Uncertainty in Groundwater Flow”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on

Radioactive Waste Manangement and Environmental Remediation, Berlin, Germany, September

1995, pp. 739-742

21. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis, "A Norm-Based Approach to the Quantification of Model Uncertainty",

Proceedings of the Seventh International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference,

Las Vegas, April 1996, pp. 252-254.

22. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio: "Monte Carlo Approach to PSA for Dynamic Process Systems",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Special Issue on Reliability and Safety Analysis of

Dynamic Process Systems, Vol. 52, pp. 227-241, 1996.

23. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis: "Two Approaches to Model Uncertainty Quantification: A Case Study",

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management, PSAM III, Crete, Greece, June 1996, pp. 631-636.

24. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis: "The Assessment of Experts'Weights via the Analytic Hierarchy Process:

An Application", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management, PSAM III, Crete, Greece, June 1996, pp. 864-869.

25. E. Zio, "On the Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in the Aggregation of Expert Judgments",


26. M. Marseguerra, M. Ricotti, E. Zio, "Neural Network-Based Fault Detections in A PWR

Pressurizer", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 124, 1996, pp. 339-348.

27. E. Zio: "Quantitative Analysis of Model Uncertainty: Estimating the Credibility of Alternate

Model Structures", Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment, PSA'96, Park City, Utah, USA, September 1996, pp. 1219-1226.

28. E. Zio: "Approaching the Inverse Problem of Parameter Estimation in Groundwater Models by

Means of Artificial Neural Networks", Progress in Nuclear Energy, 1997, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 303-

315.

29. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis:"Two Methods for the Structured Assessment of Model Uncertainty by

Experts in Performance Assessment of Radioactive Waste Repositories", Reliability Engineering


30. E. Zio, "Monte Carlo Methods in Dynamic Reliability Analysis", Monte Carlo Simulation

Technical Committee of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), Technical

Report, 1996, MCS-TC97/001, pp. 14-17.

31. E. Zio, G. Apostolakis: "Accounting for Expert-to-Expert Variability:A Potential Source of Bias

in Performance Assessments of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories", Annals of Nuclear

Energy, Vol. 24, No. 10, 1997. pp. 752-762.

32. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Modeling the Transport of Contaminants in Groundwater as a

Branching Stochastic Process, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 24, No. 8, 1997, pp. 625-644.

33. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani and E. Zio, "Modeling the Operating Environment Effects on

Physically-Connected Redundant Components", in Advances in Safety & Reliability, Proceedings

of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon,


34. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Parameter Estimates for Monte Carlo Simulation of Contaminant

Transport in Groundwater ", in Advances in Safety & Reliability, Proceedings of the ESREL'97

International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2115-

2122.

35. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Modeling Stochastically Dependent Failures", in Advances in

Safety & Reliability, Proceedings of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, 17-20 June, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2173-2180.

36. M. E. Ricotti and E. Zio, "Sensitvity of Passive System Behaviour", in Advances in Safety &

Reliability, Proceedings of the ESREL'97 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 17-20

June, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2311-2320.

37. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Non-equilibrium in Groundwater Transport of Contaminants",

Proceedings of IMORN27, Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise, 18-20 November, 1997, Valencia,

Spain, pp. 43 – 52, 1999.

38. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Transport of Contaminants in a Bidimensional Stochastic

Medium", Proceedings of IMORN27, Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise, 18-20 November, 1997,

Valencia, Spain, pp. 53 – 62, 1999.

39. R. Accorsi, M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani and E. Zio, "Neural Control of Non-modelled Plants:

Application to a PWR ", Proceedings of IMORN27, Informal Meeting on Reactor Noise, 18-20

November, 1997, Valencia, Spain, pp. 275 – 286, 1999.

40. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, "Application of Sensitivity Analysis to Environmental Management",

Proceedings of SAMO98, Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model

Output, April, 19-22, 1998, Venice, Italy, pp. 333 - 336.

41. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Time-Delayed Propagating Failures: A Stochastic Model",

Proceedings of the ESREL'98 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998,

Trondheim, Norway, pp. 625-632.

42. S. Pasquet, E. Chatelet, E. Padovani and E. Zio, "Use of Neural Networks To Evaluate The

RAMS' Parameters of Dynamic Systems", Proceedings of the ESREL'98 International Conference

on Safety and Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 723-728.

43. M. Marseguerra, E Padovani, E. Zio, S. Tarantola and A. Saltelli, "Sensitivity analysis of a

Nonlinear Reliability Model", Proceedings of the ESREL'98 International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 1395-1401.

44. E. Zio, "Procedure Guidelines For Monte Carlo Simulation: An Uncertain Fate", Invited

presentation at the ESREL'98 International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 16-19 June, 1998,

Trondheim, Norway.

45. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Detectability of A Gamma Source Within Different Iron Scrap Loads:

Theoretical Evaluation", Invited paper at the International Conference on "The Radioactivity in the

Metal Scraps Recycling Industry: Consequences and Solutions", June 1998, Brescia, Italy.

46. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Contaminant Transport in Bidimensional Porous Media Via

Biased Monte Carlo Simulation", Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 25, No. 16, 1998, pp. 1301-1316.

47. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, J. Devooght, P.E. Labeau, "A Concept Paper on Dynamic Reliability

via Monte Carlo Simulation", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 47, No. 2-5, 1998,

pp. 371-383.

48. P. E. Labeau, E. Zio, "The Cell-to-Boundary Method in the Frame of Memorization-Based

Monte Carlo Algorithms. A New Computational Improvement in Dynamic Reliability", Mathematics

and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 47, 1998, No. 2-5, 329-347.

49. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Monte Carlo Simulation of the Effects of Human Intrusion on

Groundwater Contaminant Transport", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 47, No. 2-

5, 1998, 361-369.

50. M. Marseguerra, E Padovani, E. Zio, "Differential and Variance-Based Sensitivity analysis of

the Reliability of a Protection System", Proceedings of the PSAM 4 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, 13-18 September, 1998, New York City, USA,

pp. 2635-2640.

51. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Affidabilita’ Dinamica con Metodo Monte Carlo e Reti Neurali", Atti

del Convegno Nazionale per la Valutazione e Gestione Del Rischio Negli Insediamenti Civili ed

Industriali, 6-8 Ottobre 1998, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

52. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "UNRELMC 1.0: Un Codice Monte Carlo per l’Analisi

dell’Affidabilita’ Statica o Dinamica di Un Sistema", Atti del Convegno Nazionale per la

Valutazione e Gestione Del Rischio Negli Insediamenti Civili ed Industriali, 6-8 Ottobre 1998, Pisa,

Italy, CD-ROM.

53. E. Zio, “Most Likely” Directions in the Field of Rare Events Simulation, Invited Expert

Statement in Special issue on rare event simulation, International Journal of Electronics and

Communications, 52, No. 3, 1998, pp. 118 – 119.

54. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, "The Impact of the Operating Environment on the Design

of Redundant Configurations", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 63, 1999, pp. 155 - 160.

55. M.E. Ricotti and E. Zio, "Neural Network Approach to Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis",

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 64, 1999, pp. 59 - 71.

56. R. Accorsi, G. Apostolakis and E. Zio "Prioritizing Stakeholder Concerns in Environmental

Risk Management" Journal of Risk Research, 2, 1999, pp. 11 – 29.

57. R. Accorsi, E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, “Developing Utility Functions for Environmental

Decision Making”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1999, pp. 387 – 411.

58. R. Masini, E. Padovani, M.E. Ricotti, E. Zio “Dynamic Simulation of a Steam Generator by

Neural Networks”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 187, 1999, pp. 197 – 213.

59. A. Ferrara, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “A Comparison Between the Advection-Dispersion and the

Kolmogorov-Dmitriev Model for Groundwater Contaminant Transport”, Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 26, 1999, pp. 1083 – 1096.

60. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, “Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis Within a Methodology For

Evaluating Environmental Restoration Technologies”, Computer Physics Communications, 117,

1999, pp. 1 –10.

61. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, "Weight Updating In Forced Monte Carlo Approach To Dynamic

Psa", Monte Carlo Methods, 4, N 4, 1998, pp. 359-374.

62. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, " Monte Carlo Approach To the Detectability of a Gamma Source

Within a Scrap-Iron Truckload", Nuclear Technology, 126, N 3, 1999, pp. 279-288.

63. R. Accorsi, M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, “Neural Estimation of First-Order Sensitivity

Coefficients: Application to the Control of a Simulated Pressurized Water Reactor”, Nuclear

Science and Engineering, 132, n 3, 1999, pp. 326 – 336.

64. E. Zio, “Decision Making in Environmental Management: A Game Theoretic Approach”,

Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Restoration, 21, 1999, pp. 211-233.

65. P. Wang, T. Aldemir and E. Zio, “An Online Tool For Risk-Based Accident Management”,

Proceedings of ESREL'99 European Safety and Reliability Conference 13-17 September, 1999,

TUM Munich-Garching, Germany, pp. 439-444.

66. E. Borgonovo, M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Safety Analysis with Aging,

Maintenance and Technological Obsolescence”, Proceedings of ESREL'99 European Safety and

Reliability Conference 13-17 September, 1999, TUM Munich-Garching, Germany, pp. 907-911.

67. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Reliability Assessment of Dynamic Control-Protection Systems: A

Framework for Monte Carlo Simulation with Biasing”, Invited paper at M&C’99, Mathematics and

Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis in Nuclear Applications, Madrid, Spain,

1999, Proceedings Eds.J.M. Aragones, C. Ahnert and O. Cabellos, pp. 1339-1348.

68. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “A Stochastic Model for Underground Transport of

Radionuclides”, In “The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics: Nuclear

Reaction Data and Nuclear Reactors: Physics, Design and Safety”, P. Oblozinsky and A. Gandini

Eds., World Scientific Publisher, 1999, pp. 512-535.

69. M. Gadioli, M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Fast Integration by Neural Nets in DSD: Probabilistic

State Estimation”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting & Embedded

Topical Meetings, November 14-18, 1999, Long Beach, CA, pp. 151 – 154.

70. E. Borgonovo, M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “A Monte Carlo Methodological Approach to Plant

Availability Modeling with Maintenance, Aging and Obsolescence”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 67, 2000, pp. 59 - 71.

71. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “System Design Optimization by Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings

of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2000, January 24-27, Los

Angeles, CA, pp. 222 – 227.

72. M. Cantoni, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation for

Optimal Plant Design", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 68, 2000, pp. 29 - 38.

73. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Optimizing Maintenance and Repair Policies via a Combination of

Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation ", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 68,

2000, pp. 69 - 83.

74. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Biasing in Reliability Calculations with Deterministic

Repair Times”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 27, 2000, pp. 639-648.

75. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Evaluation of Corrective and Preventive

Maintenance Strategies”, Proceedings of ESREL 2000 (European Safety and Reliability), SaRS

(Safety and Reliability Society) and SRA-Europe (Society of Risk analysis) annual conference, May

14-17, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 269-274.

76. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Finding Optimal Repair And Maintenance Strategies By A

Combined Genetic Algorithm Monte Carlo Approach”, Proceedings of ESREL 2000 (European

Safety and Reliability), SaRS (Safety and Reliability Society) and SRA-Europe (Society of Risk

analysis) annual conference, May 14-17, 2000, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pp. 261-267.

77. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Soft Computing Techniques in Reliability Analysis”, Atti del V

Congresso Nazionale della SIMAI, Societa’ Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale, 5-9

Giugno 2000, Ischia, Italy, pp. 433 – 436 (Invited Presentation).

78. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “System Unavailability Calculations in Biased Monte Carlo

Simulation: a Possible Pitfall”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 27, 2000, pp. 1589 - 1605.

79. F. Cadini, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Unavailability of Systems with Time–Dependent Failure

Rates and Stress-Dependent Aging”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Monte Carlo

Simulation, MCS 2000, June 18 –21, 2000, Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco, pp. 327-334.

80. P. E. Labeau, E. Zio, “The Mathematics of Component-based and System-based Monte Carlo

Sampling in Realistic System Engineering”, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Mathematical Methods in Reliability, MMR’ 2000, July 4 – 7, 2000, Bordeaux, France, pp. 667 –

670.

81. E. Zio, “A Formal Structure for the Treatement of Site-Representation Uncertainty in

Performance Assessments of Nuclear Waste Repositories”, Radioactive Waste Management and

Env. Res., 22, 2000, pp. 135 – 161.

82. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Use of genetic algorithms for on line reactivity

forecasting”, Proceedings of IMORN28, International Meeting on Reactor Noise, 11-13 October,

2000, Athens, Greece, pp. 129-135.

83. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Determination of parameters in groundwater

contaminant transport models by means of genetic algorithms”, Proceedings of IMORN28,

International Meeting on Reactor Noise, 11-13 October, 2000, Athens, Greece, pp. 137-145.

84. M. Marseguerra, R.Masini, E.Zio, “Recurrent neural networks for dynamic system prediction”,

Proceedings of IMORN28, International Meeting on Reactor Noise, 11-13 October, 2000, Athens,

Greece, pp. 147-156.

85. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Algoritmi Genetici e Monte Carlo: un Connubio Promettente per

l’Ottimizzazione di Progetto e Gestione Logistica d’Impianto”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale per la

Valutazione e Gestione Del Rischio Negli Insediamenti Civili ed Industriali, October 24-26, 2000,


86. E. Chatelet, E. Zio, S. Pasquet, “The Use of Neural Networks in the Reliability Analysis of

Dynamic Systems: An Overview”, Proceedings of Workshop on Fifth International Workshop on

Dynamic Reliability: Future Directions, September 1998, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A., pp. 123-

143.

87. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "A Comparison of DSD with a Neural Net Model to State/Parameter

Estimation Directly by Neural Nets ", Proceedings of the PSAM 5 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Japan 2000, pp. 13-18.

88. P. Giuggioli Busacca, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, "Multiobjective Optimization by Genetic

Algorithms: Application to Safety Systems", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 72, 2001,

pp. 59 - 74.

89. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Looking at Monte Carlo simulation for describing nonlinear sorption

in groundwater contaminant transport”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 55 , 2001, pp.

167-176.

90. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, “Effects of model variability on the safeguard analysis of

gamma-contaminated truck loads”, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 55, 2001, pp.159-

166

91. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Metodologie avanzate per la valutazione della diffusione

dei radionuclidi nei materiali cementizi”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale su La Sistemazione

definitiva dei rifiuti radioattivi, 11 Ottobre 2000, Milano, pp.65-84.


I. A stochastic nonlinear model and parameter identification”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 28, May

2001, pp.777-803.

93. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Maintenance logistics in presence of components’ degradation states

and aging: optimization via genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulation”, Konbin 2001 Safety

and Reliability International Conference”, 22-25 Maggio 2001, Szcrzyrk, Poland, pp. 91-100

(Invited Presentation).

94. M. Marseguerra, R. Masini, E. Zio, G. Cojazzi “Using Neutral Networks as nonlinear model

interpolators in variance decomposition-based sensitivity analysis” Samo 2001 Third International

Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, June 18-20 2001, Madrid-Spain, pp. 23-26.

95. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio “Do genetic algorithms parameter optimization

strategies convey any information on the importance of the parameters?” Samo 2001 Third

International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, June 18-20 2001, Madrid-Spain,

pp. 183-187.

96. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Patelli, E. Zio “Monte Carlo Simulation of the effects of

Different Engineered Barriers on the Diffusion of Radioactive Contaminat.” Third IMACS Seminar

on Monte Carlo Methods, September 10-14, 2001, Salzburg, Austria, p.39, (abstract only).

97. M. Marseguerra, R. Masini, E. Zio and G. Cojazzi “Neural Modeling for Sensitivity Analysis in

Reliability and Availability Calculations”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and


98. J. Barata, C. Guedes Soares, E. Zio “Modeling Components’ Degradation Processes by Monte

Carlo Simulation”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference,


99. S. Eisinger, E. Zio “Genetic Algorithms and Discrete Event Simulation for Optimization of

System Performance: a case study of Airport Management Optimization”, Proceedings of ESREL

2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 16-20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 887-

894.

100. P. Labeau, E. Zio “Biasing Schemes in Component-based and System-based Monte Carlo

Algorithms in System Engineering”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability


101. P. Guggioli Busacca, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “Application of Genetic Algorithms to the

Multiobjective Optimization of the Inspection Times of a Safety System of a Pressurized Water

Reactor”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 16-

20, 2001, Torino, Italy, pp. 1053-1060.

102. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio “Use of Genetic Algorithms for the Optimization of

Spare Parts Inventory”, Proceedings of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability Conference,


103. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio “Principles of Monte Carlo Simulatuion for Application to Reliability

and Availability Analysis”, Tutorials Notes of ESREL 2001 European Safety and Reliability


104. E. Zio, M. Demichela, N. Piccinini, Eds. “Safety and Reliability, Proceedings of ESREL 2001,



105. E. Zio, M. Demichela, N. Piccinini, Eds. “Safety and Reliability,, Tutorials Notes of ESREL

2001, an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, September 16-20, 2001, Torino,

Italy.”, Politecnico di Torino, 2001.

106. M. Marseguerra, E. Patelli, E. Zio, “Groundwater contaminant transport in presence of

colloids II: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis on literature case studies”, Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 28, 2001, pp.1799-1807.

107. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Genetic Algorithms for Estimating Effective Parameters in a

Lumped Reactor Model for Reactivity Predictions”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 139,

September 2001, pp.96-104.

108. F. Giacobbo, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Solving the inverse problem of parameter estimation by

genetic algorithms: the case of a groundwater contaminant transport model.” Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 29, 8, May 2002, pp.967-981.

109. E. Zio, Guest Editorial Risk Decision and Policy, vol. 7, pp. 1-5, 2002.

110. M. Ricotti, E. Zio, F. D’Auria, G. Caruso, “Reliability Methods for Passive Systems (RMPS) –

Strategy and Results”, NEA CSNI/WGRISK Workshop on Passive System Reliability, Cadarache,

France, 4-6 March, 2002.

