# IEEE Transactions on Reliability

## Issue 4 • Dec. 2017

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Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):C1 - 965
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• ### IEEE Transactions on Reliability publication information

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): C2
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• ### The Impact of Soft Error Event Topography on the Reliability of Computer Memories

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):966 - 979
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The frequency, nature, and scope of Soft Error Events (SEEs) is becoming an increasingly significant reliability concern as transistors continuously scale down into ever smaller nanometer memory chip geometries. As part of the on-going research efforts required to address this steadily developing situation, two significant research questions were addressed by the research work presented within thi... View full abstract»

• ### Optimization of Component Allocation/Distribution and Sequencing in Warm Standby Series-Parallel Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):980 - 988
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Existing works on redundancy allocation problems have typically focused on active or cold standby redundancies or a mix of them; little research is dedicated to warm standby systems but with an assumption of allocating the same choice of components within each subsystem. Motivated by the fact that components with different costs and failure time distributions from different vendors can be availabl... View full abstract»

• ### Accelerated Life Testing With Semiparametric Modeling of Stress Effects

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):989 - 996
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Accelerated life testing has been widely applied to obtain the reliability information of an asset (component) at use conditions when the component is highly reliable. In accelerated life testing, tested components are exposed to stress levels more severe than usual so that more component failures can be observed in a short period of time. Most existing statistical models assume a known parametric... View full abstract»

• ### Optimal Sequential ALT Plans for Systems With Mixture of One-Shot Units

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):997 - 1011
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In this paper, we investigate a system composed of mixtures of one-shot units with nonhomogeneous and time-dependent characteristics. We propose analytical expressions to predict system reliability metrics and consider a physics-statistics-based lifetime model to demonstrate the units' failure mechanism as well as its failure process uncertainty. We design a sequence of optimum accelerated non-des... View full abstract»

• ### The Song Rule as a Validator of Analytical Results—A Note Correcting System Reliability Results in a Review of the Literature

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1012 - 1024
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A great deal of previous work has studied methods to determine system reliability. That work has defined system reliability as the probability that the production output meets a predetermined demand for a network with many workstations, each of which has random capacity determined by a discrete probability distribution. It is noteworthy that the archival work presents numerous examples, wherein en... View full abstract»

• ### Reliability Assessment of Multiprocessor System Based on $(n,k)$-Star Network

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1025 - 1035
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As the size and complexity of a multiprocessor system increases, reliability evaluation becomes an important issue. The performability of a multiprocessor system heavily depends on the application program and the underlying architecture. In multitasking multiprocessor system, the problem of dynamically assigning a given dimensional subsystem to a special task is considered as a reallocation in the... View full abstract»

• ### Reliability Assessment of Hierarchical Systems With Incomplete Mixed Data

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1036 - 1047
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A complex engineering system typically consists of a group of components/subsystems in a hierarchical structure and the system is monitored at only some, not all, of these hierarchical levels. This paper investigates a Bayesian approach to system reliability prediction using multilevel incomplete data. These data are drawn simultaneously from different component/subsystem levels within the same sy... View full abstract»

• ### Machine Learning Model for Event-Based Prognostics in Gas Circulator Condition Monitoring

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1048 - 1057
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Gas circulator (GC) units are an important rotating asset used in the advanced gas-cooled reactor design, facilitating the flow of CO2 gas through the reactor core. The ongoing maintenance and examination of these machines are important for operators in order to maintain safe and economic generation. GCs experience a dynamic duty cycle with periods of nonsteady state behavior at regular... View full abstract»

• ### Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Using Cloud Model Theory and PROMETHEE Method

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1058 - 1072
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Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a well-known engineering technique to recognize and reduce possible failures for quality and reliability improvement in products and services. It is a group-oriented method usually conducted by a multidisciplinary and cross-functional expert panel. In this paper, we explore two key issues inherent to the FMEA practice: the representation of diversified ri... View full abstract»

• ### A Delay Time Model With Multiple Defect Types and Multiple Inspection Methods

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1073 - 1084
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We develop delay time models to determine optimal inspection policies for deteriorating infrastructures. We consider the case where complex infrastructures can fail due to different causes (defects) originating from various environmental or operational conditions, and capture this through modeling the arrival of different types of defects as nonhomogeneous Poisson processes with distinct rates of ... View full abstract»

• ### Pattern Analysis Framework With Graphical Indices for Condition-Based Monitoring

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1085 - 1100
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Condition-based monitoring (CBM), with its tremendous scope in improving operational cost efficiency, has become an important component in most industrial machine maintenance frameworks. While many strategies already exist for CBM, this paper presents a novel pattern analysis framework, which focuses on improving reliability of real-time fault detection. The introduced framework is based upon a no... View full abstract»

• ### A State Transfer Scheduling Optimization Framework for Standby Systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1101 - 1109
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Standby techniques of different types have been applied in a wide range of industries to improve system reliability. Since the reliabilities of the operating components are generally high in the initial period of the mission and the standby components are hardly needed, it is more reasonable to set a standby component into cold standby state at the beginning and switch it into the warm standby sta... View full abstract»

