Reliability Engineering and System Safety

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Volume 92, issue 12, 2007

Extended block diagram method for a multi-state system reliability assessment pp. 1601-1607

Anatoly Lisnianski

Multi-state component criticality analysis for reliability improvement in multi-state systems pp. 1608-1619

Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez and David W. Coit

Optimization of series–parallel multi-state systems under maintenance policies pp. 1620-1626

Mustapha Nourelfath and Daoud Ait-Kadi

Reliability optimization of a redundant system with failure dependencies pp. 1627-1634

Haiyang Yu, Chengbin Chu, Châtelet, Ėric and Farouk Yalaoui

A comparison of models for measurable deterioration: An application to coatings on steel structures pp. 1635-1650

Robin Nicolai, Rommert Dekker and Jan van Noortwijk

Gamma processes and peaks-over-threshold distributions for time-dependent reliability pp. 1651-1658

Jan van Noortwijk, J.A.M. van der Weide, M.J. Kallen and M.D. Pandey

Random field of initial deflections and strength of thin rectangular plates pp. 1659-1670

Sadovský, Z., C. Guedes Soares and A.P. Teixeira

Imperfect repair and lifesaving in heterogeneous populations pp. 1671-1676

Maxim Finkelstein

Online maintenance policy for a deteriorating system with random change of mode pp. 1677-1685

B. Saassouh, L. Dieulle and A. Grall

A SIL quantification approach based on an operating situation model for safety evaluation in complex guided transportation systems pp. 1686-1700

J. Beugin, D. Renaux and L. Cauffriez

Modeling accidents for prioritizing prevention pp. 1701-1715

A.R. Hale, B.J.M. Ale, L.H.J. Goossens, T. Heijer, L.j Bellamy, M.L. Mud, A. Roelen, H. Baksteen, J. Post, I.A. Papazoglou, A. Bloemhoff and J.I.H. Oh

Risk-based reconfiguration of safety monitoring system using dynamic Bayesian network pp. 1716-1723

Takehisa Kohda and Weimin Cui

On the optimization of free resources using non-homogeneous Markov chain software rejuvenation model pp. 1724-1732

Vasilis P. Koutras, Agapios N. Platis and George A. Gravvanis

A framework to integrate software behavior into dynamic probabilistic risk assessment pp. 1733-1755

Dongfeng Zhu, Ali Mosleh and Carol Smidts

Professional culture and risk perception: Coping with danger on board small fishing boats and offshore service vessels pp. 1756-1763

Rolf Bye and Gunnar M. Lamvik

Integrating human factors into process hazard analysis pp. 1764-1773

S.G. Kariuki and Löwe, K.

Volume 92, issue 11, 2007

Addressing dependability by applying an approach for model-based risk assessment pp. 1492-1502

Gran, Bjørn Axel, Rune Fredriksen and Atoosa P.-J. Thunem

A formal approach to the integrated analysis of security and QoS pp. 1503-1520

Alessandro Aldini and Marco Bernardo

State/event fault trees—A safety analysis model for software-controlled systems pp. 1521-1537

Bernhard Kaiser, Catharina Gramlich and Förster, Marc

Modular formal analysis of the central guardian in the Time-Triggered Architecture pp. 1538-1550

Holger Pfeifer and Friedrich W. von Henke

The deconstruction of safety arguments through adversarial counter-argument pp. 1551-1562

James M. Armstrong and Stephen E. Paynter

Using fuzzy self-organising maps for safety critical systems pp. 1563-1583

Zeshan Kurd and Tim P. Kelly

A SEU-protected cache memory-based on variable associativity of sets pp. 1584-1596

Hamid Reza Zarandi and Seyed Ghassem Miremadi

Volume 92, issue 10, 2007

An improved algorithm for connectivity analysis of distribution networks pp. 1295-1302

M.L. Kansal and Sunita Devi

Importance measures-based prioritization for improving the performance of multi-state systems: application to the railway industry pp. 1303-1314

