Availability appears to be a more appropriate measure than reliability for measuring the
effectiveness of maintained systems because it includes reliability as well as maintainability …

The field of reliability engineering has undergone evolutionary progress and breakthroughs
during the last six decades. This paper provides a historical perspective of significant …

A sound methodology for the elicitation of subjective expert judgement is a pre-requisite for
specifying prior distributions for the parameters of reliability growth models. In this paper, we …

This paper focuses on discrete reliability-growth models (DRGM), for which the relevant data
comprise sequences of dichotomous success-failure outcomes from successive system …

An ongoing production process produces defective parts at random intervals. Each defective
part provides a learning opportunity which the decision maker may use to improve the …

This paper presents a new method for projecting the reliability growth of a complex
continuously operating system. The model allows for arbitrary corrective action strategies …

The problem of estimating the reliability of a system which is undergoing development
testing is considered from a Bayesian standpoint. Formally, m sets of binomial trials are …

This paper presents a comprehensive framework for reliability prediction during the product
development process. Early in the product development process, there is typically little or no …

In this article, we consider the development and analysis of both attribute-and variable-data
reliability growth models from a Bayesian perspective. We begin with an overview of a …

The rapid pace of technology advancement has resulted in increasingly complex systems
with more potential failure modes. However, it is quite common that multiple key components …