PAPERS 1
Introducing a Generalized Statistical Control Chart for Over-Or Under-Dispersed Count Data&Kimberly F. Sellers 1
Warranty Cost Analysis:On Modelling Warranty Repairs&Stefanka Chukova,Yu Hayakawa 7
Availabilities for Two-Part Partition of States for Aggregated Markov Repairable Systems&Lirong Cui,Fangyu Liu,Shijia Du 14
Characterization of a New Multivariate Ageing Notion:An Example&Fernandez-Ponce,J.M.,Odriguez-Grinolo,M.R 18
The M-Bayesian Credible Limits Of the Reliability and Its Applications&Ming Han 20
Optimal Redundancy Allocation for Cold-Standby Systems&Lun Ran,Jinlin Li,Xujie Jia 27
A Parameter Estimation Method for a Multi-State Deteriorating System with Incomplete Information&Ramin Moghaddass,Ming J. Zuo 34
Reliable Life Estimation under Ranked Set Sampling&Xiaofang Dong,Lirong Cui,Fangyu Liu 43
Neural Networks Modeling For Software Detected and Corrected Fault Prediction&Qingpei Hu 48
Optimal Maintenance Policy for Systems Suffer Damage in Discrete Time Process&Yu Hung Chien,Chung-Piao Chiang 54
Reliability Analysis of Electrical Connector Contacts Based On Accelerated Degradation Tests by Vibration Stress&Shunong Zhang,Yining Chen,Bo Sun,Rui Kang,Mingsheng Lu 59
Applying AHP Method to Evaluate Quality in Crisis ＆ Emergency Management&Lixin Cui,Ru Liu 66
Reliability Analysis of A Complex System With Three Modes of Failure Under Waiting Attended By Two Repairmen With Different Skills&S.B. Singh,Maneesha Gahtori 75
Integrated SPC/EPC Control of PVC Glove Production Process&Hu Yaoguang,Cheng Xi 84
On Generalized Start-up Demonstration Tests&Xian Zhao,Weijuan Xie and Aimin He 93
Optimal design of heterogeneous series-parallel systems with mixed redundancy types&Prashanthi Boddu,Liudong Xing,Ola Tannous 99
Reliability research of k-out-of-n:g supply chain system based on copula&Xujie Jia,Lirong cui 106
Small sample test and assessment method for dz4 alloy material's s-n and p-s-n curves&Xiaobing Ma,Tingting Wang 116
Warranty claim analysis for nonrepairable items considering human factors&Shaomin Wu 121
Optimal Preventive Matainance Based on Warranty Policy&Yu Xu,Hoang Pham,Lirong Cui 127
Queuing models with two types of service:applications for dependability planning of complex systems&Revaz Kakubava,Janos Sztrik 132
Sequential series systems and their risk assessments&Yanyang Zhu,Aofu Zhang,Lirong cui 136
Inference on two-parameter proportional reverse hazards family&BingXing Wang 144
On maximum order statistics from heterogeneous geometric variable&Peng Zhao 152
Exact reliability of generalized multi-state consecutive-k-out of-n system&Xian Zhao,Yu Xu,Fangyu Liu 159
Optimal release problem based on stochastic differential equation model for a large-scale open source solution&Yoshinobu Tamura,Shigeru Yamada 164
Failure Process Modeling for Systems with General Repairs&Huairui Guo,Haitao Liao and Julio Pulido 170
Service Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing systems&Chaonan Wang,Jingfang Huang,Zhaoyang Zhang,Liudong Xing,and Honggang Wang 176
Extended Optimal Replacement Policy with Age-Dependent Minimal Repair and Cumulative Repair-Cost Limit&Chin-Chih Chang,Shey-Huei Sheu,Yun-Luan Chen,Yu-Hung Chien 182
Optimal replacement policies for three continuous damage models&Xufeng Zhao,Cunhua Qian,Syouji Nakamura 188
Modeling Accelerated Life Tests with Dependent Failure Modes&Xiao Liu 195
Diagnostic and prognostic modeling of high-speed milling machine cutters&Seyed Ahmad Niknam,Haitao Liao 201
Non-parametric bootstrapping in software reliability assessment&Ryota Hakozaki,Tadashi Dohi 207
Optimal Reliability Improvement,Warranty Policy and Sale Price for Second-Hand Products&Mahmood Shafiee,Stefanka Chukova 214
