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 …

This paper presents a systematic and critical literature review on dependent failure behavior
modeling in risk and reliability. A literature search is conducted systematically based on pre …

Failures of safety-critical mission-based systems, such as aircraft and submarines, could
result in significant losses and damage. To enhance the survivability of such systems, their …

In this paper, a novel algorithm called bi-objective elite differential evolution (BOEDE) is
proposed to optimize multivalued logic (MVL) networks. It is a multiobjective algorithm …

Fault tree analysis remains the most commonly employed method, particularly in the safety
critical industries, to predict the probability or frequency of system failures. Whilst it has its …

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) …

Selective maintenance is an important condition-based maintenance strategy for multi-
component systems, where optimal maintenance actions are identified to maximize the …

Recent advances in science and technology have made modern computing and
engineering systems more powerful and sophisticated than ever. The increasing complexity …

Existing researches on the reliability assessment of phased-mission systems (PMSs) focus
mainly on the phase dependencies of the machine state. However, with regard to the man …

Many practical systems have multiple consecutive and non-overlapping phases of
operations during their mission and are generally referred to as phased-mission systems …