Risk Analysis: Theory & Applications
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.1 No.1, issue of January, 2006 [Full Text in PDF]

Editorial

Igor Ushakov
"Reliability: Past, Present, Future" (in English)
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Игорь Ушаков
Надежность: прошлое, настоящее, будущее (in Russian).
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New publications

Gregory Levitin
"The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization"
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Study

Mark Kaminskiy, Vasiliy Krivtsov
"A Monte Carlo Approach to Estimation of G-Renewal Process in Warranty Data Analysis" (in English)
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Марк Каминский, Василий Кривцов
"Применение метода Монте-Карло к оценке обобщенного процесса восстановления при анализе данных об отказах в период действия гарантийных обязательств"
(in Russian)
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Oleg Abramov
"Reliability-Directed Computer-Aided Design System" (in English)
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Олег Абрамов
"Автоматизированная система надежностного проектирования" (in Russian)
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Владимир Рыков
"Два подхода к декомпозиции сложных иерархически стохастических систем. Непрерывно взаимодействующие подсистемы" (in Russian)
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Vladimir Rykov
"Generalized Birth & Death Processes as Degradation Models" (in English)
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Memoirs

Igor Ushakov
"Reminiscence About B.V. Gnedenko" (in English)
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Игорь Ушаков
"Воспоминания о Б.В.Гнеденко" (in Russian)
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Ilya Gertsbakh
"Kh. B. Kordonsky: Recollections and Short Review of Scientific Results" (in English)
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Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Richard L. Smith
"A Conversation with Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko"  (in English)
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Нозер Д. Сигпурвалла, Ричард Л. Смит
"Беседа с Борисом Владимировичем Гнеденко" (in Russian)
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.1 No.2, issue of April, 2006 [Full Text in PDF]

Editorial

Igor Ushakov
"D’OU VENONS-NOUS? QUI SOMMES-NOUS? OU ALLONS-NOUS?"  (in English)
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Игорь Ушаков
"Кто мы? Откуда мы? Куда мы идем?" (in Russian)
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New publications

1th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP MODERN STATISTICAL METHODS AND MODELS within the Frame of INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. RELIABILITY AND STATISTICS IN TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION (RELSTAT'06) (Riga, Latvia 25 - 28 October, 2006)
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Международный научный семинар им. Ю.Н.Руденко  (г.Харьков 1 – 5 июля 2006 г.)
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Gregory Levitin
"The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization"
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Илья Герцбах
"Теория надежности с приложениями к профилактическому обслуживанию" (in Russian)
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Study

Ilya Gertsbakh
"Two-Level Factorial Life Testing With Type -II Censored Data" (in English)
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Yakov Genis, Igor Ushakov
"Optimal Uniform-like Scheduling of Maintenance" (in English)
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Яков Генис, Игорь Ушаков
"Оптимальное планирование ремонтных работ по критерию равномерности загрузки" (in Russian)
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Oleg Abramov
"FAILURE PREVENTION BASED ON PARAMETERS ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION" (in English)
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M. Kaminskiy, V. Krivtsov
"Bayesian Probability Papers" (in English)
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Игорь Ушаков
"Контр-терроризм: распределение защитных ресурсов" (in Russian)
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Igor Ushakov
"Counter-terrorism: Protection Resources Allocation" (in English)
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Memoirs

Игорь Ушаков
"А для звезды, что сорвалась и падает… (воспоминания о Ю.Н.Руденко)"  (in Russian)
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.1 No.3, issue of September, 2006 [Full Text in PDF]

Editorial

FORUM PRESIDENTAL ELECTIONS
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ВЫБОРЫ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА ФОРУМА
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Conference, seminar, new publications

Chin-Diew Lai, Min Xie
STOCHASTIC AGEING AND DEPENDENCE FOR RELIABILITY
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Gregory Levitin
THE UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION IN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION
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Илья Герцбах
ТЕОРИЯ НАДЕЖНОСТИ С ПРИЛОЖЕНИЯМИ К ПРОФИЛАКТИЧЕСКОМУ ОБСЛУЖИВАНИЮ (in Russian)
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The First International Conference On Maintenance Engineering (ICME '06) UESTC, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R.China // October 15-18, 2006
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Study

