Reuse and remanufacturing have been widely studied in the maintenance related literature
due to the imperative of preserving resources and protecting the environment. To provide …

Though intensive research efforts have been devoted to the study of mission aborting rules
(MARs) for diverse types of systems, no previous work has discussed this problem for …

Mission abort is an effective way to enhance system safety during mission execution.
Existing multi-attempt mission abort models can be divided into two main categories …

Recent studies have shown that elements reusing through preventive replacements is
beneficial in enhancing the mission success probability (MSP) of standby systems. While …

Rescue procedures (RP), triggered either by the occurrence of the mission failure or by a
certain undesired system state, are usually applied to survive a life-critical or safety-critical …

Modeling and optimizing mission abort policies have received intensive research attention
in the past decade. While most of the existing models assumed single-attempt missions, few …

Condition monitoring data is an essential ingredient for prognostics and health
management. To minimize unnecessary inspections or measurements, it is crucial to …

Mission abort has recently attracted considerable attention to enhance the safety of critical
systems during the primary mission (PM). Most of the existing research focuses on mission …

Phased task systems commonly perform different tasks in sequence and have been widely
applied in various engineering fields. Failures of phased mission systems may result in …

The instability of global economic would affect us in many aspects. For some important
mission-oriented systems, if the decision-makers does not make the adequate budget …