Reliability Models of Complex Systems for Robots and Automation

Hamed Fazlollahtabar had graduated in BSc and MSc of Industrial Engineering at Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran at 2008 and 2010, respectively. He received his PhD of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran at 2015. He has just completed the postdoctoral research fellowship at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in the area of Reliability Engineering for Complex Systems. He is in the editorial board of several journals and technical committee of conferences. His research interests are robot path planning, reliability engineering, supply chain planning, and business intelligence and analytics. He has published over 230 research papers in international book chapters, journals, and conferences. Also, he published five books in which three of them are internationally distributed to the academicians.

Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of Simulation Modeling and Analysis, Applied Statistics, Multivariate Quality Control, and Operations Research. Before joining Sharif University of Technology, he worked as a systems engineer and quality control manager for Iranian Electric Meters Company. He received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1979, and his Master's and his PhD degrees both in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He is the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Scientia Iranica, Transaction-E editor of Scientia-Iranica, a board member of several international journals, and a member of ???.