Ernest V. Dzirkal, Victor A. Netes
OBSERVED STATISTICAL RISKS IN INSPECTION FOR QUALITY & RELIABILITY
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Эрнест В.Дзиркал, Виктор Р.Нетес
ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ НАБЛЮДАЕМЫХ РИСКОВ ДЛЯ КОНТРОЛЯ ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ КАЧЕСТВА И НАДЕЖНОСТИ
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G. Sh. Tsitsiashvili, M.A. Osipova
RESERVATION WITH RENEWAL IN OPENED AND CLOSED QUEUEING NETWORKS
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Г.Ш.Цициашвилли, М.А.Осипова
РЕЗЕРВИРОВАНИЕ С ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЕМ В ОТКРЫТЫХ И ЗАМКНУТЫХ СЕТЯХ
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Yakov Genis
ESTIMATION OF RELIABILITY OF SYSTEMS WITH FAST RESTORATION
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Яков Генис
ОЦЕНКА НАДЕЖНОСТИ СИСТЕМ С БЫСТРЫМ ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЕМ
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Igor Ushakov
COUNTER-TERRORISM: PROTECTION RESOURCES ALLOCATION. PART II. BRANCHING SYSTEM
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Игорь Ушаков
КОНТР-ТЕРРОРИЗМ: РАЗМЕЩЕНИЕ ЗАЩИТНЫХ РЕСУРСОВ. ЧАСТЬ 2. ВЕТВЯЩАЯСЯ СИСТЕМА
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Владимир Шпер
Реферативный аналитический обзор наиболее значимых публикаций в отечественной и зарубежной периодике по вопросам оценки надежности продукции, в том числе об опыте предприятий" (часть 1)
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John D. Kettelle, Igor A. Ushakov
WE ARE LIVING IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE… (scientific-romantic novella)
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Джон Кеттель, Игорь Ушаков
МЫ ЖИВЕМ В ЖЕЛТОЙ СУБМАРИНЕ… (научно-романтическая новелла)
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Memoirs

David Cox
MY BRIEF WITH GNEDENKO
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Давид Кокс
МОИ ВСТРЕЧИ С ГНЕДЕНКО
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Юлия Конокотина
КАК ЖЕ ЛЕГКО БЫЛО С НИМ РАБОТАТЬ … (воспоминания о Б.В.Гнеденко)
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.1 No.4, issue of December, 2006 [Full Text in PDF]

English Issue

Editorial
Editor-in-chief: Dear friends!
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Chronology of publications of Gnedenko’s books
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V.S. Koroliuk, I.N. Kovalenko, M.I. Yadrenko  , D.B. Gnedenko 
Brief note about life and scientific approaches by B.V. Gnedenko (in commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the birth)
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Study

Matteo Gaeta, Michael Konovalov, Sergey Shorgin
DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND METHODS OF TASK DISTRIBUTION IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEM
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Ciro d’Apice, Rosanna Manzo, Sergey Shorgin
SOME BAYESIAN QUEUEING AND RELIABILITY MODELS
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Vitalii A. Gasanenko
Limit raring processes and  rarefaction of two interacted renewal processes
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Memoirs

Igor Ushakov
Thurst of life: two gnedenko’s visits to the united states
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Russian Issue

Вступление

ОБРАЩЕНИЕ ГЛАВНОГО РЕДАКТОРА
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Библиография работ б.в.гнеденко
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В.Королюк, И.Коваленко, М.Ядренко, Д.Гнеденко
КРАТКИЙ ОЧЕРК ЖИЗНИ И ТВОРЧЕСКОГО ПУТИ Б.В.ГНЕДЕНКО
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Исследования

Марио Гаета, Михаил Коновалов, Сергей Шоргин
РАЗРАБОТКА МАТЕМАТИЧЕСКИХ МОДЕЛЕЙ И МЕТОДОВ РАСПРЕДЕЛЕНИЯ ЗАДАНИЙ В СИСТЕМЕ РАСПРЕДЕЛЕННЫХ ВЫЧИСЛЕНИЙ
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Чиро д"Апиче, Росанна Манцо, Сергей Шоргин
НЕКОТОРЫЕ БАЙЕСОВСКИЕ МОДЕЛИ В ТЕОРИИ МАССОВОГО ОБСЛУЖИВАНИЯ И ТЕОРИИ НАДЕЖНОСТИ
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Виталий А Гасаненко
ПРЕДЕЛЬНЫЕ РЕДЕЮЩИЕ ПРОЦЕССЫ И РАЗРЕЖЕНИЕ ДВУХ ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВУЮЩИХ ПРОЦЕССОВ ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЯ
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Владимир Шпер
Реферативный аналитический обзор наиболее значимых публикаций в отечественной и зарубежной периодике по вопросам оценки надежности продукции, в том числе об опыте предприятий" (часть 2)
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Воспоминания