Optimal Burn-In and Preventive Maintenance Strategy for a Warranted Product with Random Minimal Repair Cost&Mahmood Shafiee,Maxim Finkelstein,Ming Jian Zuo 222
Differential Evolution for Single-Objective Optimization&Enrico Zio,Giorgio Viadana 230
Influence factors and range of the Weibull shape parameter&R. Jiang,Y. Tang 238
Geometric analysis of performance region based on the monte-carlo method&Maxim Anop,Yaroslava Katueva 244
Application of deicion fixed point to the reliability allocation&Fujun Hou 248
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Assessing Reliability of Hybrid Systems&Perrine Broy,Roland Donat,Hassane Chraibi,Yann Dijoux,Christophe Berenguer 252
Bathtub Distributions through percentile residual life functions&Alba M. Franco-Pereira,Rosa E. Lillo,Juan Romo 258
On the Skewness of Order Statistics with Applications&Subhash Kochar,Maochao Xu 262
Queueing Model of the Non-reliable Hybrid Data Transmission ChannelWith Heterogeneous Links&Dmitry Efrosinin,Vladimir Rykov 272
Software reliability modeling with randomness of fault correction probability&Koichi Tokuno,Shigeru Yamada 280
Estimator of failure probability in the case of linear degradation by simulation&E. Kandi,P. Azhdari,A. Beitollahi 287
Reliability assesment for refrigeration system based on combined universal generating functions and stochastic process method&Ilia Frenkel,Lev Khvatskin 293
Quality Control Via System-level Burn-in&Zhi Sheng Ye,Loon-Ching Tang,Min Xie,P.S. Chan 300
A Repair-time Limit Replacement Molel with Imperfect Repair&Won Young Yun 308
A Multi-state Fault Tree Analysis Based Bayesian Network Modeling Method for Failure Prediction&Zhiqiang Cai,Shudong Sun,Shubin Si,Ning Wang 314
Estimating the Parameters of Bivariate Weibull Distribution under Random Censoring&Swagata Nandi,Isha Dewan 320
Multivariate Likelihood Ratio Ordering Results for k-out-of-n Systems&Felix Belzunce,Selma Gurler,Jose M. Ruiz 326
Integrated Importance Measure of Multi-state k-out-of-n:g Systems&Hongyan Dui,Shubin Si,Zhiqiang Cai,Shudong Sun 330
Stability Analysis of a Repair Model for a Cold Stand by System with Priority in Use and Repair&Lixia Ma,Genqi Xu 337
Optimal Replication Node Assignment in File Versioning Protocol to Assure Low Access Costs for Read Clients&Satoshi Fukumoto, Mamoru Ohara,Mitsuhiro Kimura 344
Statistical test plan design of reliability integrated compliance test based on reliability growth information&Xuejing Li,Jun Yang 351
New Models and Measures for Reliability Using Fuzzy Sets&Zhaojun Li,Kailash C. Kapur 362
Lz-transform for A Discrete-state Continuous-time Markov Process and Its Application to Dynamic Multi-state System Reliability Analyses&Anatoly Lisnianski 368
Two-unit Cold Standby Repairable Deteriorated System with Repairman Vacation&Xiaolin Liang,Li Chen,Zhengwu Wang 375
Lattice Set Theoretic Treatment of Multi-state Coherent Systems&Fumio Ohi 383
Semi-parametric approach for software reliability evaluation using mixed gamma Distributions&Hiroyuki Okamura,Takumi Hirata,Tadashi Dohi 390
Distributions with Periodic Failure Rates and the Relevation Transformation&Boyan Dimitrov,David Green,Peter Stanchev 397
Optimal Redundant Systems for Works with Random Processing Time&Mingchih Chen,Yi-Kuei Lin,Toshio Nakagawa 402
Models Comparison for Step-stress Accelerated Life Testing&Xu Haiyan 409
On Optimal Control of Systems with Random Life Resources&Vladimir Rykov,Dmitry Efrosinin 414
A Class of Models for Degradation Data with Dynamic Covariates&Yili Hong,William Q.Meeker 421
Lifetime Inference of Skew-Wiener Linear Degradation Models&Chien-Yu Peng,Snd Sheng-Tsaing Tseng 428