Enrico Zio, Marco Marella and Luca Podofillini

Uncertainty treatment in production assurance analyses throughout the various phases of a project pp. 1315-1320

A. Hjorteland, T. Aven and Østebø, R.

On system failure probability density function pp. 1321-1327

Luca Campioni and Paolo Vestrucci

Discounting risks in the far future pp. 1328-1332

Niels Lind

Multi-objective design optimization of electrostatically actuated microbeam resonators with and without parameter uncertainty pp. 1333-1343

Min Liu, Kurt Maute and Dan M. Frangopol

The Bayes linear approach to inference and decision-making for a reliability programme pp. 1344-1352

Michael Goldstein and Tim Bedford

Uncertainty analysis based on sensitivity applied to angle-ply composite structures pp. 1353-1362

Conceição António, Carlos and Hoffbauer, Luísa N.

Verification of the calculation of probability of loss of assured safety in temperature-dependent systems with multiple weak and strong links pp. 1363-1373

J.C. Helton, J.D. Johnson and W.L. Oberkampf

Verification test problems for the calculation of probability of loss of assured safety in temperature-dependent systems with multiple weak and strong links pp. 1374-1387

J.C. Helton, J.D. Johnson and W.L. Oberkampf

Modeling emergency evacuation for major hazard industrial sites pp. 1388-1402

Paraskevi S. Georgiadou, Ioannis A. Papazoglou, Chris T. Kiranoudis and Nikolaos C. Markatos

An improved decomposition scheme for assessing the reliability of embedded systems by using dynamic fault trees pp. 1403-1412

Chin-Yu Huang and Yung-Ruei Chang

Bayesian networks for multilevel system reliability pp. 1413-1420

Alyson G. Wilson and Aparna V. Huzurbazar

Optimization of system reliability in the presence of common cause failures pp. 1421-1434

Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez and David W. Coit

Importance measures and genetic algorithms for designing a risk-informed optimally balanced system pp. 1435-1447

Enrico Zio and Luca Podofillini

Trading reliability targets within a supply chain using Shapley's value pp. 1448-1457

John Quigley and Lesley Walls

Differential, criticality and Birnbaum importance measures: An application to basic event, groups and SSCs in event trees and binary decision diagrams pp. 1458-1467

E. Borgonovo

Application of artificial neural networks to nuclear power plant transient diagnosis pp. 1468-1472

T.V. Santosh, Gopika Vinod, R.K. Saraf, A.K. Ghosh and H.S. Kushwaha

A recursive method for breaking complex logic loops in Boolean system models pp. 1473-1475

Jussi K. Vaurio

A fully Bayesian approach for combining multi-level information in multi-state fault tree quantification pp. 1476-1483

T.L. Graves, M.S. Hamada, R. Klamann, A. Koehler and H.F. Martz

Volume 92, issue 9, 2007

Methodology for identifying near-optimal interdiction strategies for a power transmission system pp. 1155-1161

Vicki M. Bier, Eli R. Gratz, Naraphorn J. Haphuriwat, Wairimu Magua and Kevin R. Wierzbicki

EUROCONTROL—Systemic Occurrence Analysis Methodology (SOAM)—A “Reason†-based organisational methodology for analysing incidents and accidents pp. 1162-1169

Tony Licu, Florin Cioran, Brent Hayward and Andrew Lowe

A preliminary evaluation of the impact of local accident information on the public perception of road safety pp. 1170-1182

Yunan Zheng

Identification of critical locations across multiple infrastructures for terrorist actions pp. 1183-1203

S.A. Patterson and G.E. Apostolakis

A process for supporting risk-aware web authentication mechanism choice pp. 1204-1217

Karen Renaud

Safeguarding information intensive critical infrastructures against novel types of emerging failures pp. 1218-1229

C. Balducelli, S. Bologna, L. Lavalle and G. Vicoli

Condition-based fault tree analysis (CBFTA): A new method for improved fault tree analysis (FTA), reliability and safety calculations pp. 1231-1241

