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# IEEE Transactions on Reliability

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• ### [Front cover]

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): c1
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• ### IEEE Reliability Society

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): nil1
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• ### [Breaker page]

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): nil1
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• ### Engineers or Witch Doctors?

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 337
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• ### What Time Is It?

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 337
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• ### R & M of Socketed ICs

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):338 - 343
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This study shows that sockets can be reliable enough in a relatively benign environment for the short-term. Criteria for failure-free performance include 1) operation in a controlled, non-vibration environment, 2) gold-plated, machined sockets, 3) either gold or tin-plated IC leads. Accelerated testing is required to estimate long-term reliability. Numerous federal and commercial systems use socke... View full abstract»

• ### Book Reviews

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 343
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• ### A Fault Tree Approach to Quality Control by Variables

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):344 - 352
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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Based on the analogy between the events component failed'' (in reliability) and measurement out of tolerances'' (in quality control) acceptance sampling by variables is investigated when using the measurements made at several check-points for each device to be tested. The joint use of the fault-tree approach (especially in terms of min-cuts and min-paths) and of finite-sample hypothesis testin... View full abstract»

• ### An Efficient Bottom-up Algorithm for Enumerating Minimal Cut Sets of Fault Trees

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):353 - 357
Cited by:  Papers (12)
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The paper improves the conventional bottom-up algorithm for enumerating minimal cut sets of fault tree. It is proved that, when the logical product of two reduced sum-of-product forms is expanded by the distribution rule, one need only check if each resulting term is absorbed by some terms of two original sum-of-product forms. The algorithm for executing this process is presented and illustrated b... View full abstract»

• ### Manuscripts Received

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 357
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• ### Calculation of System Reliability by Algebraic Manipulation of Probability Expressions

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):358 - 363
Cited by:  Papers (2)
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The method of synthesis for calculating the reliability of a complex network was developed by Woodcock. However, he experienced some difficulty in properly incorporating s-dependency, and this often necessitated considerable manipulation of the network beforehand. This difficulty is overcome in the present method by working with algebraic expressions involving component failure probabilities, and ... View full abstract»

• ### Free proceedings

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 363
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• ### Equivalence of a Nonoriented Line and a Pair of Oriented Lines in a Network

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):364 - 367
Cited by:  Papers (10)
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Equivalence of a nonoriented line and a pair of oriented lines (in the reliability-sene) is examined for four types of networks. Type I has one input node and one output node; type II has one input node and two or more output nodes; type II' has two or more input nodes and one input node; type III has two or more input nodes and two or more output nodes. For types I, II, II', every non-oriented li... View full abstract»

• ### Complex System With Preemptive-Repeat Repair

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 367
Cited by:  Papers (1)
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This paper evaluates the reliability of a complex system consisting of two units under the assumption that the system fails if it remain inoperable for more than a fixed time interval. View full abstract»

• ### Evaluating the KTI Monte Carlo Method for System Reliability Calculations

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):368 - 372
Cited by:  Papers (8)
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This paper describes and analyses the Kumamoto, Tanaka, Inoue (KTI) Monte Carlo method for estimating the reliability R of an s-coherent system by bracketing it between deterministic lower and upper bounds, and then positioning R between the bounds as a weighted average of the structure functions of Monte Carlo generated k-vectors. The procedure is illustrated with both a 2-out-of-3 system and a l... View full abstract»

• ### Manuscripts Received

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 372
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• ### Inverting and Minimizing Boolean Functions, Minimal Paths and Minimal Cuts: Noncoherent System Analysis

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):373 - 375
Cited by:  Papers (15)
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An efficient technique is presented for inverting the minimal paths of a reliability logic diagram or fault tree, and then minimizing to obtain the minimal cuts, or else inverting the minimal cuts for the minimal paths. The method is appropriate for both s-coherent and s-noncoherent systems; it can also obtain the minimized dual inverse of any Boolean function. Inversion is more complex with s-non... View full abstract»

• ### Event-Altered Rate Models for General Reliability Analysis

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):376 - 381
Cited by:  Papers (82)
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Stochastic processes within the general Poisson family, but distinguished by having rates which are changed by events, rather than by time, accurately describe the software error detection process. Several promising new models of this general type have been developed by the author and apply to hardware and software reliability problems, especially during the bum-in and wear-out phases. The growth ... View full abstract»

• ### Manuscripts Received

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 381
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• ### A Simple Event-Definition Notation and Associated Computer Programs

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):382 - 385
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A notation for defining events to a computer program is described. It has been used in weapon-effect simulation models. It is simple and can be efficiently processed by computer. Computer codes using the notation have been developed with small effort. View full abstract»

• ### Book Reviews

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 385
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• ### Reliability Analysis of 3-State Systems

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):386 - 393
Cited by:  Papers (27)
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This paper describes a reliability analysis of a system where its components take one of three states-good, degraded, or bad. For this 3-state system, the analogy of 2-state system is investigated. The calculation of system reliability can be reduced to that of the reliability of a corresponding 2-state system, provided that it is a generalized S-P system, with or without artificial, degraded comp... View full abstract»

• ### Landmarks in R&M Engineering: #4 On Equal Opportunity

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s): 393
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• ### Optimal Scheduled-Maintenance Policy Based on Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):394 - 399
Cited by:  Papers (17)
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Usually, more than one independent (conflicting) criterion is important in determining the replacement age of a critical item for a maintained system. In this study, mathematical models have been developed for three such criteria: 1) minimum replacement cost-rate, 2) maximum availability, and 3) lower-bound on mission reliability. The solutions are obtained using four methods for multiple criteria... View full abstract»

• ### A Modified Block Replacement Policy Using Less Reliable Items

Publication Year: 1979, Page(s):400 - 401
Cited by:  Papers (11)
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A modified block replacement policy is examined with the purpose of excluding the wastefulness caused by the property that almost new items might be sometimes replaced at planned replacement times under the ordinary block replacement policy. This modified policy can be stated as follows: 1) Operating items are replaced by new items at times kT (k = 1,2,...), 2) If operating items fail in [(k - 1)T... 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