Recent Advances in System Reliability

1. Signature Representation and Preservation Results for Engineered Systems and Applications to Statistical Inference
N. Balakrishnan, Jorge Navarro, Francisco J. Samaniego

2. Using D-Spectra in Network Monte Carlo: Estimation of System Reliability and Component Importance
Ilya B. Gertsbakh, Yoseph Shpungin

3. Signatures and Symmetry Properties of Coherent Systems
Fabio Spizzichino, Jorge Navarro

4. Multidimensional Spectra of Multistate Systems with Binary Components
Ilya Gertsbakh, Yoseph Shpungin

5. Applications of Samaniego Signatures to Bounds on Variances of Coherent and Mixed System Lifetimes
Tomasz Rychlik

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Anatoly Lisnianski

7. Reliability Decisions for Supermarket Refrigeration System by using Combined Stochastic Process and Universal Generating Function Method: Case Study
Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin

8. Importance Analysis of a Multi-State System Based on Multiple-Valued Logic Methods
Elena Zaitseva

9. Optimal Replacement and Protection Strategy for Parallel Systems
Rui Peng, Gregory Levitin, Min Xie, Szu Hui Ng

10. Heuristic Optimization Techniques for Determining Optimal Reserve Structure of Power Generating Systems
Yi Ding, Lalit Goel, Peng Wang, Yuanzhang Sun, Poh Chiang Loh, Qiuwei Wu

11. Determination of Vital Activities in Reliability Program for Multi-State System by Using House of Reliability
Shuki Dror, Kobi Tsuri

12. Multi-State Availability Modeling in Practice
Kishor S. Trivedi, Dong Seong Kim, Xiaoyan Yin

13. Recent Results in the Analysis of Redundant Systems
Mikhail Nikulin, Noureddine Saaidia, Ramzan Tahir

14. Multiobjective Reliability Allocation in Multi-State Systems: Decision Making by Visualization and Analysis of Pareto Fronts and Sets
Enrico Zio, Roberta Bazzo

15. Optimal Incomplete Maintenance in Multi-State Systems
Waltraud Kahle

16. Nonparametric Estimation of Marginal Temporal Functionals in a Multi-State Model
Somnath Datta, A. Nicole Ferguson

17. Frailty or Transformation Models in Survival Analysis and Reliability
Filia Vonta

18. Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Reliability Modeling
Alex Karagrigoriou

19. On the Markov Three-State Progressive Model
Jacobo Uña-Álvarez

20. Multi-State Semi-Markov Model of the Operation Reliability
Franciszek Grabski

21. Reliability of Continuous-State Systems in View of Heavy-Tailed Distributed Performance Features
Emil Bashkansky, Tamar Gadrich

22. On Optimal Control of Systems on Their Life Time
Vladimir Rykov, Dmitry Efrosinin

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