<P>Dr. Gregory Levitin is an 'engineer-expert' in the Reliability and Equipment Department of the R and D Division of the Israel Electric Corporation and an adjunct senior lecturer at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. He has held these posts since 1993.</P> <P>Dr. Levitin has published 79 papers in refereed journals, one book, <EM>Multistate System Reliability: Assessment, Optimization and Applications</EM> (Lisnianksi and Levitin, World Scientific, 2003). He was an invited contributor to the <EM>Handbook of Reliability Engineering </...