The Geometric Process&Yeh Lam 435
Burn-in for avoiding large risks under heterogeneous populations&Ji Hwan Cha,Maxim Finkelstein 441
Heuristic algorithm for location-allocation problem based on random analysis in integrated logistics distribution&Qian Zhang 447
Various Aspects Related To a General Start-Up Demonstration Procedure&Amos E. Gera 455
Two field reliability models of product under variable usage conditions&R. Jiang 461
Reliability modeling and optimization of multi-state systems with multi-fault coverage&Rui Peng,Gregory Levitin,Min Xie,Szu Hui Ng 467
Interval estimation based on bootstrap methods&Lijun Wang,Yongyu Wang 473
Regular plans of execution of tasks with random processing time&Alexander F. Ronzhin,Pavel E. Golosov 477
Regularly varying mixing densities and mixture failure rate asymptoties&Trifon I. Missov 481
Integrated importance measure of multi-state systems for maintenance processe&Shubin Si,Liu Yang,Hongyan Dui,Shudong Sun 488
Fault tree benchmark:design and application&Yuchang Mo 496
Naive baysian classifier for on-line remaining useful life prediction of degrading bearings&Francesco Di Maio,Selina S.Y. Ng,Kwok Leung Tsui,Enrico Zio 506
Statistical estimation of critical stress level of explosive materials based on percolation theory&Mitsuhiro Kimura,Satoshi Fukumoto 514
Modeling two component load sharing system&Isha Dewan 521
Reliability analysis of facility systems subject to edge failures:based on the uncapacitated fixed-charge location problem&Zongtian Wei,Shenggui Zhang 527
Maintenance policies for a random finite interval&Satoshi Mizutani 537
Optimal random inspection policies for a system with illegal access&Mitsuhiro Imaizumi,Mitsutaka Kimura 544
On exact goodness-of-fit testing for nonhomogeneous poisson processes&Bo Henry Lindqvist,Bjarte Rannestad 548
Efficient computational algorithm for optimal allocation in regression models&Wei Gao,Ping Shing Chan,Hon Keung Tony Ng,Xiaolei Lu 555
Dynamic reliability lower bounds for performance measures using the disutility function on multi-state systems&Carlos A. Solorio-Magana,Kailash C. Kapur 559
Parsimonious estimation of probabilities of undesirable events in structural reliability frameworks&Nicolas Bousquet 566
Network reliability with degenerate gaussian copula description of common-cause failures&Christian Tanguy 571
A discrete time model of congestion in charging stations for electric vehicles on an expressway&Junji Koyanagi,Hajime Kawai 578
Goodness-of-fit tests for recurrent event data&Russell Stocker 582
Optimal replacement and inspection policy for an operating system under a geometric process&Dequan Yue 586
Repairable geo[x]/g/l retrial queues with general retrial time and admission control&Jinting Wang 593
Regions of acceptability for reliability calculation and creation&Abramov O.V., Nazarov D.A. 600
Multi-state systems with independent local and propagated failures and competing failure propagation and isolation effects&Liudong Xing,Gregory Levitin,Chaonan Wang 607
A step-stress accelerated degradation model with multiple stress covariates&Peng Wang,David W. Coit 614
Expert system application in sneak circuit analysis&Zou Liping,Zou Tao 621
Customer-perceived software reliability predictions:beyond defect prediction models&Kazu Okumoto 627
The research of sneak circuit analysis based on artificial neural network&Zou Tao,Ma Qishuang 634
Bayesian analysis of the ARA imperfect maintenance model&Franck Corset,Laurent Doyen,Olivier Gaudoin 639
Reliability analysis of complex system with finite markov chain embedding approach&Zhou Chao,Wang Mingzhe 644