В.С.Королюк
Б.В.ГНЕДЕНКО И СОЗДАНИЕ ШКОЛЫ ТЕОРИИ ВЕРОЯТНОСТЕЙ НА УКРАИНЕ
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Игорь Ушаков
ЖАЖАДА ЖИЗНИ. ДВА ВИЗИТА Б.В.ГНЕДЕНКО В АМЕРИКУ
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.2 No.1, issue of March, 2007 [Full Text in PDF]

English Issue

Igor Ushakov
IS RELIABILITY THEORY STILL ALIVE?
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M. Nikulin, L. Gerville-Reache, V. Couallier
NEW BOOK! Statistique des essais accElErEs
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Sumantra Chakravarty
Adapting Bass-Niu model for product diffusion to software reliability
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G. Tsitsiashvili
ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS  OF  LOGICAL SYSTEMS WITH UNRELIABLE ELEMENTS
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E. Aliguliyev
Optimization  probability of the unfailing work of a network with use of statistical tests on a Monte-Carlo method
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M. Kaminskiy
Risk Analysis of Military Operations
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I. Ushakov
Counter-terrorism: Protection Resources Allocation. Part III.  Fictional “Case Study”
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Russian Issue

Игорь Ушаков
ЖИВА ЛИ ЕЩЁ ТЕОРИЯ НАДЕЖНОСТИ?
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Г.Цициашвили
АСИМПТОТИЧЕСКИЙ АНАЛИЗ ЛОГИЧЕСКИХ СИСТЕМ С НЕНАДЕЖНЫМИ РЕБРАМИ
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Э.Алигулиев
ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ ВЕРОЯТНОСТИ БЕЗОТКАЗНОЙ РАБОТЫ СЕТИ С ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕМ СТАТИСТИЧЕСКИХ ИСПЫТАНИЙ ПО МЕТОДУ МОНТЕ-КАРЛО
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И.Ушаков
АНТИ-ТЕРРОРИЗМ: РАСПРЕДЕЛЕНИЕ ЗАЩИТНЫХ РЕСУРСОВ. ЧАСТЬ 3. УСЛОВНЫЙ ПРИМЕР
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Г.Цициашвили
ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ О ВЛАДИМИРЕ ВЯЧЕСЛАВОВИЧЕ КАЛАШНИКОВЕ
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А.Андронов
ПРОФЕССОР КОРДОНСКИЙ - ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬ И УЧИТЕЛЬ
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.2 No.2, issue of June, 2007 [Full Text in PDF]

English Issue

WORKSHOP  on   Asymptotic Statistics and Its Applications to Survival Analysis and  Reliability in Honor of  Ildar Ibragimov
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IEEE 2007 - International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, singapore, december 2-5, 2007
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The 7th International Conference RELIABILITY and STATISTICS in TRANSPORTATION and COMMUNICATION (RelStat’07) 
24-27 October 2007. Riga, Latvia
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B. Dimitrov, G. Hayrapetyan, and P. Stanchev
Aging and Longevity Control of Biological Systems via Drugs – a Reliability Model
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A. Krishnamorthy, Vishwanath C. Narayanan, T. G. Deepak
MAXIMIZATION OF RELIABILITY OF A k-OUT-OF-n SYSTEM WITH REPAIR BY A FACILITY ATTENDING EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS IN A RETRIAL QUEUE
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V.M. Abramov
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS ASSOCIATED WITH PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SYMMETRIC LARGE CLOSED CLIENT/SERVER COMPUTER NETWORKS
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G.Sh. Tsitsiashvili
Narrow places in logical systems with anreliable elements
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V.Gh. VODA
A  NEW GENERALIZATION OF RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION
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G.A. Fedotova, N.I. Voropai
OPTIMISATION OF RELIABILITY OF POWER SUPPLY TO CONSUMERS
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A.V. Bochkov, I.A. Ushakov
Sensitivity analysis of optimal counter-terrorism resources allocation under subjective expert estimates
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J. Kettelle
When Three's Not a Crowd
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I.B. Gertsbakh
MORE ABOUT RIGA’S RELIABILITY SCHOOL
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Russian Issue

