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Recent Advances in System Reliability

Signatures, Multi-state Systems and Statistical Inference

  • Anatoly Lisnianski
  • Ilia Frenkel
Book

Part of the Springer Series in Reliability Engineering book series (RELIABILITY)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Signature Representation and Preservation Results for Engineered Systems and Applications to Statistical Inference
    N. Balakrishnan, Jorge Navarro, Francisco J. Samaniego
    Pages 1-22
  3. Using D-Spectra in Network Monte Carlo: Estimation of System Reliability and Component Importance
    Ilya B. Gertsbakh, Yoseph Shpungin
    Pages 23-31
  4. Signatures and Symmetry Properties of Coherent Systems
    Fabio Spizzichino, Jorge Navarro
    Pages 33-48
  5. Multidimensional Spectra of Multistate Systems with Binary Components
    Ilya Gertsbakh, Yoseph Shpungin
    Pages 49-61
  6. Applications of Samaniego Signatures to Bounds on Variances of Coherent and Mixed System Lifetimes
    Tomasz Rychlik
    Pages 63-77
  7. Lz-Transform for a Discrete-State Continuous-Time Markov Process and its Applications to Multi-State System Reliability
    Anatoly Lisnianski
    Pages 79-95
  8. Reliability Decisions for Supermarket Refrigeration System by using Combined Stochastic Process and Universal Generating Function Method: Case Study
    Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin
    Pages 97-112
  9. Importance Analysis of a Multi-State System Based on Multiple-Valued Logic Methods
    Elena Zaitseva
    Pages 113-134
  10. Optimal Replacement and Protection Strategy for Parallel Systems
    Rui Peng, Gregory Levitin, Min Xie, Szu Hui Ng
    Pages 135-144
  11. 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
    Pages 145-154
  12. Determination of Vital Activities in Reliability Program for Multi-State System by Using House of Reliability
    Shuki Dror, Kobi Tsuri
    Pages 155-164
  13. Multi-State Availability Modeling in Practice
    Kishor S. Trivedi, Dong Seong Kim, Xiaoyan Yin
    Pages 165-180
  14. Recent Results in the Analysis of Redundant Systems
    Mikhail Nikulin, Noureddine Saaidia, Ramzan Tahir
    Pages 181-193
  15. Multiobjective Reliability Allocation in Multi-State Systems: Decision Making by Visualization and Analysis of Pareto Fronts and Sets
    Enrico Zio, Roberta Bazzo
    Pages 195-208
  16. Optimal Incomplete Maintenance in Multi-State Systems
    Waltraud Kahle
    Pages 209-218
  17. Nonparametric Estimation of Marginal Temporal Functionals in a Multi-State Model
    Somnath Datta, A. Nicole Ferguson
    Pages 219-235
  18. Frailty or Transformation Models in Survival Analysis and Reliability
    Filia Vonta
    Pages 237-251
  19. Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Reliability Modeling
    Alex Karagrigoriou
    Pages 253-267
  20. On the Markov Three-State Progressive Model
    Jacobo de Uña-Álvarez
    Pages 269-281
  21. Multi-State Semi-Markov Model of the Operation Reliability
    Franciszek Grabski
    Pages 283-294
  22. Reliability of Continuous-State Systems in View of Heavy-Tailed Distributed Performance Features
    Emil Bashkansky, Tamar Gadrich
    Pages 295-306
  23. On Optimal Control of Systems on Their Life Time
    Vladimir Rykov, Dmitry Efrosinin
    Pages 307-319

About this book

Introduction

Recent Advances in System Reliability discusses developments in modern reliability theory such as signatures, multi-state systems and statistical inference. It describes the latest achievements in these fields, and covers the application of these achievements to reliability engineering practice.

The chapters cover a wide range of new theoretical subjects and have been written by leading experts in reliability theory and its applications.  The topics include:

  • concepts and different definitions of signatures (D-spectra),  their  properties and applications  to  reliability of coherent systems and network-type structures;
  • Lz-transform of Markov stochastic process and its application to multi-state system reliability analysis;
  • methods for cost-reliability and cost-availability analysis of multi-state systems;
  • optimal replacement and protection strategy; and
  • statistical inference.

Recent Advances in System Reliability presents many examples to illustrate the theoretical results. Real world multi-state systems, such as power generation and transmission, refrigeration, and production systems, are considered in the form of case studies, making the book a useful resource for researchers and postgraduate students.

Keywords

Coherent System Coherent System Markov Reward Process Markov Reward Process Multi-state System Reliability Multi-state System Reliability Random Process Random Process Statistical Inference Statistical Inference Stochastic Process Stochastic Process

Editors and affiliations

  • Anatoly Lisnianski
    • 1
  • Ilia Frenkel
    • 2
  1. 1.Planning, Development and Technology Div, The System Reliability DepartmentThe Israel Electric Corporation Ltd.HaifaIsrael
  2. 2., Industrial Engineering and Management DeShamoon College of EngineeringBeer ShevaIsrael

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2207-4
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
  • Publisher Name Springer, London
  • eBook Packages Engineering
  • Print ISBN 978-1-4471-2206-7
  • Online ISBN 978-1-4471-2207-4
  • Series Print ISSN 1614-7839
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