111. M. Marseguerra, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for the

Optimization of System Performance in Presence of Parameters Uncertainty”, Proceedings of

ESREL'02, LAMBDA-MU 13 an International Conference on Safety and Reliability, 19-21, March,

2002, Lyon, France, pp. 433-438.

112. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Genetic Algorithms: Theory and Applications in the Safety

Domain”, In “The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics: Nuclear Reaction

Data and Nuclear Reactors”, N. Paver, M. Herman and A. Gandini Eds., World Scientific Publisher,

2001, pp. 655-695.

113. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Cadini, “Biased Monte Carlo unavailability analysis for systems

with time-dependent failure rates”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 76, 2002, pp. 11-17.

114. S. Eisinger, E. Zio “Optimization of Airport Logistics by Genetic Algorithms”, Risk Decision

and Policy, vol. 7, 2002, pp. 7-23.

115. J. Barata, C.G. Soares, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Simulation modelling of repairable multi-

component deteriorating systems for 'on condition' maintenance optimisation”, Reliability



Dynamics: Parameter Identification via Genetic Algorithms”, Proceedings of SMORN VIII, A

symposium on Nuclear Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics, Goteborg, Sweden, 27-31 May, 2002,

CD-ROM.

117. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, A. Oldrini, “Early Fault Detection by Fuzzy Logic”,

Proceedings of SMORN VIII, A symposium on Nuclear Reactor Surveillance and Diagnostics,

Goteborg, Sweden, 27-31 May, 2002, CD-ROM.

118. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. C. Giacobbo, M. Mariani, “Contaminant Transport in

Experimental Columns: Monte Carlo and Genetic Algorithm Approach to Parameters Estimation”,

Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on New Trends in Water and Environmental

Engineering for Safety and Life: Eco-compatible Solutions for Aquatic Environments, Capri, Italy,

June 24-28, 2002.

119. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Bosi, “Direct Monte Carlo Availability Assessment Of A Nuclear

Safety System With Time-Dependent Failure Characteristics”, Proceedings of MMR 2002, Third

International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, 17-20 June, 2002, Trondheim,

Norway, pp. 429-432. (Invited Presentation)

120. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Modelling spare parts dynamics by multi-state Monte

Carlo simulation”, Proceedings of MMR 2002, Third International Conference on Mathematical

Methods in Reliability, 17-20 June, 2002, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 433-436. (Invited

Presentation)

121. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, C. Modica, F. Parozzi, “Neural Modelling Of Severe Accidents

Evolution In Dynamic Psa Of Level II”, Proceedings of PSAM 6 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management”, 23-28 June, 2002, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA,

pp. 871-877.

122. P.E. Labeau, E. Zio, “Procedures of Monte Carlo transport simulation for applications in

system engineering”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,77 , 2002, pp 217-228.

123. E. Zio, Guest Editorial Reliability Engineering and System Safety,77 , pp 211-215, 2002.

124. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Condition-based maintenance optimization by means

of genetic algorithms and Monte Carlo simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,77 ,

2002, pp 151-165.

125. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and P. Baraldi, Fuzzy Approach to the Identification of Transients in

the Steam Generator of a Nuclear Power Plant, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme

Group Meeting”, 8-13 September, 2002, Stroefjell Resort Hotel, Gol Norway, HPR-358, Vol. 2.

126. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, C. Modica, F. Parozzi, “Reti neurali per modellistica d’incidente”,

Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e

Industriali, October 15-17, 2002, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

127. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, E. Patelli, F. Giacobbo, P. Risoluti “Simulazione Monte Carlo della

dispersione di contaminante da un deposito di rifuti radioattivi”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale

Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, October 15-17, 2002,


128. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Bianchi, “Un modello Fuzzy di simulazione per il trasporto di

sostanze pericolose su strada”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio

negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, October 15-17, 2002, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

129. M. Marseguerra and E. Zio, “Basics of the Monte Carlo Method with Application to System

Reliability”, LiLoLe-Verlag GmbH (Publ. Co. Ltd.), 2002.

130. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, E. Patelli, F. Giacobbo, P. Risoluti, G. Ventura, G. Mingrone,

“Modeling the effects of the engineered barriers of a radioactive waste repository by Monte Carlo

simulation” Annals of Nuclear Energy, 30, 4, Mar 2003, pp.473-496.

131. M. Marseguerra, R. Masini, E. Zio, G. Cojazzi, “Variance decomposition-based sensitivity

analysis via neural networks”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,79 , 2003, pp 229-238

132. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, E. Patelli, F. Giacobbo, G. Ventura, G. Mingrone, “Monte Carlo

simulation of contaminant release from a radioactive waste deposit”, Mathematics and Computers

in Simulation, 62, 2003, pp 421–430.

133. E. Zio, “Probability and its Applications to Risk, Reliability and Quality Control”, Lecture

notes for the Course MAE 174 of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the

University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, Academic Publishing, 2003.

134. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Model-free fuzzy tracking control of a nuclear reactor”, Annals of

Nuclear Energy, 30, 9, June 2003, pp 953-981.

135. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Cipollone, “Desigining Optimal Degradation Tests via Multi-

Objective Genetic Algorithms”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety,79 , 2003, pp 87-94.

136. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Ammaturo, V. Fontana, “Predicting Reliability via Neural

Networks”, Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS 2003,

27-30 January 2003, Tampa Florida, pp. 196-201.

137. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Model parameters estimation and sensitivity by

genetic algorithms”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 30, 14, September 2003, pp 1437-1456.

138. D. C. Ionescu, E. Zio, L. A.C. Constantinescu, “Availability Analysis of a Safety System of a

Nuclear Reactor”, Konbin 2003 Safety and Reliability International Conference, 27-30 May 2003,

Gdynia, Poland, pp. 225-233.

139. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, A. Oldrini, “Fuzzy Logic for Signal Prediction in Nuclear

Systems”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 43, No. 1-4, 2003, pp. 373-380.


Dynamics: Parameter Identification via Genetic Algorithms”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 43, No.

1-4, 2003, pp. 365-72.

141. G. Bucciarelli, D. Franciotti, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Muzi, M. Ventulini, “Monte Carlo

Reliability Analysis of a Safety Plant of the Italian Gran Sasso High Energy Physics National

Laboratory by means of the MARA Code”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability

Conference ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 297-304.

142. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Fuzzy Logic: a Modelling Tool for Transient

Diagnostics”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003,


143. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Sensitivity Analysis in Monte Carlo Simulation for Dependability

Analysis”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003,


144. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Bianchi, “A Fuzzy Model for the Estimate of the Accident Rate in

Road Transport of Hazardous Materials”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability

Conference ESREL 2003, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 1085 - 1092.

145. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Measuring the Reliability Importance of Components in Multi-State

Systems”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2003, Maastricht,

The Netherlands, 16-18 June 2003, pp. 1753 - 1760.

146. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Monte Carlo simulation analysis of the effects of different system

performance levels on the importance of multi-state components”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 82, 2003, pp 63-73.

147. T. Aldemir, G. Torri, M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, J.A. Borkowski, “Using point reactor models

and genetic algorithms for on-line global xenon estimation in nuclear reactors”, Nuclear

Technology, 143, No. 3, 2003, pp. 247-255.

148. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, “Monte Carlo approach to the solution of the

coupled flow and transport problem in unsaturated concrete barrierst”, Proceedings of MCM-

2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.45

(abstract only).

149. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, “A nuclear measurement

technique of water penetration in concrete barriers.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS

Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.45-46 (abstract only).

150. D. C. Ionescu, E. Zio, A. C. Constantinescu, P. Ulmeanu, “A Monte Carlo simulation

approach to the dependability analysis of complex system using the Petri nets formalism”,

Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19

September 2003, pp.47-48 (abstract only).

151. S. Eisinger, E. Zio, “Use of Monte Carlo simulation for the optimization of airport

operation.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino,

15-19 September 2003, pp.48 (abstract only).

152. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini “Monte Carlo estimation of first order sensitivies in

system reliability and avalaibility analysis.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on

Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.49 (abstract only).

153. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Bosi “A new biasing technique in direct Monte Carlo reliability

and avalaibility assessment.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo

Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.50 (abstract only).

154. E. Zio, L. Podofillini “A comparison of two Monte Carlo simulation approaches for the

estimation of importance measures in multi-state systems.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth

IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.50 (abstract only).

155. E. Zio, A. Cammi, A. Cioncolini “Optimal implementation of dagger sampling variance-

reducing techniques in Monte Carlo reliability analysis.”, Proceedings of MCM-2003: IVth

IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Berlino, 15-19 September 2003, pp.50-51 (abstract

only).

156. G.Levitin,L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Generalised importance measures for multi-state elements

based on performance level restrictions”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 82, 2003, pp.

287-298

157. E. Zio, L.Podofillini, H Svee “A risk based approach to determine type of ultrasonic

inspection and frequencies in railway applications”, Proceedings of WCRR-2003: The world

congress on railway research, Edinburgh, 28 September – 1 October 2003, pp.689-698 .

158. E. Zio, “A decision making framework for environmental management”, Risk Decision and

Policy, 8, 2003, pp. 25-49

159. L. Podofillini, E. Zio, “Importance Measures of Multi-State Components in Multi-State

Systems”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 10, 2003, pp. 289-310

160. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, A. Oldrini, E. Brega, “Fuzzy identification of transients in nuclear

power plants”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 255, 2003, pp. 285-294

161. E. Zio, M. Cantarella, A. Cammi, “The analytic hierarchy process as a systematic approach to

the identification of important parameters for the reliability assessment of passive systems”,

Nuclear Engineering and Design, 226, 2003, pp. 311-336

162. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Sensitivity analysis and fuzzy modeling for passive systems reliability

assessment”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31, 3, February 2004, pp 277-301.

163. E.Zio, Guest Editorial of the international journal Risk, Decision and Policy, vol. 8,pp.77-80,

2003

164. D.C. Ionescu, E. Zio, A. C. Costantinescu, “Embedding Monte Carlo simulation within the

stochastic Petri network formalism for the evaluation of the availability of a nuclear safety system”,

Risk Decision and Policy, 8, 2003, pp. 133-142

165 Zio, L.Podofillini, “A Monte Carlo Approach to the Estimation of Importance Measures of

Multi-State Components”, Proceedings of RAMS -2004: Annual Reliability and Maintainability,

Los Angeles, January 26 – 29, 2004, pp.129-134

166 M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte-Carlo Sampling & Simulation for Application to R&M”,

Proceedings of RAMS -2004: Annual Reliability and Maintainability, Los Angeles, January 26 –

29, 2004, pp.1-25 (Invited tutorial)

167. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “A multiobjective genetic algorithm approach to the

optimization of the technical specifications of a nuclear safety system” Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 84, 2004, pp 87-99

168. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Avogadri, “Model identification by neuro-fuzzy techniques:

predicting the water level in a steam generator of a pwr” Progress in Nuclear Energy, 44, No. 3,

2004, pp. 237-252.

169 E. Zio, L. Podofillini “A Second Order Differential Importance Measure for Reliability and

Risk Applications”, Proceedings of SAMO-2004: Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Modeling

Output, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 8 - 11 , 2004, pp.01-10

170 E. Zio, M. Marella, L. Podofillini “Availability Assessment of Multi-State System with

Operational Dependence”, ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM

VII, Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004, pp.914-919

171 S. Eisinger, E. Zio, “Embedding local search procedures into Genetic Algorithms for the

optimisation of industrial systems”, ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management PSAM VII, Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004, pp.170-178

172 L. Podofillini, E. Zio, J. Vatn “Modelling the Degrading Failure of a rail Section Under

Periodic Inspection”, ESREL 2004/ Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management PSAM VII,

Berlin, Germany, June 14-18, 2004, pp.2570-2575.

173. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, “Using Genetic Algorithms for Calibrating Simplified

Models of Nuclear Reactor Dynamics”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31, 3, 2004, pp 1219-1250.

174. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte Carlo estimation of the differential importance measure:

application to the protection system of a nuclear reactor”, Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, 86, 2004, pp. 11-24.

175. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Marcucci, “A soft-computing based classification procedure for the

identification of transients in the steam generator of a pressurized water reactor”, Annals of

Nuclear Energy, 31, 2004, pp 1429-1446.

176. E. Zio,L. Podofillini, G.Levitin, “Estimation of the importance measures of multi-state

elements by Monte Carlo simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 86, 2004, pp.

191-204.

177. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio,L. Podofillini, “Optimal Reliability/Availability of Uncertain Systems

via Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms”, IEEE Trans. On Reliability, 53, 2004, pp. 424-434.

178. E. Zio, M. Marella, L. Podofillini “A comparison of Different Importance Measures for

Multistate Systems”, MMR’04 Mathematical Methods in Reliability, June 21-25, 2004,CD-ROM.

179. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio,L. Podofillini, “Multiobjective Spare Part Allocation By Means Of

Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 87,

2005, pp. 325-335.

180. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “A Fuzzy Modeling Approach to the Identification of

Transients in Nuclear Components”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31, 2004, pp 2093-2112.

181. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, “Impiego di Modelli Semplificati nelle Analisi di

Transitori Operazionali ed Incidentali: Stima dei Parametri Efficaci Mediante Algoritmi Genetici”,

Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e

Industriali, VGR 2004, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

182. E. Zio, A. Zoia, C. M. Rocco, “Automi Cellulari per la Valutazione dell’Affidabilita’ di

Sistemi a Rete”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli

insediamenti Civili e Industriali, VGR 2004, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

183. M. Caira, M. Carcassi, A. Carpignano, F. Castiglia, E. Zio, “Le Incertezze nell’Analisi di

Rischio”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti

Civili e Industriali, VGR 2004, October 19-21, 2004, Pisa, Italy, CD-ROM.

184. T. Bedford and E. Zio, Guest Editorial Risk, Decision and Policy, vol. 9, pp.191-192, 2004.

185. M. Marseguerra, E. Padovani, E. Zio, F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, A Nuclear Measurement

Technique of Water Penetration in Concrete Barriers, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol.

10, N. 3-4, 2004, pp. 415-422.

186. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Bosi, System Availability and Reliability Analysis by Direct Monte

Carlo with Biasing, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol. 10, N. 3-4, 2004, pp. 423-434.

187. E. Zio, A. Cammi, A. Cioncolini, Dagger-sampling Variance Reduction in Monte Carlo

Reliability Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Vol. 10, N. 3-4, 2004, pp. 641-652.

188. M.Delfanti, M.Marseguerra, M.S.Pasquadibisceglie, M.Pozzi, E.Zio, "Affidabilità E

Diponibilità Di Impianti Media/Bassa Tensione", Elettrificazione - Rivista Generale di

Elettrotecnica e di Elettronica, Numero 12, Dicembre 2004, Anno 54°, pp. 18-26.

189. C. M. Rocco S., E. Zio, “Bootstrap-Based Techniques for Computing Confidence Intervals in

Monte Carlo system Reliability Evaluation”, Proceedings of RAMS 2005: Annual Reliability and

Maintainability, Alexandria (VA), January 24 – 27, 2005, CD ROM.

190. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, “Monte-Carlo Sampling & Simulation for Application to RAMS”,

Proceedings of RAMS 2005: Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Alexandria (VA),

January 24 – 27, 2005, Tutorial Notes, pp.1-25 (Invited tutorial).


Systems”, Proceedings of SMRSSL'05, The International Symposium on stochastic models in

reliability, safety, security and logistics, 18-22 February, 2005, Beer-Sheba, Israel, pp. 400-404.

192. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Bianchi, A Fuzzy Modeling Approach to Road Transport with

Application to a Case of Spent Nuclear Fuel Transport, Nuclear Technology, June 2004, Vol. 146,

N. 3, pp. 290-302.

193. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “First-Order Sensitivity Analysis of a Nuclear Safety

System by Monte Carlo Simulation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 90, 2005, pp. 162-

168.

194. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Identification of Nuclear Transients via Optimized Fuzzy Clustering”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 2005, pp 1068-1080.

195. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Evolutionary Fuzzy Clustering for the Classification of Transients in

Nuclear Components”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 46, 2005, pp 282-296.

196. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Cadini, “Genetic Algorithm Optimization of a Model-Free Fuzzy

Control System”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 2005, pp 712-728.

197. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, E. Patelli, A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to the Production

availability Evaluation of an Offshore Installation with Operational Loops”, ESREL 2005,

European Safety and Reliability Conference, vol 2, pp 2109-2117.

198. L. Podofillini, E. Zio, M. Marella, A Multi-State Monte Carlo Simulation Model of a Railway

Network system”, ESREL 2005, European Safety and Reliability Conference, vol 2, pp 1567-1575.

199. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, Calibration of Reduced Models by Multi-Objective

Genetic Algorithms”, ESREL 2005, European Safety and Reliability Conference, vol 2, pp 1349-

1356.

200. M. Delfanti, C. Bovo, M. S. Pasquadibisceglie, M. Pozzi, E. Zio, Ïndirect Monte Carlo

Approach to Evacuate Reliability and Availability Indices of Distribution Networks”, 18th

International Conference on Electricity Distribution, CIRED, Torino, Italy, 6-9 June 2005, CD-

ROM.

201. C. M. Rocco and E. Zio, “Solving Advanced Network Reliability Problems by Means of

Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Sampling”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 89,

2005, pp. 219-226.

202. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, D. Roverso, “An Extended Classifiability Index for Feature Selection in

Nuclear Transients” , Annals of Nuclear Energy, 32, 2005, pp 1632-1649.

203. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, L. Podofillini and D. W. Coit, “Optimal Design of Reliable Network

Systems in Presence of Uncertainty”, IEEE Trans. On Reliability, 54, 2005, pp 243-253.

204 . S. Carlos and E. Zio, “Detection of Malfunctions in the Secondary System of a Nuclear Power

Plant by Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Energy for

New Europe 2005, 5-8 September 2005, Bled, Slovenia, CD-ROM.

205. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, R. Canetta, “Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm Parameter

Estimation in a Reduced Nuclear Reactor Model”, M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation,

Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France, CD-ROM.

206. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, F. Cadini, “An Adaptive Model-Free Fuzzy Controller”, M&C2005,

Mathematics and Computation, Reactor Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15,

2005, Avignon, France, CD-ROM.

207. F. Giacobbo, E. Zio, E. Patelli, “Monte Carlo Simulation of Radioactive Contaminant

Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media”, M&C2005, Mathematics and Computation, Reactor

Physics and Environmental Analysis, September, 11-15, 2005, Avignon, France, CD-ROM.

208. F. Giacobbo, E. Patelli, E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Simulation of Radionuclides Groundwater

Transport in Presence of Heterogeneities and Nonlinearities, Proceedings of Migration’05, 10th

International Conference on Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products

in Geosphere, September 18-23, Avignon, France (Abstract Only).

209. S. Carlos and E. Zio, “Deteccion de Comportamientos Anomalos en el Secundario de una

Central Nuclear de Agua en Ebullicion Utilizando Redes Neuronales”, Proceedings of the XXXI

Reunion Anual de la Sociedad Nuclear Española, 19-21 Octubre, Logroño, Espana, CD-ROM.

210. E. Zio, “The European Lookout to Industrial Safety”, Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific

Conference on Risk Management and Safety”, 1-2 December, 2005, Hong Kong, pp. 64-70.

(Invited Keynote Plenary Lecture)

211. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and D. Roverso, “A Filter Approach to the Selection of Features for

Classification of Nuclear Transients”, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme Group

Meeting”, 16-21 October, 2005, Lillehammer, Norway, HPR-365, Vol. 1, C2.5.

212. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and D. Mercurio, “Fuzzy Clustering Classification of Nuclear Transients

with a Possibilistic Filter for Unknown Conditions”, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme

Group Meeting”, 16-21 October, 2005, Lillehammer, Norway, HPR-365, Vol. 1, C2.6.

213. E. Zio and G. Gola, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Pattern Classification in diagnostic

Applications”,, Proceedings of “Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting”, 16-21 October,

2005, Lillehammer, Norway, HPR-365, Vol. 1, C2.7.

214. E. Zio, “Risk and Risk Analysis: Concepts and Techniques”, Proceedings of the Pre-

Conference Workshop of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Risk Management and Safety, November

30, 2005, Hong Kong, pp. 1- 35.

215. L. Podofillini, E. Zio and J. Vatn, “Risk-informed optimisation of railway tracks inspection

and maintenance procedures”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91, 2006, pp. 20-35.

216. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, V. Zille, “A Combination of Monte Carlo Simulation and Cellular

Automata for Computing the Availability of Complex Network Systems”, Reliability Engineering


217. E. Zio, G. Gola, “Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Classification for Fault Diagnosis” , Annals of


218. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, E. Patelli, “Assessment of the Availability of an Offshore Installation by

Monte Carlo Simulation”, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, 83, 2006, pp. 312-

320.

219. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and R. Canetta, “Estimation of Effective Parameters in a Lumped

Nuclear Reactor Model Using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms”, Nuclear Science and

Engineering, 153, 2006, pp. 124-136.

220. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, I. C. Popescu and P. Ulmeanu, “A Fuzzy Logic-Based

Model for the Classification of Faults in the Pump Seals of the Primary Heat Transport System of a

CANDU & Reactor”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 153, 2006, pp. 157-171.


Systems”, Eksploatacja I Niezawodnosc (Maintenance and Reliability), Polish Maintenance Society,

2006, N. 2 (30), pp. 33-36.

222. E. Zio, C. Rocco, “Security Assessment in Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist Hazard: A

Methodological Approach Based on Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation”, Proceedings

of the International Conference on Complex Network and Infrastructure Protection, CNIP ’06,

March 28-29, 2006, Rome, Italy, pp. 391-402.

223. E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “Direct Monte Carlo Simulation for the Reliability Assessment of a Space

Propulsion System Phased Mission”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, PSAM 8, May 14-18, 2006, New Orleans, USA,

CD-ROM.

224. E. Zio, I. C. Popescu, “Fault Diagnosis of Nuclear Components by Kohonen Self-Organizing

Maps”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and


225. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, “Predicting the Resistance of Power Cables to Flame

Propagation by Neural Networks”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic


226. E. Zio, M. Librizzi, G. Sansavini “Biased Monte Carlo Simulation Technique for Multi-State

Network Unreliability Assessment”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic


227. D. Mandelli, T. Aldemir, E. Zio, “An Event Tree/Fault Tree Embedded Markov Model

Approach for the PSAM-8 Benchmark Problem Concerning a Phased Mission Space Propulsion

System”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and


228. E. Zio, G. Gola, “Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling for Fault Diagnosis in Rotating Machinery”,



229. D. Salazar, C. Rocco, E. Zio, “Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization for Robust Design”,



230. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, N. Pedroni, “Feature Selection for Transients Classification by a Niched

Pareto Genetic Algorithm”, Proceedings of the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent


945.

231. F. Cadini, E. Zio, “Optimized Direct Fuzzy Model Reference Adaptive Control Applied to

Nuclear Reactor Dynamics”, Proceedings of the 7th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent


953.

232. E. Zio, I. Popescu, “A Fuzzy-Logic-Based Methodology for Signal Trend Identification”,



233. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, D. Mercurio, “Identification of Transients in Nuclear Systems by a

Supervised Evolutionary Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm”, Proceedings of the 7th International

Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, August 29-31,

2006, Genova, Italy, pp. 962-969.

234. E. Zio, D. Mercurio, L. Podofillini, V. Dang, “A Fuzzy Clustering Approach for Accident

Scenarios Identification”, ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 18-


235. E. Zio, G. Gola, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Diagnosing Faults in Rotating Machinery”,

ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 18-22, 2006, Estoril,


236. E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “Sensitivity Analysis of the Weighted Fuzzy CREAM for the Assessment of

Human Performance“, ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 18-


237. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Exploiting Importance Measures Information for Optimizing System

Design by Genetic Algorithms”, ESREL 2006, European Safety and Reliability Conference,

September 18-22, 2006, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 661-669.

238. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “A Posteriori Human Reliability Analysis of a Train

Crash Scenario by the Fuzzy CREAM”, Atti del Convegno Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del

Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, VGR 2006, October 17-19, 2006, Pisa, Italy, CD-

ROM.

239. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, S. Martorell, “Basics of Genetic Algorithms Optimization for RAMS

Applications”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91, 2006, pp. 977-991.

240. E. Zio, “A Study of the Bootstrap Method for Estimating the Accuracy of Artificial Neural

Networks in Predicting Nuclear Transient Processes’, IEEE Trans. On Nucl. Sci., 53, N. 3, 2006,

pp. 1460-1478.

241. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “Quantitative Developments in the Cognitive Reliability

and Error Analysis Method (CREAM) for the Assessment of Human Performance”, Annals of


242. E. Zio, L. Podofillini, “Accounting for Components Interactions in the Differential Importance

Measure”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 91, 2006, pp. 1163-1174.

243. E. Zio, “An Introduction to the Basics of Reliability and Risk Analysis”, World Scientific

Publishing, 2007.

244. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and F. Cadini, “Optimized Fuzzy Controller of the Water Level of a

Pressurized Water Reactor Steam Generator”, Nuclear Science and Engineering, 155, 2007, pp.

386-394.

245. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and M. Librizzi, “Human Reliability Analysis by Fuzzy “CREAM””,

Risk Analysis, Vol. 27, No.1, 2007, pp. 137-154.

246. C. M. Rocco S. and E. Zio, “A Support Vector Machine Integrated System for the

Classification of Operation Anomalies in Nuclear Components and Systems”, Reliability


247. E. Zio, M. Marella and L. Podofillini, “A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to the Availability

Assessment of Multi-State Systems with Operational Dependencies”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 92, 2007, pp. 871-882.

248. E. Zio, C.M. Rocco S., D.E. Salazar A., G. Muller, “Complex Networks Vulnerability: A

Multiple-Objective Optimization Approach”, RAMS 2007, Proceedings of RAMS 2007: Annual

Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Orlando (USA), January 2007, CD ROM.

249. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and F. Cadini, Guest Editorial, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol.

2, No. 3, pp. 199-203, 2007.

250. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, G. Gola, D. Roverso and M. Hoffmann, Diagnosing Faults in Nuclear

Components by an Ensemble of Feature-Diverse Fuzzy Classifiers, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge

Management, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 224-238, 2007.

251. E. Zio and I. C. Popescu, Fuzzy-Logic-Based Identification of Transients in the Feedwater

System of a Nuclear Power Plant, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 249-

267, 2007.

252. F. Cadini, E. Zio and F. Di Maio, A Neural-Network-Based Variance Decomposition

Sensitivity Analysis, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 299-312, 2007.

253. D.E. Salazar, C.M. Rocco and E. Zio, Robust Reliability Design of a Nuclear System by

Multiple Objective Evolutionary Optimisation, Int. J. Nuclear Knowledge Management, vol. 2, No.

3, pp. 333-345, 2007.

254. M. Marseguerra, E. Zio and L. Podofillini, Genetic Algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation

for the Optimization of System Design and Operation, in “Computational Intelligence in Reliability

Engineering”, Gregory Levitin Ed., Springer, 2007, pp. 101-147.

255. E. Zio, M. Marella and L. Podofillini, “Importance Measures-Based Prioritization for

Improving the Performance of Multi-State Systems: Application to the Railway Industry”,


256. E. Zio and I. C. Popescu, Recognizing Signal Trends On-Line by a Fuzzy-Logic-Based

Methodology Optimized via Genetic Algorithms, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence,

vol. 20, pp. 831-849, 2007.

257. L. Podofillini and E. Zio, Identification of Important Groups of Events by a Genetic Algorithm

Search, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger,


258. E. Zio, F. Di Maio and S. Martorell, An Hybridization of Genetic Algorithms and Artificial

Neural Networks for RAMS+C Multiple Objective Optimization with Preferences, ESREL 2007,


259. D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, E. Zio, P. Baraldi and G. Gola, Solutions for Plant-Wide On-Line

Calibration Monitoring, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27,

2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 827-832.

260. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, G. Gola, D. Roverso and M. Hoffmann, Genetic Algorithms for Grouping of

Signals for System Monitoring and Diagnostics, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 833-840.

261. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, Service Reliability Analysis of a Tramway Network, ESREL 2007,


262. F. Cadini, E. Zio and N. Pedroni, Dynamic Systems Modelling by Locally Recurrent Neural

Networks, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger,


263. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, L. Podofillini and V.N. Dang, A Fuzzy Logic Model for Taking

Into Account Tasks Dependencies in Human Reliability Analysis, ESREL 2007, European Safety

and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 773-780.

264. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and I.C. Popescu, Extracting Fault Classification Rules from Fuzzy

Clustering, ESREL 2007, European Safety and Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger,


265. C. M. Rocco S., E. Zio and D. E. Salazar A., Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimisation of the

Protection of Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist Hazard, ESREL 2007, European Safety and

Reliability Conference, June 25-27, 2007, Stavanger, Norway, pp. 899-905.

266. F. Cadini, E. Zio and N. Pedroni, Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic Reliability Analysis,

SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot, Poland, pp. 45-54.

267. E. Zio, Soft Computing Methods Applied to Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis for

Maintenance, SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot,

Poland, pp. 363-378 (Plenary Lecture).

268. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, L. Podofillini and V.N. Dang, Sensitivity Analysis of a Fuzzy

Expert System for Modeling Dependencies in Human Operators Emergency Tasks, SSARS 2007,

Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot, Poland, pp. 379-389.

269. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and I. C. Popescu, Optimizing a Fuzzy Fault Classification Tree by a Single-

Objective Genetic Algorithm, SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29,

2007, Sopot, Poland, pp. 391-400.

270. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, Analysis of the Safety Efficiency of a Road Network: A Real Case

Study, SSARS 2007, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, July 22-29, 2007, Sopot, Poland, pp.

401-406.

271. E. Zio and V. Zille, Multi-Objective Optimization of Network Systems by Using ANT

Algorithms, International Journal of Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Volume 4,

Number 2, 2007, pp. 211-224.

272: E. Zio and Claudio M. Rocco, Security Assessment in Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist

Hazard: A Simulation Approach, Int. J. Critical Infrastructures Vol. 4, Nos.1/2, 2008, pp. 80-95.

273: E. Zio and G. Sansavini, A Systematic Procedure for Analysing Network Systems, Int. J.

Critical Infrastructures Vol. 4, Nos.1/2, 2008, pp. 172-184.

274. E. Zio, Evaluation of the Reliability Performance of Network systems by Cellular Automata

and Monte Carlo Simulation, in “Computational Models of Risks to Infrastructure”, D. Skanata and

D.M. Byrd Eds., NATO SPS, Vol. 13, IOS Press, 2007, pp. 111-120.

275. E. Zio, G. Sansavini, Reliability Analysis of Multi-State Networks: Making Monte Carlo

Simulation Feasible Through Biasing, in “Computational Models of Risks to Infrastructure”, D.

Skanata and D.M. Byrd Eds., NATO SPS, Vol. 13, IOS Press, 2007, pp. 121-130.

276. E. Zio and P. Baraldi, The Fusion of Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Classification for

Transient Identification, in “ Fuzzy Logic: A Spectrum of Theoretical and Practical Issues”, P. P.

Wang, D. Ruan and E. E. Kerre Eds., Springer, 2007, pp. 317-336.

277: E. Zio, G. Sansavini, R. Maja and G. Marchionni, An Analytical Approach to the Safety of

Road Networks, Int. J. of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 154, No.1, 2008, pp. 67-

76.

278. E. Zio, F. Di Maio and S. Martorell, Fusion of Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic

Algorithms for Multi-Objective System Reliability Design Optimization, J. of Risk and Reliability,

vol. 222, pp. 115-126, 2008.

279. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso and M. Hoffmann, Genetic Algorithms for Signal

Grouping in Sensor Validation: A Comparison of the Filter and Wrapper Approaches, J. of Risk

and Reliability, vol. 222, pp. 189-206, 2008.

280. E. Zio P. Baraldi and I. C. Popescu, “A Fuzzy Decision Tree for Fault Classification”, Risk

Analysis, Vol. 28, No.1, 2008, pp. 49-67.

281. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and I.C. Popescu, Fuzzy Decision Trees as Intelligent Decision Support

Systems for Fault Diagnosis, in “Intelligent Decision and Policy Making Support Systems”, D.

Ruan, F. Hardeman and K. van der Meer Eds., Springer, 2008, pp. 187-210.

282. E. Zio, Non-Deterministic Modeling in Reliability and Safety Analysis: The U-Factor, Leuven

Symposium on Applied Mechanics and Engineering – LSAME 2008, Leuven, Belgium, March 31-

April 2, 2008 (Plenary Lecture).

283. L. Podofillini, P. Baraldi, V.N. Dang, E. Zio and M. Librizzi, Techniques for Verification of

Expert Models for Dependence Assessment in Human Reliability Analysis, PSAM 9 Probabilistic

Safety Assessment and Management, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008, CD ROM.

284. E. Zio, C.A. Petrescu and G. Sansavini, Vulnerability Analysis of a Power Transmission

System, PSAM 9 Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Hong Kong, May 19-23, 2008,

CD ROM.

285. P. Baraldi, E. Zio and M. Compare, Importance Measures in Presence of Uncertainties, SSARS

2008, Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars, June 22-28, 2008, Sopot, Poland, pp. 33-40.

286. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, Online Estimation of Fatigue Crack Growth by Monte Carlo-

Based Filtering, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics" WCCM8 & "5th European

Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Science and Engineering" ECCOMAS 2008,

Venice, Italy, June 20-July 4, 2008.

287. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, I. C. Popescu, Uncertainty Representation and Propagation in the

Prediction of Structural Response: A Comparison of Different Approaches, 8th World Congress on

Computational Mechanics" WCCM8 & "5th European Congress on Computational Methods in

Applied Science and Engineering" ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, Italy, June 20-July 4, 2008.

288. E. Zio, M. Broggi, L. Golea, N. Pedroni, Predicting Reliability by Recurrent Neural Networks,

8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics" WCCM8 & "5th European Congress on

Computational Methods in Applied Science and Engineering" ECCOMAS 2008, Venice, Italy, June

20-July 4, 2008.

289. F. Cadini, E. Zio and D. Avram, “Condition-Based Maintenance by Particle Filtering”,


pp. 477-482.

290. K.P. Chang, D. Chang, T.J. Rhee and E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Simulation for Investigating the

Influence of Maintenance Strategies on the Production Availability of Offshore Installations”,


pp. 703-708.

291. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, “Reliability Analysis of Discrete Multi-State Systems by Means of

Subset Simulation”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-25,

2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 709-716.

292. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, “Modeling Failure Cascades in Network systems due to Distributed

Random Disturbances”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-

25, 2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 1861-1866.

293. R. Flage, T. Aven and E. Zio, “Alternative Representations of Uncertainty in System

Reliability and Risk Analysis: Review and Discussion”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and

Reliability Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 2081-2091.

294. P. Baraldi and E. Zio, “Event Tree Uncertainty Analysis by Monte Carlo and Possibility

Theory”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 22-25, 2008,

Valencia, Spain, pp. 2101-2106.

295. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, S. Martorell and Y. Nebot, “Neural Networks and Order Statistics for

Quantifying Nuclear Power Plants Safety Margins”, ESREL 2008, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 22-25, 2008, Valencia, Spain, pp. 2873-2881.

296. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, M. Broggi, L. Golea, “Locally Recurrent Neural Networks for Nuclear

Dynamics Modeling”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies

in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 367-372.

297. P. Baraldi, F. Cadini, E. Zio, I.C. Popescu, P. Richir, L. Dechamp. M. Caviglia, Z. Dzbikwicz,

G. Janssens-Maenhout, “A Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for the Classification of Non-Linear

Functional Behaviors in Nuclear Reprocessing Plants”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy

Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25,

2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 417-422.

298. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, “Reconstruction of Faulty Signals by

an Enesemble of Principal Component Analysis Models Optimized by a Multi=Objective Genetic

ALgorithm”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in

Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 933-938.

299. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, I.C. Popescu, “Fault Classification in Nuclear Systems Based on Fuzzy

Clustering and Logic”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent

Technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp.

939-944.

300. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Librizzi, “A Fuzzy Logic Model for the Assessment of Crew

Performance in Simulated Scenarios”, Proceedings of the 8th International Fuzzy Logic and

Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science (FLINS) Conference, September 21-25, 2008, Madrid,

Spain, pp. 1003-1008.

301. F. Cadini, E. Zio and C. Petrescu, “Using Centrality Measures to Rank the Importance of the

Components of a Complex Network Infrastructure”, 3rd International Workshop on Critical

Information Infrastructure Security, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October 13-15, 2008, pp. 187-199.

302. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, N. Berteletti, A. Carpignano, F. Ganci, “Analisi delle Incertezze nella

Modellazione di un Impianto di distribuzione di Idrogeno per Autotrazione”, Atti del Convegno

Nazionale Valutazione e Gestione del Rischio negli insediamenti Civili e Industriali, VGR 2008,


303. E. Zio, C. Guedes Soares, Guest Editorial, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 93, pp

1779-1780, 2008.

304. E. Zio, J.K. Vaurio, Guest Editorial, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 94, p. 1, 2009.

305. Various Authors (including E. Zio), “IEEE Reliability Society – Annual Technical Report

2007”, IEEE Trans. On Reliability, vol. 57, No. 3, 2008, pp. 398-424 (402-403 contribution of E.

Zio).

306. F. Cadini, E. Zio, V. Kopustinkas, R. Urbonas, “A Model Based on Bootstrapped Neural

Networks for Computing the Maximum Fuel Cladding Temperature in an RBMK-1500 Nuclear

Reactor Accident”, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 238, 2008, pp. 2165 – 2172.

307. P. Baraldi and E. Zio, “A Combined Monte Carlo and Possibilistic Approach to Uncertainty

Propagation in Event Tree Analysis”, Risk Analysis, Vol. 28, No.5, 2008, pp. 1309-25.

308. D.E. Salazar, C.M. Rocco and E. Zio, “Optimal Protection of Complex Networks Exposed to a

Terrorist Hazard: A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach”, J. of Risk and Reliability, vol. 222,

2008, pp. 327-335.

309. E. Zio, “Risk-Informed Regulation: Handling Uncertainty for a Rational Management of

Safety”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Vol. 40, No. 5, 2008, pp. 327-348

310. L. Podofillini and E. Zio, “Designing a Risk-Informed Balanced System by Genetic

Algorithms: Comparison of Different Balancing Criteria”, Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, vol 93, No. 12, 2008, pp. 1842-1852.

311. P. Secchi, E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Quantifying uncertainties in the estimation of safety parameters

by using bootstrapped artificial neural networks”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 35, No. 12,

2008, pp. 2338-2350.



312. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, G. Gola and N. Pedroni, “Single and Ensemble Fault Classiffers Based on

Features Selected by Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms”, in “Advances in Mathematical and

Statistical Modeling” published in the series “Statistics for Industry and Technology (SIT)”,

Birkhäuser, Boston, Inc. ISBN: 978-0-8176-4625-7.

313. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, “Model-Based Monte Carlo State Estimation for Condition-

Based Component Replacement”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 3, 2008,

pp. 752-758.

314. E. Zio and F. Di Maio, “Bootstrap and Order Statistics for Quantifying Thermal-Hydraulic

Code Uncertainties in the Estimation of Safety Margins”, Science and Technology of Nuclear

Installations, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 340164, 9 pages, doi:10.1155/2008/340164.

315. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, “Building Confidence in the Reliability Assessment of Thermal-

Hydraulic Passive Systems”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 1, 2009, pp.

268-281.

316. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, "Estimation of the Functional Failure Probability of a Thermal-

Hydraulic Passive System by Subset Simulation", Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol 239, No. 3,

2009, pp. 580-599.

317. E. Zio, M. Broggi and N. Pedroni, "Nuclear Reactor Dynamics On-line Estimation by Locally

Recurrent Neural Networks", Progress in Nuclear Energy, vol 51, No. 3, 2009, pp. 573-581.

318. E. Zio, P. Baraldi and N. Pedroni, "Optimal Power System Generation Scheduling by Multi

Objective Genetic Algorithms with Preferences", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94,

No. 2, 2009, pp. 432-444.

319. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, "A fuzzy set-based approach for

modeling dependence among human errors", Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 60, No.13, 2009, pp.

1947-1964.

320. F. Cadini, E. Zio and D. Avram, "Monte Carlo-based Filtering for Fatigue Crack Growth

Estimation", Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2009, pp. 367-373.

321. I. Eusgeld, W. Kroger, G. Sansavini, M. Schlapfer and E. Zio, "The role of network theory and

object-oriented modeling within a framework for the vulnerability analysis of critical

infrastructures", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 5, 2009, pp. 954–963.

322. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E.Zio, “A method for ranking components importance in presence of

epistemic uncertainties", Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, Vol. 22, 2009, pp.

582-592.

323. E. Zio and G. Gola, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Technique for Fault Diagnosis and its Application to

Rotating Machinery”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 94, No. 1, 2009, pp. 78-88.

324. C.M. Rocco, D.E. Salazar and E. Zio, “Application of Advanced Computational Techniques to

the Vulnerability Assessment of Network Systems Exposed to Uncertain Harmful Events”,

International Journal of Performability Engineering, vol. 5, No. 1, 2009, pp. 71-84.


325. E. Zio P. Baraldi and I. C. Popescu, “A Fuzzy Decision Tree for Fault Classification in the

Steam Generator of a Pressurized Water Reactror”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 36, 2009, pp.

1159-1169.

326. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "A procedure for the reconstruction of

faulty signals by means of an ensemble of regression models based on principal components

analysis", 6th American Nuclear Society Topic Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls

and Human Machine Interface Technology, NPIC-HMIT, 5-9 April 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee,

USA. CD-ROM.

327. E. Zio, F. Di Maio,“Fuzzy Clustering Classification of Dynamic Scenarios of Digital

Instrumentation and Control in Nuclear Power Plants”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear

Society (ANS) NPIC HMIT 2009 Topical Meeting - Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls, and

Human Machine Interface Technology, 5-9 April 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Nuclear

Society, USA. CD-ROM.

328. F. Di Maio, M. Stasi, E. Zio, D. Mandelli, T. Aldemir, “Identification of Faults in a Level

Control Dynamic System”, Proceedings of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) NPIC HMIT 2009

Topical Meeting - Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Controls, and Human Machine Interface

Technology, 5-9 April 2009, Knoxville, Tennessee, American Nuclear Society, USA. CD-ROM.

329. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "A novel ensemble model aggregation

for robust signal reconstruction in nuclear power plants monitoring", 22nd International

COMADEM Conference, Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, 9-11

June 2009, San Sebastian, Spain.

330. F. Cadini, E. Zio, C.A. Petrescu, “A multi-objective genetic algorithm for the optimization of

electrical transmission networks”, MMR2009, 6th International Conference on Mathematical

Methods in Reliability Theory. Methods. Applications, 22-27 June, 2009, Moskow, Russia.

331. E. Zio, C. Guedes Soares, Guest Editorial, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 41, pp 1131-

1132, 2009.

332. F. Cadini, E. Zio “Model-based Monte Carlo state estimation for condition-based component

replacement”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, doi:10.1016/j.ress.2008.08.003, 94, n. 3,

pp. 752-758.



Safety, RESS, 10.1016/j.ress.2009.08.001, 2009.

334. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Processing Dynamic Scenarios from a Reliability Analysis of a Nuclear

Power Plant Digital Instrumentation and Control System”, Annals of Nuclear Energy,

doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2009.06.012, 2009.

335. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, "Functional Failure Analysis of a Thermal-Hydraulic Passive System

by Means of Line Sampling", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol 9, No. 11, pp. 1764-

1781.

336. G. Sansavini, M. R. Hajj, I. K. Puri and E. Zio, "A Deterministic Representation of Cascade

Spreading in Complex Networks", Europhysics Letters, 87(4), 48004, August 2009.

337. P. Baraldi, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Application of a Niched Pareto Genetic Algorithm for

Selecting Features for Nuclear Transients Classification”, International Journal of Computational

Intelligence Systems, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2009, pp. 118-151.

338. P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, V. N. Dang, "Two Tecchniques of Sensitivity

and Uncertainty Analysis of Fuzzy Expert Systems", Expert Systems with Applications,Vol.36,

No.10, 2009, pp.12461–12471.

339. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E.Zio, “Importance Measure in Presence of Uncertainties",

Electronic Journal of International Group on Reliability "Reliability & Risk Analysis: Theory &

Applications". Vol.2. No.2, 2009, pp 30-41.

340. D. Mercurio, L. Podofillini, E. Zio, V.N. Dang, “Identification of Dynamic Event Tree

Scenarios via Possibilistic Clustering: Application to a Steam Generator Tube Rupture Event”,

Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 41, No. 6, 2009, pp. 1180-1191.

341. E. Zio, “Neural Networks Simulation of the Transport of Contaminants in Groundwater,

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol.2, No. 3 (October, 2009), pp. 268-

277.

342. C. Rocco, E. Zio, Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation for Network Reliability and

Availability Assessment, in “Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering New

Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability Series: Studies in Computational

Intelligence”, Vol. 40, Ch. 5, pp 113-144, Levitin, Gregory (Ed.), 2007, Springer Verlag,

343. F. Cadini, E. Zio and C. Petrescu, “Chapter 14 - Using centrality measures to rank the

importance of the components of a complex network infrastructure”, Critical Information

Infrastructure Security - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN

0302-9743, 5508, 2009, pp. 155-167.

344. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Compare, G. Rossetti, A. Despujols: Modeling of Degradation

mechanisms in electrical components taking into account their actual living conditions. ICRMS

2009. July 20-24, 2009, Chengdu, China.

345. J. Andrews, C. Berenguer, M. Eid, E. Zio: ESReDA/ESRA maintenance modeling and

applications project group. ICRMS 2009. July 20-24, 2009, Chengdu, China.

346. C. Fiorini, A. Marone, P. Baraldi, F.Cadini, E. Zio, F.Camera, "Employing Neural Networks to

Determine the Position of Interaction of Medium-High Energy Gamma Rays", IEEE Nuclear

Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 25-31 October 2009, Orlando Florida, USA

347. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, “Particle filtering for the estimation of system mode of

operation”, SSARS 2009 Summer Safety & Reliability Seminars, July 19-25, 2009 Gdańsk/Sopot,

Poland.

348. F. Cadini, E. Zio, L. Golea, C.A. Petrescu, "Multi-objective genetic algorithms for the

reliability analysis and optimization of electrical transmission networks", SSARS 2009 Summer

Safety & Reliability Seminars, July 19-25, 2009 Gdańsk/Sopot, Poland

349. P. Baraldi, M. Conti, M. Librizzi, E. Zio, L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, "A Bayesian Network

Model for Dependence Assessment in Human Reliability Analysis", ESREL 2009, European Safety

and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 223-230.

350. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "A Dempster-Shafer theory of Evidence approach to model uncertainty

analysis", ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009,


351. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Aggregation of randomized model

ensemble outcomes for reconstructing nuclear signals from faulty sensors", ESREL 2009,

European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.

352. R. Flage, P. Baraldi, F. Ameruso, E. Zio, T. Aven, "Handling epistemic uncertainties in fault

tree analysis by probabilistic and possibilistic approaches", ESREL 2009, European Safety and


353. V. Zille, A. Despujols, P. Baraldi, G. Rossetti, E. Zio: “A Framework for the Monte Carlo

simulation of Degradation and Failure processes in the assessment of maintenance programs

performance”. ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability Conference, September 7-10, 2009,


354. L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, P. Baraldi, M. Conti, E. Zio, “A review of Decision Tree models for

assessing Human Reliability Analysis dependence”, ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 7-10, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic.

355. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Compare, G. Rossetti, A. Despujols: “A Novel approach to Model the

Degradation of components in electrical production plants”. ESREL 2009, European Safety and


356. Zio, E. and Sansavini, G., “Indicators of component criticality for failure cascade processes in

network systems”, in Reliability, Risk and Safety: Theory and Applications – Briš, Guedes Soares &

Martorell (eds), Proceedings of ESREL 2009 Europe Annual Conference, 6-11 September 2009,

Prague, Czech Republic, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-55509-8.

357. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, “Identification of betweenness-central groups of components in a complex

network infrastructure by genetic algorithms”, ESREL 2009, European Safety and Reliability

Conference, September 7-10, 2009 Prague, Czech Republic.

358. F. Cadini, E. Zio and C. Petrescu, “Multi-objective genetic algorithm optimization of electrical

power transmission networks”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Safety and

Reliability, ESREL 2009, September 7-10, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 1917-1923.

359. E. Zio, F. Cadini, D. Avram, T. Girotti, A. Luce and A. Taglioni, "Monte Carlo simulation of a

compartment model of radionuclide migration at a radioactive waste repository". Proceedings of

the 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste

Management, ICEM’09/DECOM’09, October 11-15, 2009, Liverpool, UK.

360. F. Di Maio, P. Secchi, S. Vantini, E. Zio, “Functional Principal Component Analysis for

Dynamic Fault Scenarios Classification”, Proceedings of S.Co.2009 Conference- Complex Data



361. F. Di Maio, M. Stasi, P. Secchi, S. Vantini, E. Zio, “Dynamic Fault Scenarios For Training A

Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Fault Classifier”, Proceedings of S.Co.2009 Conference- Complex Data



362. E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Simulation Metohds for Reliability Estimation and Failure Prognostics”,

Proceedings of S.Co.2009 Conference- Complex Data Modeling and Computationally Intensive

Statistical Methods for Estimation and Prediction, Milano, Italy, September 2009. (Inivted paper)

363. E. Zio, F. Di Maio,”Methods and tools for the risk-informed design and operation of safe

nuclear power plants”, Proceedings of the Conference “The Italian Contribution to the EU Science

& Technology Fellowship Programme in China”, Italian Embassy, Beijing, China, September 24,

2009.

364. C. Rocco, E. Zio, O. Bastidas, “Complex Networks Exposed to Terrorist Hazard: A Security

Assessment based on Cellular Automata and Monte Carlo Simulation, XIII CLAIO Congreso

Latino-Iberoamericano de Investigación Operativa, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2006.

365. F. Cadini, E. Zio, L.R. Golea, C.A. Petrescu, “Analysis and optimization of power

transmission grids by genetic algorithms”, Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications, Vol.2, No. 4,

December 2009.

366. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, M. Broggi, L. Golea, “Modelling the dynamics of the Lead Bismuth

Eutectic eXperimental Accelerator Driven System by an Infinite Impulse Response Locally

Recurrent Neural Network”, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 41(10), pp. 1293-1306, 2009.

367. C. Rocco, J.E. Ramirez-Marquez, D. Salazar, E. Zio, “A Flow Importance Measure via

Multiple-Objective Optimization and its Application to an Italian Transmission Power System”,

International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1 January 2010, pp. 53-61.

368. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Robust nuclear signal reconstruction

by a novel ensemble model aggregation procedure", International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge

Management, Vol 4, No. 1, pp 34-41, 2010.

369. P. Baraldi, A. Cammi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "An ensemble approach to sensor fault detection and

signal reconstruction for nuclear system control" - Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol 37, No.6, pp.

778-790, 2010.

370. P. Baraldi, A. Cammi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "Local Fusion of an Ensemble of Models for the

Reconstruction of Faulty Signals" - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 57, issue 2, pp.793-

806, 2010.

371. P. Baraldi, I. C. Popescu, E. Zio, "Methods Of Uncertainty Analysis In Prognostics",

International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol 6, No. 4, pp.303-331, 2010.

372. E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, "Evaluation of crew performance in simulated nuclear

emergency procedures by fuzzy expert system", International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge

Management, vol. 4, N1, pp 42-58, 2010.




2010.




2010.

375. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, N. Pedroni, “Quantitative functional failure analysis of a thermal-

hydraulic passive system by means of bootstrapped Artificial Neural Networks”, Annals of Nuclear

Energy, 37(5), pp. 639-649, 2010.

376. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, "An optimized Line Sampling method for the estimation of the failure

probability of nuclear passive systems", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, doi:

10.1016/j.ress.2010.06.007.

377. E.Zio, R.Piccinelli, "Randomized flow model and centrality measure for electrical power

transmission network analysis", Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 95 (2010) 379 – 385.

378. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “A Fuzzy Similarity-Based Method for Failure Detection and Recovery

Time Estimation”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 4, July 2010, pp.

305-322.



Safety, RESS, Volume 95(1), Pages 49-57, 10.1016/j.ress.2009.08.001, 2010.

380. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, J. Tong, “Safety Margins Confidence Estimation for a Passive Residual

Heat Removal System”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, RESS, Vol. 95, pp. 828–836,

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2010.03.006, 2010.

381. E. Zio, R. Bazzo, Multiobjective optimization of the inspection intervals of a nuclear safety

system: A clustering-based framework for reducing the Pareto Front, Annals of Nuclear Energy,

Vol. 37, Issue 6, pag. 798-812.

382. F. Cadini, D. Avram, E. Zio, “A Monte Carlo-based Technique for Estimating the Operation

Modes of Hybrid Dynamic Systmes”. Reliability and Risk Analysis: Theory and Applications, No.

2(17), Vol. 1, June 2010.

383. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, E. Zio, T. Girotti, A. Luce and A. Taglioni, "Monte Carlo estimation

of radionuclide release at a repository scale", Annals of Nuclear Energy, 37, 6, 861-866, 2010.

