Abstract System safety, reliability and risk analysis are important tasks that are performed
throughout the system life-cycle to ensure the dependability of safety-critical systems …

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to transform the human society toward becoming intelligent,
convenient, and efficient with potentially enormous economic and environmental benefits …

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

Dynamic fault trees (DFTs) are powerful in modeling systems with sequence-and function
dependent failure behaviors. The key point lies in how to quantify complex DFTs analytically …

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 …

The reliability analysis of complex and dynamic systems is often achieved by a quantitative
analysis of dynamic fault trees (DFT), which model the system failure, ie a specific undesired …

Dynamic fault tree (DFT) is an extended technology of Fault tree analysis (FTA). It has been
widely used in many fields and plays an important role in improving the security …

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 …

With advances in Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent data sensors are being added to more
and more devices that interact with human's daily life in areas, such as medical services …

As the size of engineered systems grows, problems in reliability theory can become
computationally challenging, often due to the combinatorial growth in the number of cut sets …