Dan M. Shalev and Joseph Tiran

Technical risk involved in long-term operation of steam turbines pp. 1242-1249

Andrzej M. Rusin

Thermal–hydraulic passive system reliability-based design approach pp. 1250-1257

Luciano Burgazzi

A physical probabilistic model to predict failure rates in buried PVC pipelines pp. 1258-1266

P. Davis, S. Burn, M. Moglia and S. Gould

A simple reliability block diagram method for safety integrity verification pp. 1267-1273

Haitao Guo and Xianhui Yang

Evaluation of full and degraded mission reliability and mission dependability for intermittently operated, multi-functional systems pp. 1274-1280

Alberto Sols, Ramírez-Márquez, José E., Dinesh Verma and Vitoriano, Begoña

Dynamic reliability via computational solution of generalized state-transition equations for entry-time processes pp. 1281-1293

Paul Nelson and Shuwen Wang

Volume 92, issue 8, 2007

Cognitive modeling and dynamic probabilistic simulation of operating crew response to complex system accidents pp. 997-1013

Y.H.J. Chang and A. Mosleh

Cognitive modeling and dynamic probabilistic simulation of operating crew response to complex system accidents. Part 2: IDAC performance influencing factors model pp. 1014-1040

Y.H.J. Chang and A. Mosleh

Cognitive modeling and dynamic probabilistic simulation of operating crew response to complex system accidents pp. 1041-1060

Y.H.J. Chang and A. Mosleh

Cognitive modeling and dynamic probabilistic simulation of operating crew response to complex system accidents. Part 4: IDAC causal model of operator problem-solving response pp. 1061-1075

Y.H.J. Chang and A. Mosleh

Cognitive modeling and dynamic probabilistic simulation of operating crew response to complex system accidents pp. 1076-1101

Y.H.J. Chang and A. Mosleh

A study on the development of a task complexity measure for emergency operating procedures of nuclear power plants pp. 1102-1116

Jinkyun Park and Wondea Jung

A probabilistic cognitive simulator for HRA studies (PROCOS) pp. 1117-1130

P. Trucco and M.C. Leva

Incorporating organizational factors into probabilistic safety assessment of nuclear power plants through canonical probabilistic models pp. 1131-1138

Galán, S.F., A. Mosleh and J.M. Izquierdo

Volume 92, issue 7, 2007

STRRAP system—A software for hazardous materials risk assessment and safe distances calculation pp. 847-857

S.M. Godoy, A.S.M. Santa Cruz and N.J. Scenna

Recovery from equipment failures in ATC: Determination of contextual factors pp. 858-870

Branka Subotic, Washington Y. Ochieng and Oliver Straeter

A Monte Carlo simulation approach to the availability assessment of multi-state systems with operational dependencies pp. 871-882

E. Zio, M. Marella and L. Podofillini

Seismic PSA method for multiple nuclear power plants in a site pp. 883-894

Tadakuni Hakata

Test interval optimization of safety systems of nuclear power plant using fuzzy-genetic approach pp. 895-901

K. Durga Rao, V. Gopika, H.S. Kushwaha, A.K. Verma and A. Srividya

Towards a lessons learned system for critical software pp. 902-913

J. Andrade, J. Ares, García, R., J. Pazos, Rodríguez, S., Rodríguez-Patón, A. and A. Silva

Optimal burn-in time and warranty length under fully renewing combination free replacement and pro-rata warranty pp. 914-920

Chin-Chun Wu, Chao-Yu Chou and Chikong Huang

Decision support in early development phases—A case study from machine engineering pp. 921-929

Axel Gandy, Jäger, Patrick, Bernd Bertsche and Uwe Jensen

Cost–benefit functions for the allocation of security sensors for air contaminants pp. 930-946

James H. Lambert and Mark W. Farrington

Quantification of epistemic and aleatory uncertainties in level-1 probabilistic safety assessment studies pp. 947-956

K. Durga Rao, H.S. Kushwaha, A.K. Verma and A. Srividya

Estimating the approximation error when fixing unessential factors in global sensitivity analysis pp. 957-960