384. E. Zio and N. Pedroni, "Reliability Estimation by Advanced Monte Carlo Simulation", In:

Faulin, Juan, Martorell, Ramirez-Marquez, "Simulation Methods for Reliability and Availability of

Complex Systems" (Springer Eds.), pp. 3-39, 2010.

385. E. Zio, “Monte Carlo Methods for Reliability Estimation and Failure Prognostics”, Complex

Data Modeling, Springer,pp. 138-151, 2010.

386. G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "Large scale nuclear sensor monitoring

and diagnostics by means of an ensemble of regression models based on Evolving Clustering

Methods", 10th International Probability Safety Assessment & Management Conference, 7-11 June,

Seattle, USA (2010), pp. 1-10, 2010.

387. F. Cadini, D. Avram, E. Zio, A. Luce, A. Taglioni, "Monte Carlo simulation-based reliability

model for the PSA of a radioactive waste repository". Journal of Polish Safety and Reliability

Association, (Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars - SSARS 2010), Vol. 1, pp. 43 - 50.

388. G.E. Apostolakis, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, "Artificial Neural Networks and quadratic Response

Surfaces for the functional failure analysis of a thermal-hydraulic passive system", Proceedings of

the 10th International PSAM Conference, pp. 1-12, 2010.

389. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, "Sensitivity analysis of the model of a nuclear passive system by means of

Subset Simulation", Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sixth International Conference on

Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO), July 19-22, Milano (Italy), pp. 7778-7779, 2010.

390. Zio E., Piccinelli R., Delfanti M., Pozzi M., Olivieri V., "Performance analysis of a power

transmission system under uncertain load conditions and network configurations". Journal of Polish

Safety and Reliability Association, (Summer Safety and Reliability Seminars - SSARS 2010), Vol.

1.

391. Y. Yu, T. Liu, J. Tong, J. Zhao, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A. Zhang, “Multi-Experts Analytic

Hierarchy Process for the Sensitivity Analysis of Passive Safety Systems”, Proceedings of the 10th

International Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management Conference, PSAM10, Seattle, June

2010.

392. Y. Yu, T. Liu, J. Tong, J. Zhao, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A. Zhang, “Variance Decomposition

Sensitivity Analysis of a Passive Residual Heat Removal System Model”, Proceedings of the Sixth

International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output, SAMO2010, Milano, July 2010.



ESReDA/ESRA. 'Advanced Maintenance Modelling'. (4-5th May, 2010).

394. F. Cadini, D. Avram, A. Cherubini, J.D. Sanctis, E. Zio, A. Guadagnini, M. Riva, A. Luce, A.

Taglioni, An Integrated Monte Carlo Simulation and MODFLOW Model for the Performance

Assessment of a Radioactive Waste Repository. XVIII International Conference on Water

Resources CMWR 2010, J. Carrera (Ed), CIMNE, June 21-24, 2010, Barcelona.

395. F. Cadini, E. Zio, G. Peloni "Detection of the Time of Failure of a Hybrid System by Particle

Filtering in a Log-likelihood Ratio Approach". IEEE - Prognostics & System Health Management

Conference 2010 (PHM-2010 Macau), 12-14 January, 2010, China.

396. P. Baraldi, G. Gola, M. Hoffmann, F. Mangili, D. Roverso, E. Zio -Comparison of different

methods of aggregation of model ensemble outcomes in the validation and reconstruction of real

nuclear power plant signals - ESREL 2010, Annual Conference 5-9 September 2010 Rhodes,

Greece.

397. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, M. Compare, G. Rizzi , M. De Nigris, 'Electrical cable diagnostics using an

experimental dataset of Partial Discharge measurements containing contradictory patterns'. ESREL

2010 Annual Conference 5-9 September 2010 Rhodes, Greece.

398. R. Flage, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, T. Aven, Possibility-probability transformation in comparing

different approaches to the treatment of epistemic uncertainties in a fault tree analysis. ESREL

2010, Annual Conference 5-9 September 2010 Rhodes, Greece.

399. E. Zio, G.E. Apostolakis, N. Pedroni, “Estimation of the failure probability of a thermal-

hydraulic passive system by means of Artificial Neural Networks and quadratic Response Surfaces”.

ESREL 2010, Annual Conference 5-9 September 2010 Rhodes, Greece.

400. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, G. Sansavini, N. Pedroni, "Assessing the feasibility of a cascade prediction

model for electrical transmission networks using Subset Simulation", ESREL 2010 Annual

Conference 5-9 September 2010 Rhodes, Greece.

401. E. Zio, R. Bazzo, "Level Diagrams for Decision Aiding in Multiobjective Optimization

Problems". ESREL 2010 Annual Conference 5-9 September 2010 Rhodes, Greece.

402. E. Zio and F. Di Maio, "Data-Driven On-Line Prediction of the Available Recovery Time in

Nuclear Power Plant Failure Scenarios", ESREL 2010 Annual Conference 5-9 September 2010

Rhodes, Greece.

403. E. Zio and Sansavini G., "Modeling failure cascades in critical infrastructures with physically-

characterized components and interdependencies", ESREL 2010 Annual Conference 5-9 September

2010 Rhodes, Greece.

404. P. Baraldi, R. Canesi, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, R. Chevalier, "Signal Grouping for Condition

Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plant Components", Seventh American Nuclear Society International

Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface

Technologies NPIC&HMIT 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7-11, 2010, on CD-ROM,

American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2010).

405. Baraldi, P., Razavi-Far, R., Zio, E., 2010. A Method for Estimating the Confidence in the

Identification of Nuclear Transients by a Bagged Ensemble of FCM Classifiers. Seventh American

Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and

Human-Machine Interface Technologies NPIC&HMIT 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 7-11,

2010, on CD-ROM, American Nuclear Society, LaGrange Park, IL (2010).

406. E. Zio, “Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Reliability Estimation and Failure Prognostics”,

SMRLO’10, International Symposium on Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering, Life

Science and Operations Management, Beer-Sheva, Israel, February 8-11, 2010.

407. Moura, M. C.; Lins, I. D.; Zio, E.; Droguett, E. L. "Combining Particle Swarm Optimization

and Support Vector Regression for Reliability Prediction". Proceedings of the 10th International

PSAM Conference, pp. 1-10.

408. O. Nusbaumer, W. Kroger and E. Zio, “Analytical Solutions of Large Fault Tree Models using

BDD: New Techniques and Applications”. Proceedings of the 10th International PSAM

Conference, pp. 1-10.

409. L. Podofillini, D. Mercurio, V.N. Dang and E. Zio, "An Identification and Grouping Approach

to the Analysis of the Output of a Dynamic Safety Assessment ", Procedia - Social and Behavioral

Sciences, Sixth International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output (SAMO), July

19-22, Milano (Italy), pp. 7778-7779, 2010.

410. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Optimization of the Test Intervals of a Nuclear Safety System by

Genetic Algorithms, Solution Clustering and Fuzzy Preference Assignment”, Nuclear Engineering

and Technology, Vol. 42, N. 4, Aug. 2010.

411. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “A Clustering Procedure for Reducing the Number of Representative

Solutions in the Pareto Front of Multiobjective Optimization Problems, European Journal of

Operations Research, 2010.

412. F. Cadini, D. Avram, E. Zio. A. Luce, A. Taglioni, “Preliaminary Evaluation of a Radioactive

Waste Repository Safety Performance by a Monte Carlo Simulation-Based Reliability Model”,

Kerntechnik, Vol. 75 (6), 2010, pp.316, 321.

413. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "A comparison between probabilistic and Dempster-Shafer Theory

approaches to Model Uncertainty Analysis in the Performance Assessment of Radioactive Waste

Repositories". Risk Analysis, Vol 30, No 7, pp 1139-1156, 2010.

414. L. Podofillini, V.N. Dang, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, M. Librizzi, “Using Expert Models in Human

Reliability Analysis – A Dependence Assessment Method Based on Fuzzy Logic”, Risk Analysis,

Vol. 30, No. 8, pp. 1277-1297, 2010.

415. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, T. Girotti, E. Zio, A. Luce, A. Taglioni, " Monte Carlo based

assessment of the safety performance of a radioactive waste repository", Reliability Engineering &

System Safety, Vol 95, Iss. 8 (2010).

416. F. Cadini, E. Zio, C.A. Petrescu (2010). Optimal expansion of an existing electrical power

transmission network by multi-objective genetic algorithms RELIABILITY ENGINEERING &

SYSTEM SAFETY, (pp. 173- 181), 95;

417. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, M. Stasi, “A data-driven approach for predicting failure scenarios in

nuclear systems”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 37, 482–491, 2010.

418. F. Cadini, Avram, D., Zio, E. (2010) “System State Estimation by Particle Filtering for Fault

Diagnosis and Prognosis”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal

of Risk and Reliability, 224 (3), pp. 149-158.



ESReDA/ESRA. 'Advanced Maintenance Modelling'. 4-5th May, 2010, Pecs, Hungary.

420. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, T. Girotti, E. Zio, A. Luce, A. Taglioni (2010). A Monte Carlo

Simulation Model for Radionuclide Migration at the Repository Scale. (pp. 1- 5). In: PSAM 10 -

10th International Probabilistic Safety Assessment & Management Conference. June 7-11,

2010, Seattle, USA.

421. T. Aven and E. Zio, “Some Consideration on the Treatment of Uncertainties in Risk

Assessment for Practical Decision Making”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96,.

2011, pp. 64-74, 2011.

422. E. Zio and G. Peloni, “Particle filtering prognostic estimation of the remaining useful life of

nonlinear components”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 403-409, 2011.

423. P. Baraldi, R. Razavi-Far, E. Zio, "Classifier-Ensemble Incremental-Learning Procedure for

Nuclear Transient Identification at Different Operational Conditions", Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 480–488, 2011.

424. Piero Baraldi, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Enrico Zio, "Bagged Ensemble of FCM Classifiers for

Nuclear Transient Identification", Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 38 (5), pp 1161-1171, 2011.

425. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Signal reconstruction by a GA-

optimized ensemble of PCA models", Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 241, 2011, pp.301-309.

426. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, G. Gola, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "Two novel procedures for aggregating

randomized model ensemble outcomes for robust signal reconstruction in nuclear power plants

monitoring systems", Annals of Nuclear Energy, Vol. 38 (2-3), pp. 212-220, 2011..

427. P. Baraldi, G. Gola, E. Zio, D. Roverso, M. Hoffmann, "A randomized model ensemble

approach for reconstructing signals from faulty sensors"., Expert Systems With Applications, Vol.

38 (8), pp. 9211-9224

428. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, A. Despujols, E. Zio, "Modeling of the effect of maintenance actions

on the degradation of an electric power plant component". Maintenance modelling and

applications - Special Issue. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical E, Journal of Risk and

Reliability, Vol. 7, No 11, pp. 43-60, 2011.

429. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Identification of contradictory patterns in experimental

datasets for the development of models for electrical cables diagnostics". special issue: Data Mining

in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Risk Management of International Journal of

Performability Engineering, Vol. 7, No 11, pp. 43-60, 2011.

430. Zio, E., Amato, A., Compare, M., Gallisto, M., Maccari, A., Paganelli, M. Business

Interruption And Loss Of Assets Risk Assessment In Support Of The Design Of An Innovative

Concentrating Solar Power Plant. Renewable Energies, Volume 36, Issue 5, pp. 1558-1567, May

2011.

431. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, “How to effectively compute the reliability of a thermal-hydraulic passive

system”, accepted for publication on Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 241, Issue 1, pp.

310-327, Jan. 2011.

432. F. Di Maio, P. Secchi, S. Vantini, E. Zio, “Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Signal Functional

Principal Components for Post-Processing Dynamic Scenarios of a Nuclear Power Plant Digital

Instrumentation and Control System”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume 60, no. 2, pp. 415-

425, June 2011.

433. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, "Modeling Interdependent Network Systems for Identifying Cascade-

Safe Operating Margins", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 60(1), pp. 94-101, March 2011.

434. F. Cadini, E. Zio, L.R. Golea and C.A. Petrescu, “Application of Multi-Objective Genetic

Algorithms to Two Case Studies of Reliability Efficiency Analysis and Optimal Expansion of

electrical Transmission Networks”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical E, Journal of Risk

and Reliability, Vol. 225, pp. 365-374, 2011.

435 E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Level Diagrams Analysis of Pareto Fronts for Multiobjective System

Redundancy Allocation”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 569-580, 2011.

436. E. Zio and G. Sansavini, Component Criticality in Failure Cascade Processes of Network

Systems, Risk Analysis, Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 1196-1210, August 2011, ISSN 0272-4332.

437. Baraldi P., Compare M., Despujols A., Zio E. 2011. ‘Modeling of the effect of maintenance

actions on the degradation of a water-feeding turbo-pump of a nuclear power plant. Journal of Risk

and Reliability, Vol. 225 (2), pp. 169-183.

438. P. Baraldi, R. Canesi, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, R. Chevalier, "Generic algorithm-based wrapper

approach for grouping condition monitoring signal of nuclear power plant components". Integrated

Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 18 (3), pp. 221-234, 2011.

439. E. Zio and T. Aven, “Uncertainties in Smart grids Behavior and Modeling: What Risks and

Vulnerabilities?”, Energy Policy, Vol. 39, 2011, pp. 6308-6320.

440. A. Cunningham, W. Wang, E. Zio, A. Wall, D. Allanson and J. Wang, “Application of delay-

time analysis via Monte Carlo simulation”, Journal of Marine Engineering and Technology,

Volume 10, Issue 3 September 2011, pp. 57-72.

441. E. Zio and G. Viadana, “Optimization of the Inspection Intervals of a Safety System in a

Nuclear Power Plant by Multi-Objective Differential Evolution”, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, Vol 96, pp. 1552-1563, 2011.

442. I.D. Lins, M. das Chagas. Moura, E. Zio and E. Lopez Droguett, “Failure and Reliability

Prediction by Support Vector Machines Regression of Time Series Data”, Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, Vol. 96, pp. 1527-1534, 2011.

443. E. Zio, “Availability Analysis: Concepts and Methods”, Encyclopedia of Operations Research

and Management Science, Wiley, 2011.

444. E. Zio and R. Bazzo, “Muti-Objective reliability Allocation in Multi-State Systems: Decision

Making by Visualization and Anaysis of Pareto Front and Sets”, in Recent Advances in System

Reliability: signatures, Multi-State Systems and Statistical Inference, A. Lisnianski and I. Frenkel

Eds., Springer, 2011.

445. P. Baraldi , I.C. Popescu, E. Zio, "Methods for uncertainty analysis in the reliability

assessment of a degrading structure", in Integration of Structural Reliability Analyses into System

Risk Assessment, E. Ardillon ed., DNV publishing, 81-106, 2011.

446. E. Zio, ”Stochastic Simulation of Critical Infrastructures for Electric Power Transmission”, in

Energy Security, A. Gheorghe and L. Muresan Eds., Springer, pp. 109-124, 2011.

447. F. Di Maio, E. Zio, L. Tao, J. Tong, “Passive System Accident Scenario Analysis by

Simulation”, submitted for publication on the proceedings of PSA2011, International Topical

meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis, March 13-17, Wilmington, USA,

CDROM.

448. W. Zhao, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "Confidence in Signal Reconstruction by the Evolving Clustering

Method", IEEE Prognostics and System Health Management Conference, Shenzhen, China, 23-25

May 2011, CDROM.

449. C. Fang, F. Marle and E. Zio, “An Integrated Framework for the Optimization of Project Risk

Response Plan under Resource Constraints with Genetic Algorithm”, Proceedings of the

International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety (ICQR2SM), Xian,

China, June 17- 19, 2011, pp. 910-915.

450. F. Di Maio, S.S.Y. Ng, K.L. Tsui, E. Zio, “Naïve Bayesian Classifier for On-line Remaining

Useful Life Prediction of Degrading Bearings”, Proceedings of The Seventh International

Conference on “Mathematical Methods in Reliability”MMR2011, Beijing, China, June 20-24, 2011,

pp. 506-513.

451. E. Zio and G. Viadana, “Differential Evolution for Single-objective Optimization”,

Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on “Mathematical Methods in

Reliability”MMR2011, Beijing, China, June 20-24, 2011, pp. 230-237.

452. E. Zio, R. Bazzo, “Clustering Of Multiple System Reliability Design Solutions For Decision

Making”, ICASP 11 - 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in

Civil Engineering, August 1-4, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

453. E. Zio, G. Sansavini, “Modeling cascading failures in ‘systems of systems’ with uncertain

behavior”, ICASP 11 - 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability

in Civil Engineering, August 1-4, 2011, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

454. F. Di Maio, E. Zio, M. Pecht, P. Tse, K.L. Tsui, “Ensemble of Unsupervised Fuzzy C-Means

Clustering Models for Classifying the Health Status of Oil Sand Pumps”, Proceedings of European

Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011,

CDROM.

455. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, F. Di Maio, L. Pappaglione, R. Chevalier, R. Seraoui, “Differential

Evolution for Optimal Grouping of Condition Monitoring Signals of Nuclear Components”,

submitted for publication on the proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011


456. P. Baraldi, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, E. Ferrario, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, "Monte Carlo and fuzzy

interval propagation of hybrid uncertainties on a risk model for the design of a flood protection

dike", Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes,


457. P. Baraldi, A. Balestero, M. Compare, E. Zio, A. Despujols, L. Benetrix : A new modeling

framework of component degradation. Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference

2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

458. R. Flage, T. Aven, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, "On imprecision in relation to uncertainty importance

measures", Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011),

Troyes, France, 18-22 September 2011, CDROM.