Continuous performance criteria based on fuzzy-probabilistic models&Milan Holicky 653
Research on cold-standby markov repairable system with neglected failure impact&Yang Dongpeng,Zhou Chao 657
Numerical method for reliability analysis of phased-mission system using markov chains&Xiaoyue Wu 666
Mission reliability evaluation of TT＆C system using discrete-event simulation&Xiao-Song Yang,Xiao-Yue Wu 672
Maxium likelihood estimators of the generalized exponential distribution&P. Azhdari,F. Nemani. Kashani 677
Mission reliability analysis of TT＆C system using BDD algorithm&Li Meng,Gang Wang,Xiaoyue Wu 682
An efficient and approximate evaluation method for mission reliability of TT＆C system&Shuang-Wei Xu,Xiao-Yue Wu,Hua Yan 687
Modeling of accelerated degradation tests with interval failure time data&Haitao Liao,Huairui Guo 693
Evaluating Reliability Improvement for An Engineering Design Using The Multivariate Loss Function-Based Method&Sheau-Chiann Chen,Jeh-Nan Pan 700
Reliability Estimation And Preventive Maintenance for Complex Multi-Component Systems Subject to Multiple Dependent Competing Failure Processes&Sanling Song,David W. Coit,Hao Peng,Qianmei Feng 707
Data Security Versus Survivability in Computer Grid&Gregory Levitin,Hanoch Ben Haim 715
Survival Models of Some Political Processes&Sahib Esa,Boyan Dimitrov 721
Age And Block Based Inspections Based on The Delay Time Concept&Wenbin Wang,Xiaofei Lu,Donghua Zhou 727
Empirical Bayes Estimation of Parameters from Burr-Ⅻ D istribution Based on Progressively Type-Ⅱ Censored Samples&Yimin Shi,Lin Wang 735
Structural Dynamic Reliability on The Space Vehicles Docking System&Chao Zhang,Weiguang An,Ming Liu 740
Analysis of Software System Reliability Based on Time Domain Method&Hai An,Lirong Cui 746
A Data Processing Method for Condition Based Maintenance Using Proportional Hazards Model&Bairong Wu,Zhigang Tian 753
On Mixtures of Pólya-Laguerre Frequency Functions of Finite Class ＆ Its Application to System Reliability&Assad Jalali 760
Relevancy And Equivalence of Fuzzy Multi-state Systems And Conventional Multi-state Systems:Concept Comparision And Examples&Yi Ding,Lin Cheng 768
A Case Study:Black African Countries Human Resources Management&Zakari Yaou,Lirong Cui 772
A randomized repair strategy in two-dimensional warranties&Rudrani Banerjee,Manish C. Bhattacharjee 779
A software reliability model with effect of multiple change-points&Shinji Inoue and Shigeru Yamada 786
Age-based maintenance policies with minimal repairs for single unit systems subject to competing failure modes due to degradation and shocks&K.T. Huynh,A. Barros,C. Bérenguer And I.T. Castro 793
Distributions with periodic failure rates in reliability&Boyan Dimitrov 801
Extremal distribution for the discrete 5-convex stochastic ordering and applications&Yougong Tian,Guimei Jiao 809
Nonparametric goodness-of-fit tests for censored data&Mikhail Nikulin,Boris Lemeshko,Ekaterina Chimitova,Angelika 817
Objective bayesian analysis for linear degradation models&Ancha Xu and Yncai Tang 824
On the sensitivity of alt optimal test plan to weibull shape parameter&Tao Yang, Rong Pan 835
Reliability inference in a first hitting time model with augmented data&Vasilis Sotiris,Eric Slud,Michael Pecht 845
Dynamic model to the reliability evaluation of the telecommunication network&Smail Adjabi,Karima Cherfi Lagha 852
Optimal maintenance of aircraft&Kodo Ito,Toshio Nakagawa 859
System reliability and accident risk analysis using mcmc simulation&Shahrzad Faghih Roohi,Min Xie,Kien Ming Ng 865
Optimum design for type-Ⅰ step-stress accelerated life tests of two-parameter weibull distributions&Peirong Xu,Yincai Tang,Haiyan Xu 872