Sobol’, I.M., S. Tarantola, D. Gatelli, S.S. Kucherenko and W. Mauntz

A quantitative analysis of a risk impact due to a starting time extension of the emergency diesel generator in optimized power reactor-1000 pp. 961-970

Ho-Gon Lim, Joon-Eon Yang and Mee-Jeong Hwang

A practical method for accurate quantification of large fault trees pp. 971-982

Jong Soo Choi and Nam Zin Cho

Reliability improvement through alternative designs—A case study pp. 983-991

Saurabh Kumar, Gopi Chattopadhyay and Uday Kumar

Volume 92, issue 6, 2007

Joint interval reliability for Markov systems with an application in transmission line reliability pp. 685-696

Attila Csenki

Solving advanced multi-objective robust designs by means of multiple objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEA): A reliability application pp. 697-706

Daniel E. Salazar A. and Claudio M. Rocco S.

Bayesian risk-based decision method for model validation under uncertainty pp. 707-718

Xiaomo Jiang and Sankaran Mahadevan

A flexible Weibull extension pp. 719-726

Mark Bebbington, Chin-Diew Lai and RiÄ ardas Zitikis

Block diagram method for analyzing multi-state systems with uncovered failures pp. 727-734

Gregory Levitin

Storybuilder—A tool for the analysis of accident reports pp. 735-744

L.J. Bellamy, B.J.M. Ale, T.A.W. Geyer, L.H.J. Goossens, A.R. Hale, J. Oh, M. Mud, A. Bloemhof, I.A. Papazoglou and J.Y. Whiston

A unified framework for risk and vulnerability analysis covering both safety and security pp. 745-754

Terje Aven

Proposal for a sustainable framework process for the generation, validation, and application of human reliability assessment within the engineering design lifecycle pp. 755-770

G.A.L. Kennedy, C.E. Siemieniuch, M.A. Sinclair, B.A. Kirwan and W.H. Gibson

A new uncertainty importance measure pp. 771-784

E. Borgonovo

A logical model for quantification of occupational risk pp. 785-803

Ioannis A. Papazoglou and Ben J.M. Ale

An analytic solution for a fault tree with circular logics in which the systems are linearly interrelated pp. 804-807

Ho-Gon Lim and Seung-Cheol Jang

Maintenance, reliability and policies for orbital space station life support systems pp. 808-820

James F. Russell and David M. Klaus

Two-terminal reliability analyses for a mobile ad hoc wireless network pp. 821-829

Jason L. Cook and Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez

A digital filter-based approach to the remote condition monitoring of railway turnouts pp. 830-840

García Márquez, Fausto Pedro and Felix Schmid

Volume 92, issue 5, 2007

Different insights for improving part and system reliability obtained from exactly same DFOM “failure numbers†pp. 552-559

Harold Ascher

Practical extensions to NHPP application in repairable system reliability analysis pp. 560-562

Vasiliy V. Krivtsov

Optimal maintenance policies in incomplete repair models pp. 563-565

Waltraud Kahle

Simple bounds for counting processes with monotone rate of occurrence of failures pp. 566-568

Mark P. Kaminskiy

Shocks in homogeneous and heterogeneous populations pp. 569-574

Maxim Finkelstein

A non-parametric monotone maximum likelihood estimator of time trend for repairable system data pp. 575-584

Knut Heggland and Bo H. Lindqvist

Two fault classification methods for large systems when available data are limited pp. 585-592

Kyungmee O. Kim and Ming J. Zuo

A support vector machine integrated system for the classification of operation anomalies in nuclear components and systems pp. 593-600

Claudio M. Rocco S. and Enrico Zio

Degradation models and implied lifetime distributions pp. 601-608

Suk Joo Bae, Way Kuo and Paul H. Kvam

The nuclear industry's transition to risk-informed regulation and operation in the United States pp. 609-618

Andrew C. Kadak and Toshihiro Matsuo

Estimating rate of occurrence of rare events with empirical bayes: A railway application pp. 619-627