459. E.Zio, R.Piccinelli, G.Sansavini, "An All-Hazard Approach for the Vulnerability Analysis of

Critical Infrastructures", Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL


460. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, G. Sansavini, "Optimization of electrical grid protection by a differential

evolution algorithm" Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL


461. E. Kunzetsova, K. Culver and E. Zio, "Complexity and Vulnerability of SmartGrid Systems"

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011 (ESREL 2011), Troyes,


462. I.D. Lins, M.C. Moura, E. L Droguett, E. Zio, C.M. Jacinto, “Reliability prediction of oil wells

by support vector machine with particle swarm optimization for variable selection and

hyperparameter tuning”, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2011


463. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, E.Zio, “Challenges in Monte Carlo Simulation of Non-Llinear

Radioactive Contaminant Release Processes”, Proceedings of the International High Level

Radioactive Waste Conference, IHLRWC, Albuquerque, USA, April, 10-14, 2011, CD-ROM.

464. Kuznetsova, E., Li, Y., Culver, K., & Zio, E. 2011. A simulation model for adequacy

assessment of distributed generation. International Conference on Complex System Design and

Management (CSDM2011), Paris, December 2011, CD-ROM, pp. 1-12.

465. E. Zio, “Risk Importance Measures”, Safety and Risk Modeling and its Applications,

Springer, 2011.

466. Y. Li and E. Zio, “Uncertainty analysis of the adequacy assessment model of a distributed

generation system“, Renewable Energy, 2012, Vol. 41, pp. 235-244.

467. I.D. Lins, M. das Chagas. Moura, E. Zio and E. Lopez Droguett, “A Particle Swarm-Optimized

Support Vector Machine for Reliability Prediction”, International Journal of Quality and Reliability

Engineering, Vol. 28, pp. 141-158, 2012.

468. E. Zio, N. Pedroni, “Monte Carlo Simulation-based Sensitivity Analysis of the model of a

Thermal-Hydraulic Passive System”, accepted for publication on Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, doi:10.1016/j.ress.2011.08.006, 2011, ISSN 0951-8320, published by Elsevier Ltd.

469. F. Di Maio, J. Hu, P. Tse, K. Tsui, E. Zio, M. Pecht, “Ensemble-approaches for clustering

health status of oil sand pumps”, Expert Systems with Applications, F. Di Maio, J. Hu, P. Tse, K.

Tsui, E. Zio, M. Pecht, “Ensemble-approaches for clustering health status of oil sand pumps”,

Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 39, pp. 4847–4859, 2012, doi:

10.1016/j.eswa.2011.10.008.

470. E. Zio and T. Aven, ”Industrial Disasters: Extreme Events, Extremely Rare. Some Reflections

on the Treatment of Uncertainties in the Assessment of the Associated Risks”, Process Safety and

Environmental Protection, Vol. 91, pp. 31-45, 2013.

471. E. Zio, R. Piccinelli, M. Delfanti, V. Olivieri, M. Pozzi, "Application of the Load Flow and the

Random Flow Models for the Analysis of Power Transmission Networks", Reliability Engineering

and System Safety, Vol 103, July 2012, pages 102 – 109.

472. F. Cadini, D. Avram, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, "Subset Simulation of a reliability model for

radioactive waste repository performance assessment", Reliability Engineering and System Safety,

Volume 100, Apr. 2012, pp. 75-83, ISSN 0951-8320, published by Elsevier Ltd.

473. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, G. Sansavini, "Optimizing protections against cascades in network

systems: A modified binary differential evolution algorithm", Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, Vol 103, July 2012, pages 72 – 83.

474. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, C. Rocco, "Identifying groups of critical edges in a realistic electrical

network by multi-objective genetic algorithms", Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Vol 99,

March 2012, pages 172 – 177.

475. E. Zio, L.R. Golea, "Analyzing the topological, electrical and reliability characteristics of a

power transmission system for identifying its critical elements", Reliability Engineering and System

Safety, Vol 101, May 2012, pages 67 – 74.

476. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Fault Diagnosis and Failure Mode Estimation by a Data-Driven Fuzzy

Similarity Approach”, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 8, No.1, January

2012, pp. 49-66.

477. F. Di Maio, K..L. Tsui, E. Zio, “Combining Relevance Vector Machines and Exponential

Regression for Bearing RUL estimation”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Mechanical

Systems and Signal Processing, 31, 405–427, 2012.

478. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, A. Cherubini, E. Zio, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini, “Nominal range

sensitivity analysis of peak radionuclide concentrations in randomly heterogeneous aquifer”,

ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 47, 166-172.

479. F. Cadini, D. Avram, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Subset Simulation of a reliability model for

radioactive waste repository performance assessment”, RELIABILITY ENGINEERING &

SYSTEM SAFETY, 100, 75-83, 2012.

480. F. Cadini, E. Zio, G. Peloni, “Particle Filtering for the Detection of Fault Onset Time in

Hybrid Dynamic Systems With Autonomous Transitions”, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

RELIABILITY, 61, 130-139, 2012.

481. F. Cadini, J. De Sanctis, A. Cherubini, E. Zio, M. Riva, A. Guadagnini, “An integrated

simulation framework for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories”,

ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, 39, 1-8, 2012.



Effective Age", Quality and Reliability engineering Internantional. doi: 10.1002/qre.1388, 2012.

483. E. Zio, F. Di Maio, “Fatigue Crack Growth Estimation by Relevance Vector Machines”,

Expert Systems with Applications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.199, 2012.

484. Li Y.F., Zio E., “A Multi-State Power Model for Adequacy Assessment of Distributed

Generation via Universal Generating Function”. Reliability Engineering & Systems Safety.

Volume 106, pp 28–36, 2012

485. Ding Y., Zio E., Li Y.F., Cheng L., Wu Q. W., “Definition of Multi-state Weighted k-out-of-n:

F Systems”. International Journal of Performability Engineering. Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 217-

219, 2012.

486. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio “Unsupervised Clustering for Fault Diagnosis”, Prognostics and

System Health Management Conference (PHM2012), Beijing, China, 23-25 May 2012, CD-ROM.

487. Li Y.F., Lin Y.H., Zio E. Stochastic Modeling by Inhomogeneous Continuous Time Markov

Chains. EURO workshop on Stochastic Modelling, 2012, Paris, France, 30 May – 1 June, 2012. pp.

1.

488. E. Zio, M. Broggi, L. Golea, N. Pedroni, “Failure and Reliability Predictions by Locally

Recurrent Neural Networks”, in: V. Cozzani, E. De Rademaeker (Eds.), Chemical Engineering

Transactions – Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Safety & Environment in Process

& Power Industry (CISAP-5), Milano, Italy, 3-6 June 2012, Volume 26, pp. 117-122, published by

The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering-AIDIC, 2012, ISBN 978-88-95608-17-4, ISSN

1974-9791.

489. E. Zio, R. Piccinelli, G. Sansavini, A Framework For Ranking The Attack Susceptibility Of

Components Of Critical Infrastructures, in: V. Cozzani, E. De Rademaeker (Eds.), Chemical




88-95608-17-4, ISSN 1974-9791.

490. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, S. Sauco, E. Droguett, C. Magno, “Sensitivity Analysis of Scale

Deposition on Equipment of Oil Wells Plantsin: V. Cozzani, E. De Rademaeker (Eds.), Chemical




88-95608-17-4, ISSN 1974-9791.

491. P. Baraldi , F. Mangili , E. Zio , "Ensemble of Bootstrapped Models for the prediction of the

Remaining Useful Life of a Creeping Turbine Blade", 2012 IEEE International Conference on

PHM, June 18-21, 2012, Denver, Colorado. CD-ROM.

492. Ak R., Li Y. F., Vitelli V., Zio E. 2012. Estimation of wind speed prediction intervals by multi-

objective genetic algorithms and neural networks. Acts of the XLVI Scientific Meeting of the Italian

Statistical Society (SIS 2012), Rome, Italy, 20-22 June 2012 (pp. 1-4).

493. G. Gola, B. Nystad, P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, Health Assessment of Choke Valves

undergoing Erosion with a Hybrid Ensemble Approach, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International


http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.02.199


ROM.

494. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, E. Ferrario, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, “Propagation of aleatory and

epistemic uncertainties in the model for the design of a flood protection dike”, Proceedings of the



2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

495. Y.F. Li, E. Zio, G. Sansavini, L.R. Golea, “A Multi-Objective Memetic Optimization Method

for Power Network Cascading Failures Protection”, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International



ROM.

496. Enrico Zio, Lucia Roxana Golea, Karen Hsu, Chia-Hui Huang, Giovanni Sansavini, “Network

Analysis of a Real Power Transmission System”, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International



ROM.

497. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence to handle maintenance

models tainted with imprecision". Proceedings of the joint 2012 International Conference on

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability

Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

498. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, S. Sauco, E. Droguett, C. Magno, “Ensemble of Neural

Networks for Predicting Scale Deposition in Oil Well Plant Equipments”, Proceedings of the joint



pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

499. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, F. Di Maio & L. Pappaglione, R. Chevalier and R. Seraoui “Signal

Reconstruction During Operational Transients of Electrical Power Plants”, Proceedings of the joint



pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

500. Ferrario E., Zio E. 2012. A system-of-systems framework of Nuclear Power Plant Probabilistic

Seismic Hazard Analysis by Fault Tree analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation, Proceedings of the



2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

501, Li Y.F., Kumar M., Zio E. 2012. Petri-Net Simulation Model of a Nuclear Component

Degradation Process, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL

2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

502. Zio E., Mena R., Viveros P., Kristjanpoller F., Arata A. 2012. Simulation and Multi-Objective

Optimization of an Open-Pit Mine Truck-Shovel System by the Cross-Entropy Method, Proceedings

of the joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

(PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki, Finland, 25-

29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

503. Wang T.R., Liu T.,Tong J.J.,Zio E.,Zhao J.2012. Incorporate Modelling Uncertainty into the

Decision Making of Passive System Reliability Assessment, Proceedings of the joint 2012



pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

504. Isis Didier Lins, Marcio das Chagas Moura, Enrique Lopez Droguett, Enrico Zio, Carlos

Magno Jacinto, Uncertainty Assessment through Bootstrapped Support Vector Regression,

Proceedings of the joint 2012 International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and

Management (PSAM 11) & European Safety and RELiability Conference (ESREL 2012), Helsinki,

Finland, 25-29 June 2012, pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

505. Pablo Viveros, Enrico Zio, Christopher Nikulin, Raúl Stegmaier, Gloria Bravo, Integration of

root cause analysis and theory of inventive problem solving, Proceedings of the joint 2012



pp. 1-10, CD-ROM.

506. Torbjørn Bjerga, Terje Aven, Enrico Zio, An application of a new framework for model

(output) uncertainty analysis in risk assessment, Proceedings of the joint 2012 International



ROM.

507. Baraldi, P., Compare, M., Sauco S. Zio, E. Fatigue crack growth prognostics by Particle

Filtering application and Ensemble of Neural Network. 1st PHM European Conference, Dresden,

July 2012, CD-ROM.

508. P. Baraldi , F. Mangili , E. Zio , G. Gola , B. Nystad , A hybrid ensemble approach for process

parameter estimation in offshore oil platforms, FLINS, August 26-29, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

509. R. Razavi Far, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, ENSEMBLE OF NEURAL NETWORKS FOR

DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF FAULTS IN NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS, FLINS,

August 26-29, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.

510. Ak R., Li Y.F., Zio E. 2012. Estimation of prediction intervals of neural network models by a

multi-objective genetic algorithm. In Proc Flins 2012, Istanbul, Aug. 26-29, 2012.

511. Li Y.F., Zio E., Lin Y.H., Despujols A. 2012. A Multi-state Simulation Framework for

Modeling Degradation in Components of Energy Systems. Lambda Mu 18, Tours, France, 16-18,

Oct, 2012.

512. Couillet R., Zio E. 2012. A subspace approach to fault diagnostics in large power systems.

(Invited Paper) IEEE International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing

(ISCCSP'12), Rome, Italy, 2012 (pp. 1-4, CD-ROM).

513 E. Zio, “The Monte Carlo Simulation Method for System Reliability and Risk Analysis”,

Springer, 2012.

514. E. Zio, M. Compare, “A snapshot on maintenance modeling and applications”. Marine

Technology and Engineering 2 , pp. 1413-1425.

515. E. Zio, M. Compare, “Evaluating maintenance policies by quantitative modeling and

analysis”. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Volume 109, January 2013, Pages 53–65.

516. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, “Empirical comparison of methods for the hierarchical propagation of

hybrid uncertainty in risk assessment, in presence of dependences”, International Journal of

Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 20, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 509-557, ISSN

0218-4885, published by World Scientific Publishing.

517. R. Flage, T. Aven, P. Baraldi and E. Zio, "An imprecision importance measure for uncertainty

representations interpreted as lower and upper probabilities, with special emphasis on possibility

theory", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O, Journal of Risk and

Reliability, Vol. 226, Issue 6, pp. 656-665, 2012.

518. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "A Kalman Filter-based Ensemble Approach for Turbine Creep

Prognostics". IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol 61, Issue 4, pp. 966-977, 2012.

519. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, L. Pappaglione, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, “Condition Monitoring of Electrical

Power Plant Components During Operational Transients”, Proceedings of the Institution of

Mechanical Engineers, Part O, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Vol. 226, Issue 6, pp. 568-583, 2012.

521. R. Razavi-Far, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, “Dynamic Weighting Ensembles for Incremental Learning

and Diagnosing New Concept Class Faults in Nuclear Power Systems” IEEE Transactions On

Nuclear Science, Vol. 59 (5), pp. 2520-2530, 2012.

522. Li Y.F., Zio E. 2012. Uncertainty Analysis of the Adequacy Assessment Model of a Distributed

Generation System. Renewable Energy. Volume 41, pp 235–244.

523. Li Y.F., Sansavini G., Zio E. Non-Dominated Sorting Binary Differential Evolution for the

Multi-Objective Optimization of Cascading Failures Protection in Complex Networks. Reliability

Engineering & System Safety. 111, pp. 195-205, 2013.

524. Zio E.,Ferrario E. A framework for the system-of-systems analysis of the risk for a safety-

critical plant exposed to external events. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 2013. V. 114,

pp. 114-125.

525. Fang Y.-P., Zio E. Unsupervised spectral clustering for hierarchical modelling and criticality

analysis of complex networks. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Volume 116, 2013, pp. 64-

74.

526. Fang, Y.-P., Zio, E. Hierarchical Modeling by Recursive Unsupervised Spectral Clustering and

Network Extended Importance Measures to Analyze the Reliability Characteristics of Complex

Network Systems. American Journal of Operations Research, 3, pp. 101-112, 2013.



Wiley-Blackwell.

528. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2013): Predicting time series of railway speed restrictions with

time-dependent machine learning techniques, Expert Systems with Applications, 40 (15), 6033–

6040.

529. Fink, O., E. Zio (2013) Semi-Markov processes with semi-regenerative states for the

availability analysis of chemical process plants with storage units, Proceedings of the Institution of

Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 227( 3), 279-289.

530. Zhao Wei, Tao Tao, Ding ZhuoShu, Enrico Zio, A dynamic particle filter-support vector

regression method for reliability prediction, Reliability Engineering and System Safety 119 (2013)

109–116.

531. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2013): Extreme learning machines for predicting operation

disruption events in railway systems, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability


532. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2013): Anticipating railway operation disruption events based

on the analysis of discrete-event diagnostic data, PHM 2013, Chemical Engineering Transactions,

33.

533. Yan-Fu Li, Yi Ding, Enrico Zio. 2013. Hybrid Universal Generating Function for the

Reliability Assessment of Multi-State Systems under Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties.



534. Ronay Ak, Yan-Fu Li, Valeria Vitelli, Enrico Zio. 2013. A Genetic Algorithm-and-Neural

Network Technique for Predicting Wind Power under Uncertainty. PHM 2013, Chemical


535. Yi-Ping Fang, Enrico Zio. 2013. Optimal Production Facility Allocation for Failure Resilient

Critical Infrastructures. Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL),


536. Ferrario E., Pedroni N., Zio E. Line sampling and Fuzzy Interval Analysis for the propagation

of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in risk models. Proceedings of the European Safety and


537. Tairan Wang, Vincent Mousseau, Enrico Zio. 2013. A Hierarchical Decision Making

Framework for Vulnerability Analysis. Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability


538. Chung-Kung Lo, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, Bayesian probabilistic analysis of a nuclear power plant

small loss of coolant event tree model with possibilistic parameters. Proceedings of the European

Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October,

2013.

539. Yan-Hui Lin, Yan-Fu Li, Enrico Zio. 2013. Multi-State Physics Model for the Reliability

Assessment of a Component under Degradation Processes and Random Shocks. Proceedings of the


October, 2013.

540. Jie Liu, Redouane Seraoui, Valeria Vitelli, Enrico Zio. 2013. Probabilistic Support Vector

Regression for Short-Term Prediction of Power Plants Equipment. PHM 2013, Chemical


541. Jie Liu, Valeria Vitelli, Redouane Seraoui, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio. 2013. Short-Term

Prediction for Nuclear Power Plant Failure Scenarios Using an Ensemble-based Approach.



542. Ronay Ak, Valeria Vitelli, Enrico Zio. 2013. Uncertainty Modeling in Wind Power Generation

Prediction by Neural Networks and Bootstrapping. Proceedings of the European Safety and


543. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, "Bayesian update of the parameters of probability

distributions for risk assessment in a level-2 hybrid probabilistic-possibilistic uncertainty

framework", Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Amsterdam,

Netherlands, 29 September – 2 October, 2013.

544. R. Mena, Y.F. Li, M. Hennebel, C. Ruiz, E. Zio, ""Optimal sizing and allocation of distributed

generation for reliable energy distribution accounting for uncertainty"", Proceedings of the


October, 2013.

545. Li Y.F., Zio E., Lin Y.H. Methods of Solutions of Inhomogeneous Continuous Time Markov

Chains for Degradation Process Modeling, Applied Reliability Engineering and Risk Analysis.

Probabilistic Models and Statistical Inference. Eds. Alex Karagrigoriou, Anatoly Lisnianski, Andre

Kleyner, Ilia Frenkel. Publisher Wiley, 2013.