• ### Impact of the Real-Time Thermal Loading on the Bulk Electric System Reliability

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1110 - 1119
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This paper presents a transmission line failure model that is enhanced with the dynamic thermal rating (DTR) system. The failure model consists of two parts. The first part is the Arrhenius model and it considers the loading effect of the DTR system as a result of operating at a higher temperature than the static thermal rating system. The second part is the Weibull model and it considers the end-... View full abstract»

• ### A Graphical Model Based on Performance Shaping Factors for Assessing Human Reliability

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1120 - 1143
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Human reliability assessment (HRA) is an aspect of risk analysis concerned with identifying, analyzing, and quantifying the causes, contributions, and occurrence of human failures. Applications of existing HRA methods are often domain-specific, and difficult to implement even for experts. Also, due to the lack of empirical data, managing uncertainty is important, if not essential. In view of such ... View full abstract»

• ### A Unified Framework for Evaluating Supply Chain Reliability and Resilience

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1144 - 1156
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As the complexity of supply chain structures and the frequency of their disruptions rise, businesses are increasingly recognizing the value of supply chain reliability and resilience (SCRR). A number of efforts have been devoted to define SCRR or to develop risk mitigation strategies for their improvement. However, a key question remaining to be answered is how SCRR should be quantified. Existing ... View full abstract»

• ### A Comprehensive Evaluation of Software Rejuvenation Policies for Transaction Systems With Markovian Arrivals

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1157 - 1177
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Software rejuvenation is one of the proactive fault management techniques to prevent system performance degradation, which may lead to the system failure caused by software aging. In the design of software rejuvenation, it is important to determine the optimal timing of triggering the rejuvenation in terms of the system overhead. In this paper, we consider six software rejuvenation policies, which... View full abstract»

• ### Random Additive Signature Monitoring for Control Flow Error Detection

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1178 - 1192
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Due to harsher working environments, soft errors or erroneous bit-flips occur more frequently in microcontrollers during execution. Without mitigation, such errors result in data corruption and control flow errors. Multiple software-implemented mitigation techniques have already been proposed. In this paper, we evaluate seven signature monitoring techniques in seven different test cases. We measur... View full abstract»

• ### Constraint Handling in NSGA-II for Solving Optimal Testing Resource Allocation Problems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1193 - 1212
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In software testing, optimal testing resource allocation problems (OTRAPs) are important when seeking a good tradeoff between reliability, cost, and time with limited resources. There have been intensive studies of OTRAPs using multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), but little attention has been paid to the constraint handling. This paper comprehensively investigates the effect of the con... View full abstract»

• ### Code Coverage and Postrelease Defects: A Large-Scale Study on Open Source Projects

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1213 - 1228
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Testing is a pivotal activity in ensuring the quality of software. Code coverage is a common metric used as a yardstick to measure the efficacy and adequacy of testing. However, does higher coverage actually lead to a decline in postrelease bugs? Do files that have higher test coverage actually have fewer bug reports? The direct relationship between code coverage and actual bug reports has not yet... View full abstract»

• ### Void Formation and Their Effect on Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints on MID and PCB Substrates

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1229 - 1237
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Since the introduction of lead-free solder alloys, the impact of voids in solder joints has rapidly gained in importance. Particularly in power electronics, voids in solder joints can reduce their reliability due to less heat dissipation and a significant reduction of the cross-sectional area. While void formation in the printed circuit board (PCB) technology has been the focus of many research pr... View full abstract»

• ### Reliability Analysis of Ethernet Ring Mesh Networks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1238 - 1252
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Design optimization for reliable networking is necessary for Ethernet ring mesh networks with ITU-T G.8032 Ethernet ring protection recommendation or with the IEC 62439-3 high-availability seamless redundancy protocol. To achieve this goal, the precise analysis of reliability/availability in Ethernet ring mesh consisting of single or multiple rings is one of the basic needs. Calculation of network... View full abstract»

• ### Dynamic Defense Resource Allocation for Minimizing Unsupplied Demand in Cyber-Physical Systems Against Uncertain Attacks

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1253 - 1265
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Cyber-attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS) are receiving much attention due to the pervasive use of communication in essential services. If cyber components in CPS are compromised by attackers, the ability to maintain stability of the physical system is lost, and performance disruptions may occur. Vulnerability analysis allows quantifying the impact of attacks based on the damage cost model. Ye... View full abstract»

• ### A Two-Stage Latent Variable Estimation Procedure for Time-Censored Accelerated Degradation Tests

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):1266 - 1279
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Parallel constant-stress accelerated degradation testing (PCSADT) is widely used to assess the reliability of highly reliable products in a timely manner when the products' degradation can be measured. Under a time-censored PCSADT, several groups of units are tested simultaneously, but under different stress levels, until a prespecified censoring time is reached. At this time, degradation values f... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Reliability is concerned with the problems involved in attaining reliability, maintaining it through the life of the system or device, and measuring it.

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## Meet Our Editors

Editor-in-Chief
W. Eric Wong
University of Texas at Dallas
Advanced Res Ctr for Software Testing and Quality Assurance

ewong@utdallas.edu