John Quigley, Tim Bedford and Lesley Walls

Consistent mapping of common cause failure rates and alpha factors pp. 628-645

Jussi K. Vaurio

Reliability of a computer network in case capacity weight varying with arcs, nodes and types of commodity pp. 646-652

Yi-Kuei Lin

A proposal for including technical failure risk in market-based resource reallocation for spacecraft design pp. 653-659

Seth Guikema

An alternative time-domain index for condition monitoring of rolling element bearings—A comparison study pp. 660-670

Bo Tao, Limin Zhu, Han Ding and Youlun Xiong

State of the art in reliability of thermal-hydraulic passive systems pp. 671-675

Luciano Burgazzi

On statistical and information-based virtual age of degrading systems pp. 676-681

Maxim Finkelstein

Volume 92, issue 4, 2007

Fault-tolerant embedded system design and optimization considering reliability estimation uncertainty pp. 395-407

Naruemon Wattanapongskorn and David W. Coit

A tolerance interval based approach to address uncertainty for RAMS+C optimization pp. 408-422

S. Martorell, A. Sanchez and S. Carlos

Forecasting systems reliability based on support vector regression with genetic algorithms pp. 423-432

Kuan-Yu Chen

A decision framework for risk management, with application to the offshore oil and gas industry pp. 433-448

T. Aven, J.E. Vinnem and H.S. Wiencke

Reliability studies of a high-power proton accelerator for accelerator-driven system applications for nuclear waste transmutation pp. 449-463

Luciano Burgazzi and Paolo Pierini

Economic design of a circular consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system with (k-1)-step Markov dependence pp. 464-478

Won-Young Yun, Gui-Rae Kim and Hisashi Yamamoto

Node-pair reliability of network systems with small distances between adjacent nodes pp. 479-489

Jacek Malinowski

Formulating informative, data-based priors for failure probability estimation in reliability analysis pp. 490-502

Seth D. Guikema

OPERA—a human performance database under simulated emergencies of nuclear power plants pp. 503-519

Jinkyun Park and Wondea Jung

Safety culture enhancement through the implementation of IAEA guidelines pp. 520-529

A. Mengolini and L. Debarberis

Reliability-centered predictive maintenance scheduling for a continuously monitored system subject to degradation pp. 530-534

Xiaojun Zhou, Lifeng Xi and Jay Lee

A bivariate optimal replacement policy for a multistate repairable system pp. 535-542

Yuan Lin Zhang, Richard C.M. Yam and Ming J. Zuo

Volume 92, issue 3, 2007

Burn-in policies for products having dormant states pp. 278-285

Shaomin Wu and Derek Clements-Croome

Design of PH-based accelerated life testing plans under multiple-stress-type pp. 286-292

E.A. Elsayed and Hao Zhang

Dependability estimation for non-Markov consecutive-k-out-of-n: F repairable systems by fast simulation pp. 293-299

Gang Xiao, Zhizhong Li and Ting Li

Analytical method for reliability and MTTF assessment of coherent systems with dependent components pp. 300-307

Lirong Cui and Haijun Li

Multiple multi-level redundancy allocation in series systems pp. 308-313

Won Young Yun, Young Man Song and Ho-Gyun Kim

Practical solutions for multi-objective optimization: An application to system reliability design problems pp. 314-322

Heidi A. Taboada, Fatema Baheranwala, David W. Coit and Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn

Redundancy allocation of series-parallel systems using a variable neighborhood search algorithm pp. 323-331

Yun-Chia Liang and Yi-Ching Chen

Robust recurrent neural network modeling for software fault detection and correction prediction pp. 332-340

Q.P. Hu, M. Xie, S.H. Ng and G. Levitin

Integrated availability model based on performance of computer networks pp. 341-350

Shi Jian and Wang Shaoping

Reliability analysis of hierarchical computer-based systems subject to common-cause failures pp. 351-359

Liudong Xing, Leila Meshkat and Susan K. Donohue

A study of two estimation approaches for parameters of Weibull distribution based on WPP pp. 360-368