546. E. Kuznetsova, Y.F. Li, C. Ruiz, E. Zio, Reliable microgrid energy management under

environmental uncertainty and mechanical failures: an agent-based modeling and robust

optimization approach. Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL),


547. Rocco C.M., Zio E.: “Global sensitivity analysis in a Multi-state Physics Model of Component

Degradation based on a hybrid State-Space Enrichment and Polynomial Chaos Expansion

approach”, acepted IEEE Transaction on Reliability.

548. Aven T., Zio E., Model output uncertainty in risk assessment, International Journal of

Performability Engineering Vol. 9, No. 5, September 2013, p.475-486.

549. F. Di Maio, E. Zio, “Failure Prognostics by a Data-Driven Similarity Based Approach”,

International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol 20 (2), No.1, pp.1-17, 2013

550. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, “Unsupervised Clustering for Fault Diagnosis in Nuclear Power

Plant Components”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 6, No. 4,

July 2013, pp. 764-777.



Effective Age", Quality and Reliability engineering Internantional, 29, 385–405, 2013.

552. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, ""Uncertainty analysis in degradation modeling for

maintenance policy assessment"", Proc IMechE Part O: J Risk and Reliability, Volume 227 Issue, 3

June 2013, pp. 55.

553. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, “Component ranking by birnbaum importance in presence of

epistemic uncertainty in failure event probabilities”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 62 (1),

pp. 37-48, 2013.

554. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Maintenance policy performance assessment in presence of

imprecision based on Dempster–Shafer Theory of Evidence", Information Sciences, Volume 245, 1

October 2013, Pages 112-131,

555. P. Baraldi, F. Cadini, F. Mangili, E. Zio, Model-based and data-driven prognostics under

different available information, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Volume 32, April 2013, Pages

66-79.

556. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "Investigation of uncertainty treatment capability of model-

based and data-driven prognostic methods using simulated data", 2013, Reliability Engineering and

System Safety, 112, pp. 94-108.

557. R. Flage, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, T. Aven, "Probability and Possibility-Based Representations of

Uncertainty in Fault Tree Analysis", Risk Analysis, Vol. 33 (1), pp. 121-133.



Wiley-Blackwell.

559. Cadini, F., De Sanctis, J., Bertoli, I., Zio, E.,"Monte Carlo simulation of radionuclide migration

in fractured rock for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories", 2013,

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 111, pp. 241-247.

560. Cadini, F., De Sanctis, J., Bertoli, I., Zio, E.,"Upscaling of a dual-permeability Monte Carlo

simulation model for contaminant transport in fractured networks by genetic algorithm parameter

identification", 2013, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 27, 2, pp. 505-516.

561. Ciriello, V., Di Federico, V., Riva, M., Cadini, F., De Sanctis, J., Zio, E., Guadagnini,

A.,"Polynomial chaos expansion for global sensitivity analysis applied to a model of radionuclide

migration in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer", 2013, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk

Assessment,27, 4, pp. 945-954.

562. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, S. Al-Dahihi, “Condition-Based Maintenance Modelling and

Decision Making taking into account Uncertainties”, GDRR 2013 - Third Symposium on Games

and Decisions in Reliability and Risk, Kinsale, Ireland, 8-10 July 2013.

563. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, “Transients Analysis of a Nuclear

Power Plant Component for Fault Diagnosis”, Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health

Management Conference (PHM‐2013), Milan, Italy, 8-11 September 2013.

564. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, D. Genini, "A fuzzy similarity based method for signal

reconstruction during plant transients", Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management

Conference (PHM?2013), Milan, Italy, 8-11 September 2013.

565. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, F. Mangili, E. Zio,“A Belief Function Theory Method for Prognostics

in Clogging Filters”, Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management Conference


566. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “Minimal Cut Sets Identification by Hierarchical

Differential Evolution”, PSA 2013, the International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Analysis, 22-27 September 2013, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.


vibration signals for identifying anomalous conditions in a nuclear turbine”, accepted, PHM2013

Conference, New Orleans, 7-14 October 2013.

568. P. Baraldi , F. Cadini , F. Mangili , E. Zio, "Prognostics under different available

information"", Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management Conference


569. P. Baraldi, F. Barbisotti, R. Capanna, S. Colombo, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, "Assessment of the

Performance of a Fully Electric Vehicle Subsystem in Presence of a Prognostic and Health

Monitoring System", Proceedings of Prognostics and System Health Management Conference


570. T. Aven, P. Baraldi, R. Flage, E. Zio, SRA Annual Meeting, 8-11 December 2013.

571. F. Cadini, E. Zio, D. Avram, A combination of gaussian processes and principal component

analysis for prediction of radionuclide migration, Proceedings of the European Safety and


572. E. Borgonovo, F. Cadini, E. Zio, Global Sensitivity Analysis from Given Data: An Application

to a model for radionuclide migration in a randomly heterogeneous aquifer, Proceedings of the


October, 2013.

573. Fang, C., Marle, F. and Zio, E., “An Integrated Framework for Risk Response Planning Under

Resource Constraints in Large Engineering Projects”, IEEE Trans. On Engineering Management,

Vol. 60, No. 3, 2013, pp. 627-639.

574. P. Baraldi, R. Flage, T. Aven, E. Zio, “Uncertainty in Risk Assessment”, Wiley, 2014.

575. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, S. Sauco, E. Zio "Ensemble Neural Network-Based Particle Filtering

for Prognostics", Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 41 (1-2) , 2013, pp. 288-300.

576. G. Ripamonti, G. Lonati, P. Baraldi, F. Cadini, E. Zio, “Uncertainty propagation in a model for

the estimation of the ground level concentration of dioxin/furans emitted from a waste gasification

plant”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 120, pp. 98-105, 2013.

577. G. Sansavini, R.Piccinelli, L.R.Golea, E.Zio, "A stochastic framework for uncertainty analysis

in electric power transmission systems with wind generation", Renewable Energy, Vol 64, pp. 71-

81, 2014.

578. M. Compare, E. Zio, “Evaluating maintenance policies by quantitative modeling and analysis”.

Reliability engineering and system safety, Volume 109, Pages 53-65, January 2013.

579. Zio, E. and Sansavini, G., “Vulnerability of Smart Grids with Variable Generation and

Consumption: a System of Systems Perspective”, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and

Cybernetics: Systems, Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 477 – 487, 2013.

580. Z. Yang, X.X. Chen, Y.F. Li, E. Zio, R. Kang, "Smart Electricity Meter Reliability Prediction

based on Accelerated Degradation Testing and Modeling", In International Journal of Electrical

Power and Energy Systems: 1-30, 2013.

581. J. Liu, R. Seraoui, V. Vitelli, E. Zio, "Nuclear power plant components condition monitoring

by probabilistic support vector machine." In Annals of Nuclear Energy, 56: 23-33, 2013.

582. E. Kuznetsova, Y.F. Li, C. Ruiz, E. Zio, K. Bell, G. Ault, "Reinforcement learning for

microgrid energy management." In Energy, 59: 133-146, 2013.

583. Y.F. Li, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, "A Memetic Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Method

for Environmental Power Unit Commitment." In IEEE Transactions on Power Systems: 1-10, 2013.

584. R. Ak, Y.F. Li, V. Vitelli, E. Zio, "NSGA-II-trained neural network approach to the estimation

of prediction intervals of scale deposition rate in oil & gas equipment." In Expert Systems with

Applications, 40(4) : 1205-1212, 2013.

585. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, E. Ferrario, A. Pasanisi, M. Couplet, "Hierarchical propagation of

probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertainty in the parameters of a risk model." In Computers &

Structures, Online : 1-15, 2013.

586. I. Prodan, E. Zio, "An optimization-based control approach for reliable microgrid energy

management under uncertainties." In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Integration of

Stochastic Energy in Power Systems (ISEPS 2013), Bucharest (Roumanie) : 1-4, 2013.

587. E. Zio, “Modern RAMS analysis and maintenance engineering for modern industry”,

Proceedings of the WMF 2013, World Maintenance Forum 2013, Lugano, Switzerland, 4-6, 2013.

588. E. Zio, “Complex systems reliability: a complex challenge for reliability analysts”, Proceedings

of MMR 2013, Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Stellenbosch, South Africa, June 30-July 4,

2013.

589. Zhao Wei, Tao Tao, Enrico Zio. 2013. Parameters Tuning in Support Vector Regression for

Reliability Forecasting. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 33, 523-528.

590. Zohre Alipour, Mohammad Ali Saniee Monfared and Enrico Zio, Comparing topological and

reliability-based vulnerability analysis of Iran power transmission network, Proceedings of the

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability published online 24

September 2013, DOI: 10.1177/1748006X13501652.

591. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann: Quantifying the reliability of fault classifiers, accepted for

publication in Journal of Information Sciences, 266, 65-74, 2014.

592. Fink, O., E. Zio, U. Weidmann (2014): Predicting component reliability and level of

degradation with complex-valued neural networks, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 121,

198–206, 2014.

593. Razavi-Far, R., Zio, E., Palade, V. 'Efficient residuals pre-processing for diagnosing multi-

class faults in a doubly fed induction generator, under missing data scenarios', Expert Systems with

Applications 41 (2014) 6386–6399.

594. Sheng Hong, Zheng Zhou, Enrico Zio, Kan Hong, Condition assessment for the performance

degradation of bearing based on a combinatorial feature extraction method, Digital Signal

Processing 27 (2014), 159–166.

595. M. Rigamonti, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, D. Astigarraga, A. Galarza, "A Particle Filtering-Based

Approach for the Prediction of the Remaining Useful Life of an Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor",

The Second European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2014 (PHME

2014), Nantes, France, 8th – 10th July 2014,

596. S. Al-Dahidi, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, "Quantification of Signal Reconstruction

Uncertainty in Fault Detection Systems", The Second European Conference of the Prognostics and


378.

597. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, "A Prognostic Approach Based on Particle Filtering and

Optimized Tuning Kernel Smoothing", The Second European Conference of the Prognostics and


193.

598. D. McDonnell, N. Balfe, S. Al-Dahidi, G.E. O’Donnell, "A Model for Human-Centred

Decision Support System Design in PHM", The Second European Conference of the Prognostics

and Health Management Society 2014 (PHME 2014), Nantes, France, 8th – 10th July 2014, Pages

585-600.

599. Sansavini G. and Zio E., Vulnerability of Transmission Grids with Variable Generation and

Consumption: a Complex Network Systems Perspective, Second International Conference on

Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the sixth International

Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA), 13-16 July 2014, Liverpool, UK, pp.

658 – 667.

600. Zio E., Vulnerability and risk analysis of critical infrastructures, Second International

Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the sixth

International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA), 13-16 July 2014,

Liverpool, UK (invited keynote lecture).

601. P. Baraldi, E. Zio, F. Mangili, G. Gola, B.H. Nystad, "Ensemble of kernel regression models

for assessing the health state of choke valves in offshore oil platforms", International Journal of

Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 7(2), pp. 225-241.

602. P. Baraldi, M. Compare, E. Zio, "Uncertainty treatment in expert information systems for

maintenance policy assessment", Applied Soft Computing Journal, 22, pp. 297-310, 2014



604. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, G. Gola, B. H. Nystad, E. Zio “A Hybrid Ensemble-Based Approach for

Process Parameter Estimation and Degradation Assessment in Offshore Oil Platforms”, Vol. 10(5),

pp. 497-509, 2014

605. F. Di Maio, G. Nicola, E. Zio, Y.Yu, “Ensemble-based sensitivity analysis of a best estimate

thermal hydraulic model: application to a Passive Containment Cooling System of an AP1000

Nuclear Power Plant”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 73, 200–210, 2014.

606. S. Al-Dahidi, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A novel fault detection system taking into account

uncertainties in the reconstructed signals”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Volume 73, Pages 131–144,

2014.

607. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “Hierarchical Differential Evolution for Minimal Cut Sets

Identification: Application to Nuclear Safety Systems”, European Journal of Operational Research,

Volume 238, Issue 2, Pages 645–652, 2014.

608. M. Compare, E. Zio, “Predictive Maintenance by Risk Sensitive Particle Filtering”, IEEE

reliability transactions, Vol. 63 (1), pp. 134-143, 2014.

609. Elisa Ferrario, Enrico Zio. Assessing nuclear power plant safety and recovery from earthquakes

using a system-of-systems approach Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2014, 125 (SI),

pp.103-116.

610. F. Cadini, F. Santos, E. Zio (2014). Passive systems failure probability estimation by the meta-

AK-IS2 algorithm. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 277, 203-211.

611. F. Cadini, F. Santos, E. Zio (2014). An improved adaptive kriging-based importance technique

for sampling multiple failure regions of low probability. Reliability Engineering and System Safety,

131, 109-117.

612. F. Cadini, A. Gioletta, E. Zio (2014). Performance assessment of a radioactive waste repository

by adaptive kriging and importance sampling monte carlo simulation. In: Second International

Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM 2014). Liverpool, UK,

13-16 July 2014, 2104-2114.

613. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, "A prognostics approach to nuclear component degradation

modeling based on Gaussian Process Regression", Progress in Nuclear Energy, 78, pp. 141-154,

2015.


time series by fuzzy similarity”, Applied Soft Computing Journal, 26, pp. 1-9, 2015.

615. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, and E. Zio, “A particle filtering and kernel smoothing-based

approach for new design component prognostics” Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol.

134, pp. 19–31, Oct. 2014.

616. R. Flage, T. Aven, E. Zio, P. Baraldi, "Concerns, Challenges, and Directions of Development

for the Issue of Representing Uncertainty in Risk Assessment", Risk Analysis, Vol. 34(7), pp. 1196-

1207, 2014.

617. Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Vasile Palade, Enrico Zio, “Invasive weed classification”. Published

online on 30 July 2014 in Neural Computing and Applications.

618. Tairan Wang, Vincent Mousseau, Nicola Pedroni, Enrico Zio. Assessing the Performance of a

Classification-Based Vulnerability Analysis Model, Risk Analysis, Wiley-Blackwell: No

OnlineOpen, 2014, pp.16.

619. Sheng Hong, Zheng Zhou, Enrico Zio, Wenbin Wang, “An adaptive method for health trend

prediction of rotating bearings”, Digital Signal Processing, Volume 35, December 2014, Pages 117–

123.

620. Ferrario E., Zio E. Goal Tree Success Tree–Dynamic Master Logic Diagram and Monte Carlo

simulation for the safety and resilience assessment of a multistate system of systems. Engineering

Structures. February 2014. V. 59, pp. 411-433.

621. Z. Yang, Y.X. Chen, Y.F. Li, E. Zio, R. Kang. 2014. Smart Electricity Meter Reliability

Prediction based on Accelerated Degradation Testing and Modeling. International Journal of

Electrical Power & Energy Systems. 56, 209-219.

622. Y.F. Li, Y. Ding, E. Zio. Random Fuzzy Extension of the Universal Generating Function

Approach for the Reliability Assessment of Multi-State Systems under Aleatory and Epistemic

Uncertainties. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 63(1), 13 - 25.

623. Kuznetsova, E., Li, Y. F., Ruiz, C., & Zio, E. An integrated framework of agent-based

modelling and robust optimization for microgrid energy management. Applied Energy. 129, 70 - 88

624. Mena, R., Hennebel, M., Li, Y. F., Ruiz, C., & Zio, E. (2014). A risk-based simulation and

multi-objective optimization framework for the integration of distributed renewable generation and

storage. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 778-793.

625. I. Prodan, E. Zio : A model predictive control framework for reliable microgrid energy

management. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Vol. 61, pp. 399 - 409,

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2014.03.017, October 2014.

626. Kuznetsova, E., Ruiz, C., Li, Y.-F., & Zio, E. Analysis of robust optimization for decentralized


Energy Systems, Vol. 64, pp. 815–832.

627. C.K. Lo, N. Pedroni, E. Zio : Treating Uncertainties in a Nuclear Seismic Probabilistic Risk

Assessment by Means of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence, RESS, Vol. 46, pp 11-26

628. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, Y. Li and E. Zio. Self-adaptable Hierarchical Clustering Analysis and

Differential Evolution for Optimal Integration of Renewable Distributed Generation. Applied

Energy, vol. 133, pp. 388-402, 2014."

629. F. Di Maio, G. Nicola, Y. Yu, E. Zio, “Sensitivity Analysis and Failure Damage Domain

Identification of the Passive Containment Cooling System of an AP1000 Nuclear Reactor”,

Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM12, Honolulu, USA, 22-24

June, 2014.

630. Giovanni Sansavini, Marco Buldrini, Michele Compare, Lorenzo Beretta, Lucia Legnani,

Enrico Zio, Risk assessment related to the catastrophic rupture of a LOX cryogenic tank,


September 2014.

631. Michele Compare, Lucia Legnani, Enrico Zio, MUSTADEPT: A tool for the analysis of

industrial equipment degradation, Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference,

ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

632. F. Di Maio, Michele Compare, S. Mattafirri, Enrico Zio, A double-loop Monte Carlo approach

for Part Life Data Base reconstruction and scheduled maintenance improvement, Proceedings of the

European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014.

633. M. Rigamonti, S. Rantala, "Hilbert-Huang transforms for fault detection and degradation

assessment in electrical motors", Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications -


September 2014, pp. 939-944.

634. S. Al-Dahidi, "The Use of Self Organizing Maps for Diagnosing Faults in Motor Bearings",

Safety and Reliability: Methodology and Applications - Proceedings of the European Safety and

Reliability Conference, ESREL 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2014, pp. 895-902.

635. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, P. Turati, E. Zio, “A modified Auto Associatie Kernel Regression

method for robust signal recostruction in nuclear power plant components”, Safety and Reliability:

Methodology and Applications, Proceedings of the ESREL 2014 Conference, Wroclaw, Polonia,

14-18 Settembre 2014, pp. 917 – 922.

636. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, A. Galarza, D. Astigarraga, I. Unanue, A.

