Safety and reliability are two important aspects of dependability that are needed to be
rigorously evaluated throughout the development life-cycle of a system. Over the years …

Dynamic fault tree (DFT) is designed to conduct risk assessment studies of complex
systems. With the development of intelligent and network technology, risk assessment …

Dynamic systems exhibit time-dependent behaviours and complex functional dependencies
amongst their components. Therefore, to capture the full system failure behaviour, it is not …

The irrelevance coverage model (ICM) is an extension of the imperfect fault coverage model
(IFCM), which can reduce the risk of uncovered component failures by isolating irrelevant …

Dynamic fault tree (DFT) is a top-down deductive technique extended to model systems with
complex failure behaviors and interactions. In two last decades, different methods have …

Abstract Analysis of complex failure scenarios and mitigation procedures of an industrial
plant is one of the most important activity for the safety of the factory, the personnel and the …

The contribution of renewable energies to the reduction of the impact of fossil fuels sources
and especially energy supply in remote areas has occupied a role more and more important …

Dependability assessment is a crucial activity to ensure the correct operation of complex
systems. The output of dependability assessment activities include the quantification of …

Renewable energies are a key element of the modern sustainable development. They play
a key role in contributing to the reduction of the impact of fossil sources and to the energy …

The conditional binary decision diagram (CBDD) is an extension of the BDD by introducing
the conditioning event node, which has been applied to analyze the reliability of the dynamic …