L.F. Zhang, M. Xie and L.C. Tang

Formal safety assessment based on relative risks model in ship navigation pp. 369-377

Shenping Hu, Quangen Fang, Haibo Xia and Yongtao Xi

Modeling imperfectly repaired system data via grey differential equations with unequal-gapped times pp. 378-391

Renkuan Guo

Volume 92, issue 2, 2007

Analysis of field data under two-dimensional warranty pp. 135-143

M. Jung and D.S. Bai

Analysis of on-line maintenance strategies for k-out-of-n standby safety systems pp. 144-155

Lixuan Lu and Jin Jiang

Integrating safety and formal analyses using UML and PFS pp. 156-170

Frantz Iwu, Andy Galloway, John McDermid and Ian Toyn

The effect of information types on diagnostic strategies in the information aid pp. 171-186

Jong Hyun Kim and Poong Hyun Seong

Deterministic and stochastic approach for safety and reliability optimization of captive power plant maintenance scheduling using GA/SA-based hybrid techniques: A comparison of results pp. 187-199

Dusmanta Kumar Mohanta, Pradip Kumar Sadhu and R. Chakrabarti

Anticipating aging failure using feedback data and expert judgment pp. 200-210

Peres, François, Bouzaïene, Leïla, Jean-Claude Bocquet, Billy, François, Lannoy, André and Haïk, Philippe

Coupling ant colony and the degraded ceiling algorithm for the redundancy allocation problem of series–parallel systems pp. 211-222

Nabil Nahas, Mustapha Nourelfath and Daoud Ait-Kadi

Estimation of exponential component reliability from uncertain life data in series and parallel systems pp. 223-230

Zhibin Tan

Availability, reliability and downtime of systems with repairable components pp. 231-242

Armen Der Kiureghian, Ove D. Ditlevsen and Junho Song

A non-homogeneous Poisson process predictive model for automobile warranty claims pp. 243-251

Karl D. Majeske

The simulator experimental study on the operator reliability of Qinshan nuclear power plant pp. 252-259

Li Zhang, Xuhong He, Li-Cao Dai and Xiang-Rui Huang

An improved sum-of-disjoint-products technique for the symbolic network reliability analysis with known minimal paths pp. 260-268

Wei-Chang Yeh

Survivability of systems under multiple factor impact pp. 269-274

Edward Korczak and Gregory Levitin

Volume 92, issue 1, 2007

A system view of the No Fault Found (NFF) phenomenon pp. 1-14

Söderholm, Peter

Analysis and insights from a dynamical model of nuclear plant safety risk pp. 15-29

Stephen M. Hess, Alfonso. M. Albano and John P. Gaertner

Improving efficiency of solving d-MC problem in stochastic-flow network pp. 30-39

Zhou Yan and Meng Qian

Service reliability and performance in grid system with star topology pp. 40-46

Gregory Levitin and Yuan-Shun Dai

Analysis on the diffusion hazards of dynamic leakage of gas pipeline pp. 47-53

Yang Zhao, Li Xihong and Lai Jianbo

Uncertainty analysis and allocation of joint tolerances in robot manipulators based on interval analysis pp. 54-64

Weidong Wu and S.S. Rao

Reliability evaluation and optimisation of imperfect inspections for a component with multi-defects pp. 65-73

Jianmin Zhao, A.H.C. Chan, C. Roberts and K.B. Madelin

Nonparametric adaptive age replacement with a one-cycle criterion pp. 74-84

P. Coolen-Schrijner and F.P.A. Coolen

Optimal design of a maintainable cold-standby system pp. 85-91

Haiyang Yu, Farouk Yalaoui, Châtelet, Ėric and Chengbin Chu

Bayesian networks in reliability pp. 92-108

Helge Langseth and Luigi Portinale

Reliability optimization using multiobjective ant colony system approaches pp. 109-120

Jian-Hua Zhao, Zhaoheng Liu and My-Thien Dao

Information integration for complex systems pp. 121-130

Alyson G. Wilson, Laura A. McNamara and Gregory D. Wilson