An analytic approach for resiliency quantification of systems&Kishor S. Trivedi,Rahul Ghosh,Dong Seong Kim 882
Optimal designs for fourier regression models&Xiaojian Xu,Xiaoli Shang 889
Parametric analysis for the reliable operations of electromechanical actuators&Hongbin Deng,Qingyun Wang,Biaobin Jiang 896
Availability of markov repairable -out-of- system with effects neglected or delayed of failures&Xinzhuo Bao,Lirong Cui 902
Systems Failure Modeling under Both Degradation and Shocks&Loon Ching Tang,Zhisheng Ye and Haiyan Xu 908
A thorough analysis of differential evolution in single-objective and multi-objective optimization&Enrico Zio,Giorgio Viadana 914
Reliability Analysis of Control System for Independent temperature ＆ humidity air-conditioning system&Yu Yingyu,Yu Mingli 922
Research on Software-intensive Equipment System Fault Diagnosis Technology&Zhu XiaoDong,Feng JianYuan,Wang YiGang,Xu RenZuo 927
Waiting Time Distributions Of Patterns Involving Homogenous Markov Dependent Trials: GERT Approach&Pooja Mohan,Kanwar Sen,Manju Lata Agarwal 935
A Novel Performance-Related Network Reliability Metrics Based on Traffic Characteristics&Kang Wang,Shaoping Wang,Jian Shi 942
Reliability consideration of a replication with limited number of journaling files&Mitsutaka Kimura,Mitsuhiro Imaizumi,Toshio Nakagawa 948
Empirical bayes estimation of parameters from burr-ⅩⅡ distribution based on progressively type-Ⅱ censored samples&Yimin Shi,Lin Wang 954
Performance-Related Reliability Analysis Methodology of Computer Networks&Jian Shi,Shaoping Wang,Kang Wang 959
Computation of the remaining useful life of a system using online information:a methodology for prognosis&Ariane Lorton,Mitra Fouladirad,Antoine Grall 967
PLENARY TALKS 974
Filtering Reliability and Tracking Survivability&Nozer Singpurwalla 974
Importance Measures in Systems Reliability and Optimization&Way Kuo 975
Reliability,Safety,Risk:Control and Management&Vladimir Rykov 976
Threshold Analysis of Survival Data and Comparisons with Proportional Hazard Models&Mei-Ling Ting Lee 977
Field-Failure Predictions Based on Failure-time Data with Dynamic Covariate Information&William Q. Meeker 978
Modelling Reliability:From Actuality to Abstraction and Back Again&Lesley Walls 979
Prevention of failures using on-line monitoring and data assimilation&Personalized risk communication using Advanced Reliability and Safety Information System&Kazuyuki Suzuki 980
Exact Nonparametric Inference for Reliability in Multi-Sample Situation:New Wine in an Old Bottle&N. Balakrishnan 981
Reliability and Safety of Maritime Transportation Systems&Min Xie 982
Developments on Start-up Reliability Demonstration Tests&Xian Zhao 983
ABSTRACTS 984
Oncology,hematology and cross-effects of survival functions&Mikhail Nikulin,Oleg Rukavitsin 984
A genome-wide admixture mapping panel for native Hawaiians&Hansong Wang,Christopher A. Haiman Lo？c Le Marchand,Laurence N. Kolonel,Brian E. Henderson,Lynne R. Wilkens,Daniel O. Stram 986
Goodness of fit tests via ？-measures of divergence for survival and reliability data&Filia Vonta,Alex Karagrigoriou 987
Connecting threshold regression and accelerated failure time models&Xin He 988
Recent advances in signature based reliability analysis of consecutive-k systems&Serkan Eryilmaz 989
Reliability evaluation using finite markov chains&Yung-Ming Chang 990
Downtime analysis for some duplex and triplex systems&Revaz Kakubava 991
On the preservation of reliability classes associated with the mean residual life by a renewal process stopped at a random independent time&F.G. Badia,E.T. Salehi 992
Using signatures to compute system-related probabilities&Myles Hollander 993
