Optimal Inspection Models with Their Applications

About Kodo ItoToshio Nakagawa

Kodo Ito received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from Yamagata University Japan in 1983 and 1985 respectively and D.E. degree from Aichi Institute of Technology Japan in 1999. He worked as Aircraft Engineer with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Nagoya Japan for 32 years from 1985 to 2017. He is now Professor at Tottori University Japan and Visiting Professor at Fukushima University Japan. His research interests are practical optimal operation and maintenance policies for large and complicated systems such as missile systems radar systems aircraft engine controllers airframes power plants and social infrastructures.  Toshio Nakagawa received B.S.E. and M.S. degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology Japan in 1965 and 1967 respectively and Doctor degree from Kyoto University Japan in 1977. He worked as Research Associate at Syracuse University for two years from 1972 to 1973. He is now Honorary Professor at Aichi Institute of Technology Japan. His research interests are optimization problems in operations research and management science and analysis for stochastic and computer systems in reliability and maintenance theory. He has published 7 books from Springer and more than 300 papers in research journals.