Ruddle, S. Rantal, "A Procedure for Practical Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Fully Electric

Vehicles for Enhanced Safety and Reliability", HEVC 2014

637. B. Sedano, D. Astigarraga, P. Baraldi, M. Rigamonti, E. Zio, "Assessment of the improvement

in the safety and reliability of a Fully Electric Vehicle achieved by embedding an Electrical

Powertrain Prognostic and Health Monitoring System", European Electric Vehicle Congress

Brussels, December 2014, (EEVC 2014).

638. X. Liu, I. Prodan, E. Zio. On the Resilience Analysis of Interconnected Systems by a Set-

Theoretic Approach. European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2014). 14-18 September,

2014. Wrocław, Poland.

639. X. Liu, I. Prodan, E. Zio. Resilience Analysis of Interconnected Systems by a Set-Theoretic

Approach. Lambda-Mu 19 Conference. 21-23 Octobre, 2014. Dijion, France.

640. R. Mena, M. Hennebel, and E. Zio. Sensitivity Analysis of a Simulation Model for Evaluating

Renewable Distributed Generation on a Power Network. In: Proceedings 13th International

Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems PMAPS; IEEE, Durham, England,

2014.

641. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li E. Zio. Dynamic Reliability Models for Multiple Dependent Competing

Degradation Processes. European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2014). 14-18

September, 2014. Wrocław, Poland.

642. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li E. Zio. Modeling Multiple Dependent Competing Degradations Under

Epistemic Uncertainty Via Pdmp. Lambda-Mu 19 Conference. 21-23 Octobre, 2014. Dijion, France.

643. J. Liu, V. Valeria, R. Seraoui, E. Zio. Dynamic Weighted PSVR-Based Ensembles for

Prognostics of Nuclear Components. 2nd European Conference of the PHM Society - PHME'14.

July 8-10, 2014. Nantes, France.

644. J. Liu, V. Valeria, R. Seraoui, E. Zio. An Efficient Online Learning Approach For Support

Vector Regression. FLINS, Brazil, 2014.

645. I. Prodan and E. Zio. On the microgrid energy management under a predictive control

framework. In the Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. pp.

111--118, 8-10 October, Antibes, France, 2014.

646. Y.F. Li, E. Zio. 2014. A Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Approach for non-Homogeneous

Redundancy Allocation in Series-Parallel Multi-State Systems. ICRMS 2014. Guangzhou, China,

6–8 Aug., 2014.

647. Ferrario E., Pedroni N., Zio E. Analysis of the robustness of critical infrastructures within a

multistate systems-of-systems framework in the presence of epistemic uncertainties. Accepted for

publication in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk

Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) and Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty,

Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA2014). University of Liverpool, UK, 13-16 July 2014.

648. Y.P. Fang, N. Pedroni, E. Zio. Optimal Capacity Allocation for a Failure Resilient Electrical

Infrastructure. In the Proceedings of 16th International Dependency and Structure Modelling

Conference (DSM 2014). Paris, France, July 2 – 4, 2014.

649. Y.P. Fang, N. Pedroni, E. Zio. Comparing Topological and Physical Approaches to Network

Modelling for the Optimization of Failure Resilient Electrical Infrastructures. In the Proceedings of

the Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management

(ICVRAM2014) and Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty, Modeling and Analysis

(ISUMA2014). University of Liverpool, UK, 13-16 July 2014.

650. Tao Tao, Wei Zhao, Yanfu Li, Enrico Zio. 2014. Condition-based component replacement of

the pneumatic valve with the unscented particle filter.. IEEE PHM 2014. Zhangjiajie city, China.

651. Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Vasile Palade, Enrico Zio,: Optimal detection of new classes of faults by

an invasive weed optimization method. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, in the

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, pp. 91-98,

July 6-11, Beijing China, 2014.

652. Chaoran Liu, Daqing Li, Enrico Zio, Rui Kang, A Modeling Framework for System

Restoration from Cascading Failures, PLOS ONE, pages 1-17, |DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0112363

December 4, 2014.

653. T. Aven and E. Zio, Foundational Issues in Risk Assessment and Risk Management, Risk

Analysis, Vol. 34(7), pp. 1164-1172, 2014.

654. Yi-Ping Fang, Nicola Pedroni, Enrico Zio. Comparing Network-Centric and Power Flow

Models for the Optimal Allocation of Link Capacities in a Cascade-Resilient Power Transmission

Network IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE, 2014, PP (99), pp.1 - 12.




852–860.

656. Sansavini, G.; Zio, E., Vulnerability of transmission grids with variable generation and

consumption: a complex network systems perspective, Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk.

Quantification, Mitigation, and Management. Second International Conference on Vulnerability and

Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty

Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA) Location: Liverpool, UK Date: 13-16 July 2014.

657. E. Zio, Integrated deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment: Concepts, challenges,

research directions, Nuclear Engineering and Design 280 (2014) 413–419.

658. Torbjørn Bjerga, Terje Aven, Enrico Zio. An illustration of the use of an approach for treating

model uncertainties in risk assessment Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, 2014,

125, pp.46 – 53.

659. Yan-Hui Lin, Yan-Fu Li, Enrico Zio. Fuzzy Reliability Assessment of Systems with Multiple

Dependent Competing Degradation Processes IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Institute of

Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, PP (99), 11 p.

660. Yan-Hui Lin, Yan-Fu Li, Enrico Zio. Integrating Random Shocks Into Multi-State Physics

Models of Degradation Processes for Component Reliability Assessment IEEE Transactions on

Reliability, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014, pp.28.

661. Sheng Hong, Hongqi Yang, Enrico Zio, Ning Huang. A novel dynamics model of fault

propagation and equilibrium analysis in complex dynamical communication network Applied

Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, 2014, 247, pp.1021-1029




852–860.

663. Kwangpil Chang, Sungteak Kim, Daejun Chang, Junkeon Ahn, Enrico Zio, Uncertainty

analysis for target SIL determination in the offshore industry, Journal of Loss Prevention in the

Process Industries, Volume 34, March 2015, Pages 151–162.

664. Olga Fink, Enrico Zio, Ulrich Weidmann, Development and Application of Deep Belief

Networks for Predicting Railway Operation Disruptions, International Journal of Performability

Engineering, Volume 11, N. 2, March 2015, pp. 121-134.

665. Y.-H. Lin, Y.-F. Li, E. Zio. Integrating Random Shocks Into Multi-State Physics Models of

Degradation Processes for Component Reliability Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Reliability.

64(1): 154-166 (2015).

666. R. Rocchetta, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. Risk Assessment and Risk-Cost Optimization of Distributed

Power Generation Systems Considering Extreme Weather Conditions. Reliability Engineering &

System Safety 136 (2015): 47-61.

667. E. Kuznetsova, C.Ruiz, Y-F.Li, E. Zio. Analysis of robust optimization for decentralized


Energy Systems. 64 (2015), 815 – 832.


vibration signals for identifying anomalous conditions in a nuclear turbine”, Journal of Intelligent

and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), 28(4), pp. 1723–1731, 2015. DOI:10.3233/IFS-141459.

669. P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, M. Rigamonti, R. Seraoui, “Clustering for unsupervised fault

diagnosis in nuclear turbine shut-down transients”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing,

Volume 58, pp. 160–178, 2015.

670. P. Baraldi, L. Podofillini, L. Mkrtchyan, E. Zio, V.N. Dang, “Comparing the treatment of

uncertainty in Bayesian networks and fuzzy expert systems used for a human reliability analysis

application”, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 138, pp. 176-193, 2015.

671. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “A Computational framework for Prime Implicants

Identification in non-coherent Dynamic Systems”, Risk Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 1, 142–156, 2015.


time series by fuzzy similarity”, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 26, 1–9, 2015.

673. F. Di Maio, D. Colli, E. Zio, L. Tao, J. Tong, “A Multi-State Physics Modeling Approach for

the Reliability Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants Piping Systems”, Annals of Nuclear Energy, 80,

151–165, 2015.

674. P. Baraldi, P. Turati, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, “Robust signal reconstruction for condition

monitoring of industrial components via a modified Auto Associative Kernel Regression method”,

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 60, pp. 29–44, 2015.

675. F. Di Maio, G. Nicola, E. Zio, Y.Yu, “Finite Mixture Models for sensitivity analysis of

Thermal Hydraulic Codes for Passive Safety Systems safety Analysis”, Nuclear Engineering and

Design, 289, pp. 144–15.

676. F. Di Maio, S. Baronchelli, E. Zio, “A Visual Interactive Method for Prime Implicants

Identification”, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 64, Issue 2, 539-549, 2015.

677. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, R. Seraoui, "A Novel Ensemble Clustering for

Operational Transients Classification with Application to a Nuclear Power Plant Turbine",

International Journal of Prognostics & Health Management, vol. 6 (001), pp. 1-21.

678. M. Compare, P. Baraldi, P. Turati, E. Zio. Particle Filtering for Fault Detection in Multi Model

Systems. Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 40, pp.12-24, 2015.

679. P. Baraldi, F. Mangili, E. Zio, “A belief function theory based approach to combining different

representation of uncertainty in prognostics”, Information Sciences, 303, pp. 134-149, 2015.

680. M. Compare, E. Zio, “Genetic algorithms in the framework of Dempster-Shafer Theory of

Evidence for maintenance optimization problems”, IEEE reliability transactions, 64 (2), pp. 645-

660.

681. M. Compare, F. Martini, E. Zio. Genetic Algorithms for Condition Based Maintenance

Optimization with uncertain fitnesses, European Journal of Operation Research, 244 (2), pp. 611-

623.

682. Y.F. Li, S. Valla, E. Zio 2015 Reliability Assessment of Generic Geared Wind Turbines by

GTST-MLD Model and Monte Carlo Simulation Renewable Energy, 83, 222-233.

683. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, 2015, Hybrid Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis of the Model of a Twin-

Jet Aircraft, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (Special Issue on NASA Langley

Multidisciplinary Uncertainty Quantification Challenge), 12, 73-96.

684. Y.-P. Fang, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, 2015, Optimization of Cascade-Resilient Electrical

Infrastructures and its Validation by Power Flow Modelling, Risk Analysis, an International

Journal, 35, 4, 594–607.

685. E. Ferrario, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, 2015, Analysis of the robustness and recovery of critical

infrastructures by Goal Tree Success Tree – Dynamic Master Logic Diagram, within a multi-state

system-of-systems framework, in the presence of epistemic uncertainty, ASCE-ASME Journal of

Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering .


microgrid energy management under uncertainties , Energy, 91, 20-34.

687. R. Ak, V. Vitelli and E. Zio, 2015, An Interval-Valued Neural Network Approach

for Uncertainty Quantification in Short-Term Wind Speed Prediction, IEEE Transactions On Neural

Networks And Learning Systems, Vol. 26, No. 11, November 2015, 2787 – 2800.



556–562.

689. Lins, I. D., Droguett, E. L., das Chagas Moura, M., Zio, E., & Jacinto, C. M. (2015).

Computing confidence and prediction intervals of industrial equipment degradation by bootstrapped

support vector regression. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 137, 120-128.

690. Zhao, Wei, Tao Tao, and Enrico Zio. "System reliability prediction by support vector

regression with analytic selection and genetic algorithm parameters selection." Applied Soft

Computing 30 (2015): 792-802.

691. Yu, Y., Ma, G., Hao, Z., Wang, S., Niu, F., & Zio, E. (2015). Correlation analysis for screening

key parameters for passive system reliability analysis. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 77, 23-29.

692. Cadini, Francesco, A. Gioletta, and Enrico Zio. "Improved metamodel-based importance

sampling for the performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories." Reliability Engineering

& System Safety 134 (2015): 188-197.

693. Wang, T. R., Mousseau, V., Pedroni, N., & Zio, E. (2015). Assessing the Performance of a

Classification‐Based Vulnerability Analysis Model. Risk Analysis, 35(9), 1674-1689.

694. Luo, P., Sansavini, G., & Zio, E. (2015). Reliability analysis of smart grid communication

network by simulation. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 22(2), 119-133.





556–562.


microgrid energy management under uncertainties, Energy, 91, 20-34.

698. F. Cannarile, Compare, M., Di Maio, F., Zio, E., "Handling reliability big data: a similarity-

based approach for clustering a large fleet of assets" European Safety and Reliability Conference

2015 (ESREL 2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

699. F. Cannarile, Compare, M., Mattafirri, S., Carlevaro, F., Zio, E., "Comparison of Weibayes and

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for the reliability analysis of turbine nozzle components with

right censored data only" European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015 (ESREL 2015), 7-10

September, Zurich, Switzerland.

700. M. Compare, A. Mancuso, T. Laasko, A. Salo, E. Zio, Identification of the most critical pipes

in the presence of imprecise information, European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015 (ESREL

2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

701. M. Compare, E.Zio: A General Approach for Automating FMECA. European Safety and

Reliability Conference 2015 (ESREL 2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

702. M. Rigamonti, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, A. Alessi, D. Astigarraga, A. Galarza, "A Self-Organizing

Map-Based Monitoring System for Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors Operating in Fully Electric

Vehicle", pp. 1-9, 2015 Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, San

Diego, California, United States, 18th - 24th October 2015.

703. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, and R. Seraoui, Unsupervised Ensemble

Clustering for Transients Classification in a Nuclear Power Plant Turbine, Safety and Reliability:

Methodology and Applications - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference,

ESREL 2015, Zürich, Switzerland, 7th – 10th, September 2015, pp. 2339-2347.

704. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, Ensemble Clustering for Fault Diagnosis in

Industrial Plants, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 43, pp. 1225-1230, International Conference

on Chemical & Process Engineering 12 (ICheaP12), Milano, Italy, 19th – 22nd May 2015. DOI:

10.3303/CET1543205.

705. S. Al-Dahidi, F. Di Maio, P. Baraldi, E. Zio, Supporting Maintenance Decision with Empirical

Models Based on Fleet-Wide Data, The 49th ESReDA Seminar on: Innovation through Human

Factors in Risk Assessment and Maintenance, Brussels, Belgium, 29th -30th October, 2015.

706. U. Sahlin, Di Maio F., Vagnoli M., Zio E., “Evaluating the impact of climate change on the

risk assessment of nuclear power plants”, European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015

(ESREL 2015), 7-10 September, Zurich, Switzerland.

707. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A COMPacted Object Sample Extraction (COMPOSE)-

based Method for Fault Diagnostics in Evolving Environment, International Conference on

Reliability Systems Engineering & 2015 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference

(ICRSE & PHM 2015), Beijing, China, 2015,10

708. Y. Hu, P. Baraldi, F. Di Maio, E. Zio, A Method for On-line Evaluating the Accuracy of a

Particle Filter-based Prognostic Approach, 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference –

ESREL 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

709. M.X. Sun, Y.F. Li, E. Zio A Dynamic Programming Approach for the Efficient

Reliability Evaluation of Multi-State Series-Parallel System. MMR 2015, 1-4, Jun, 2015 , Tokyo,

Japan 1-8.

710. Y.H. Lin, Y.F. Li E. Zio A Computation Framework for Reliability Assessment of Complex

Systems under Multiple Dependent Competing Degradations. MMR 2015, 1-4, Jun, 2015, Tokyo,

Japan, 1-8

711. J. Liu, E. Zio, Adaptive Support Vector Regression for Long-Term Prediction under Non

stationary Environments: Prognostics of Components in Nuclear Power Plants International

Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2015),

21-24, Aug, 2015, Beijing, China 1-13

712. E. Kuznetsova, E. Zio Development of a Case Study for Eco-Industrial Park Deployment

under Uncertainty, ESREL 2015, 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-6

713. Y.F. Li, E. Zio An Ordinal Optimization Approach to the Solution of the Redundancy

Allocation for Multi-State Series-Parallel Systems. ESREL 2015 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich,

Switzerland 1-6

714. M.X. Sun, Y.F. Li, E. Zio. A Novel Genetic Algorithm Developed on a Reduced Search

Space for Optimal Redundancy Allocation in Multi-State Series-Parallel Systems. ESREL 2015 , 7-

10, Sep, 2017, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-6

715. P. Turati, N. Pedroni, E.Zio An entropy-driven method for exploring extreme and

unexpected accident scenarios in the risk assessment of dynamic engineered systems ESREL


716. F.Han, I.Prodan, E.Zio, A Framework of Model Predictive Control for the Safety Analysis of

an Electric Power Microgrid ESREL 2015 7-10, Sep, 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 1-12

717. E. Ferrario, N. Pedroni, E. Zio, F. Lopez-Caballero Application of metamodel-based

techniques for the efficient seismic analysis of structural systems ESREL 2015 7-10, Sep, 2016,

Zurich, Switzerland, 1-8

718. N. Pedroni, E. Zio, Estimating the small failure probability of a nuclear passive safety system

by means of an efficient Adaptive Metamodel-Based Subset Importance Sampling method , ESREL


719. Fan M, Zeng Z, Kang R and Zio E. Reliability modeling of a spool valve considering the

dependencies among failure mechanisms and epistemic uncertainty. Proceedings of Annual


720. Figliuzzi, V., Cadini, F., Zio, E., Palazzo, M., Sequencial Monte Carlo method to assess the

availability of power station layouts with generator circuit-breakers. Proceedings of Annual


721. Sedano, B., Astigarraga, D., Baraldi, P., Rigamonti, M., and Zio, E., Assessment of the

improvement achieved in RAMS by a FEV embedding a powertrain PHMS. Proceedings of Annual


722. Wang, Y., Zio, E., Wu, B. and Zhang, D., An inference exchange and decision fusing model

for separated surveillance units in safety-critical infrastructure. Proceedings of Annual European

Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2015), Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

723. Cadini, F., Azzolin, A., Zio, E., Cascading failure behavior in randomly generated power

transmission networks. Proceedings of Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference

(ESREL2015), Zurich, Switzerland, 2015.

724. Prodan, I., Stoican, F. and Zio, E., On a fault tolerant strategy for efficient energy management

in microgrid systems. Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive

Control, September 17-20, 2015. Seville, Spain.

725. E. Zio, Simulation of Life Distributions, in “Wiley Statistics Reference Online”. John Wiley &

Sons Ltd, pp. 1-8.

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