The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to transform the human society toward becoming intelligent,
convenient, and efficient with potentially enormous economic and environmental benefits …

Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Today's fast-pace evolving and digitalizing World is posing new challenges to reliability
engineering. On the other hand, the continuous advancement of technical knowledge and …

Abstract System reliability optimization problems have been widely discussed to maximize
system reliability with resource constraints. Birnbaum importance is a well-known method for …

Phased mission systems (PMSs) have wide applications in engineering practices, especially
in aerospace industry such as man-made satellite and spacecraft. To achieve high reliability …

Multi-state phased mission systems (MS-PMSs) with common bus performance sharing
widely exist in practice. Their subsystems are often designed as redundant k-out-of-n (G) …

Phased-mission systems (PMS) are systems in which multiple non-overlapping phases of
operations (or tasks) are accomplished in sequence for a successful mission. Examples of …

Many real-world systems, particularly those with limited power resources, are designed with
cold-standby redundancy for achieving fault tolerance and high reliability. Cold-standby …

This paper proposes efficient methods to assess the reliability of phased-mission systems
(PMS) considering both imperfect fault coverage (IPC), and common-cause failures (CCF) …

Many practical systems are phased-mission systems (PMSs), where the mission consists of
multiple, consecutive, and non-overlapping phases of operation. An accurate reliability …