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The pivotal problem in reliability analysis is how to use as few actual assessments as possible to obtain an accurate failure probability. Although adaptive Kriging provides a viable method to address this problem, unsatisfied Kriging surrogate accuracy and reliability modeling samples often lead to an unacceptable computing burden. In this paper, an adaptive optimized Kriging combining efficient...