The past several decades have witnessed an increasing number of natural and manmade
hazards with a dramatic impact on the normal operations of the society. The occurrences of …

The performance states of the manufacturing equipment and the quality states of the
manufactured products are important indicators for the operational state evaluation and …

With the increasing complexity and size of modern advanced engineering systems, the
traditional reliability theory cannot characterize and quantify the complex characteristics of …

Disruptive events, whether malevolent attacks, natural disasters, manmade accidents, or
common failures, can have significant widespread impacts when they lead to the failure of …

In this paper, we propose two metrics, ie, the optimal repair time and the resilience reduction
worth, to measure the criticality of the components of a network system from the perspective …

Traditional risk management approaches focus on perturbation events׳ likelihood and their
consequences. However, recent events show that not all perturbation events can be …

The Markov decision process (MDP) is a widely used method to optimise the maintenance of
multicomponent systems, which can provide a system-level maintenance action at each …

This unique treatment systematically interprets a spectrum of importance measures to
provide a comprehensive overview of their applications in the areas of reliability, network …

This paper describes a Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation methodology for estimating the
reliability of a multi-state network. The problem under consideration involves multi-state two …

In order to identify the vulnerable components and ensure the required reliability of
mechatronics systems, importance measures of critical components are crucially used in the …