New preservation properties of a homogenous poisson process stopped at an independent random time&F.G. Badia,E.T. Salehi,M. Asadi 994
Mean residual life ordering among convolutions of independent random variables&Baha-Eldin Khaledi 995
Generalized marshall-olkin distributions and copulas,and related bivariate aging properties&Xiaohu Li,Franco Pellerey 996
Comparing stochastically the components of sequential k-out-of-n systems&N. Torrado,R.E. Lillo and M.P. Wiper 998
Stochastic comparisons of series and parallel systems with randomized components&Antonio Di Crescenzo,Franco Pellerey 1000
Bounds on variances of order statistics from symmetric populations&Tomasz Rychlik 1002
The expected discounted penalty function for the compound binomial risk model with delayed claims and randomized dividends&Kam Chuen Yuen 1003
Percentile residual life orders and the decreasing percentile residual life aging notion&Moshe Shaked 1004
Analysis of the sum of discounted capital injection&Etienne Marceau,Hélène Cossette,David Landriault,Khouzeima Moutanabbir 1005
Characterization of a new multivariate ageing notion:an example&Fernández-Ponce,JM,Rodríguez-GriNolo,MR 1006
New aging properties of the clayton-oakes model based on multivariate dispersion&Alfonso Suárez Llorems 1008
New characterizations of multivariate lifetime distributions&Rodr Guez-Grinolo,M. Rosario,Fernandez-Ponce,J.M,Gómez-Gómez,T.,Pino-Mejías,J.L. Pellerey,F. 1011
Reliability as a basis of safety&Anop M.F.,Katueva Ya. V.,Tyrgola M.P. 1013
Software Fault Tolerance in the Twenty First Century&Kishor Trivedi 1014
Design of Reliability Test Plans:An Overview&E.A. Elsayed 1015
Dependent properties of multivariate generalized marshall-olkin distributions&Jianhua Lin,Xiaohu Li 1016
Sample size and power determination in a joint model of longitudinal and survival data&Liddy M. Chen, Joseph G. Ibrahim,Haitao Chu 1017
Optimal reciprocal reinsurance treaties under the joint survival probability and the joint profitable probability&Jun Cai 1018
A Markov Additive Risk process with dividend barrier and phase type claims&Esther Frostig 1019
Increasing directionally convex orderings of random Vectors having the same copula,and their use in comparing ordered data&Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan,Felix Belzunce,Miguel A. Sordo,Alfonso Suarez-Llorens 1020
Semiparametric Inference for a Recurrent Event Model with a Generalized Koziol-Green Structure&Akim Adekpedjou,Edsel A. Pena 1021
A Markov Modulated Poisson Model for Software Reliability Assessment&Joshua Landon,Suleyman Ozekici,Refik Soyer 1022
A unified competing risks limited-failure model&Sanjib Basu 1023
Estimation in the Burr X Parameters and Reliability Using Lower&Ayman Baklizi 1024
Analysis of repairable systems under multiple sources of failure&Ananda Sen 1025
Importance Measures in Reliability,Risk,and Optimization&Xiaoyan Zhu 1026
Single Period Analysis of a Two-Echelon Inventory System with Dependent Supply Uncertainty&Susan H. Xu 1027
Asymptotic Analysis of Multivariate Tail Conditional Expectations&Haijun Li 1028
Semi-Markov Perturbed Dynamical Differential Systems and Their Use in Structural Reliability&Limnios Nikolaos,Chiquet Julien 1029
Improving Newton's Method for Nonlinear Optimization Problems in Several Variables&Ameenalawneh 1032
Bayesian Inference Based on Records from the Pareto Distribution of the Second Kind&Ayman Baklizi 1033
The Value of Reliability for Non-repairable System&Guoxiao Yang 1034
Comparing Prediction Performance of Two Models via IDI Integrated Discrimination Improvement. Application to Aizheimer data.&Catherine Huber 1035
Author Index 1036