В.М. Абрамов
ДОВЕРИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ИНТЕРВАЛЫ, СВЯЗАННЫЕ С АНАЛИЗОМ ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЬНОСТИ СИММЕТРИЧНЫХ БОЛЬШИХ ЗАМКНУТЫХ КОМПЬЮТЕРНЫХ СЕТЕЙ ОБСЛУЖИВАНИЯ
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Ю.К.Беляев
Воспоминания о Борисе Владимировиче Гнеденко
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Г.Ш. Цициашвили
Узкие места в системе с ненадежными элементами
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Г.A. Федотова, Н.И. Воропай
ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ НАДЕЖНОСТИ ЭЛЕКТРОСНАБЖЕНИЯ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЕЙ
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Г.А. Федотова
ОТЗЫВ НА ПУБЛИКАЦИЮ В ЖУРНАЛЕ «RELIABILITY: THEORY & APPLICATIONS» РЕФЕРАТИВНОГО АНАЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ОБЗОРА В. ШеРА
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Г. Ф. Ковалев
O Федеральном законе «О техническом регулировании» и проблеме надежности электроэнергетических систем
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Круизно-прогулочный катер «Мираж» (Boat “Mirage”)
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Electronic Journal
Reliability: Theory & Applications
Vol.2 No.3-4, issue of December, 2007 [Full Text in PDF]

Issue 1
Section 1: System Safety, Reliability and Maintenance Modeling

Blokus-Roszkowska Agnieszka
Analysis of component failures dependency influence on system lifetime
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Bris Radim
Stochastic ageing models – extensions of the classic renewal theory
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Budny Tymoteusz
Two various approaches to VTS Zatoka radar system reliability analysis
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Duarte Caldeira Jose, Soares Carlos Guedes
Optimisation of the preventive maintenance plan of a series components system with Weibull hazard function
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Dziula Przemyslaw, Jurdzinski Misroslaw, Kolowrocki Krzysztof, Soszynska Joanna
On multi-state safety analysis in shipping
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Elleuch Mounir, Ben Bacha Habib, Masmoudi Faouzi Improvement of manufacturing cells with unreliable machines
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Grabski Franciszek
Application of semi-Markov processes in reliability
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Grabski Franciszek
The random failure rate
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Grabski Franciszek, Zaleska-Fornal Agata
The model of non-renewal reliability systems with dependent time lengths of components
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Guo Renkuan
An univariate DEMR modelling on repair effects
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Guze Sambor
Numerical approach to reliability evaluation of two-state consecutive “k out of n: F” systems
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Guze Sambor, Kolowrocki Krzysztof
Reliability analysis of multi-state ageing consecutive „k out of n: F” systems
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Knopik Leszek
Some remarks on mean time between failures of repairable systems
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Kolowrocki Krzysztof
Reliability modelling of complex systems - part 1
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Kolowrocki Krzysztof
Reliability modelling of complex systems – part 2
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Kudzys Antanas
Transformed conditional probabilities in the analysis of stochastic sequences
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Kwiatuszewska-Sarnecka Bozena
On asymptotic approach to reliability improvement of multi-state systems with components quantitative and qualitative redundancy: series and parallel systems
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Kwiatuszewska-Sarnecka Bozena
On asymptotic approach to reliability improvement of multi-state systems with components quantitative and qualitative redundancy: “m out of n” systems
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Rakowsky Uwe Kay
Fundamentals of the Dempster-Shafer theory and its applications to system safety and reliability modelling
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Soszynska Joanna
Systems reliability analysis in variable operation conditions
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Valis David
Reliability of complex system with one shot items
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Zio Enrico
Soft computing methods applied to condition monitoring and fault diagnosis for maintenance
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Zio Enrico, Baraldi Piero, Popescu Irina Crenguta
Optimising a fuzzy fault classification tree by a single-objective genetic algorithm
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