A novel method in the fusion field has been established to integrate the heterogeneous
reliability data for fusion-specific components of the DONES Accelerator Systems. It makes …

A complex engineering system typically consists of a group of components/subsystems in a
hierarchical structure and the system is monitored at only some, not all, of these hierarchical …

Lifetime data collected at product design and production stage or field operational stage
often exhibit heterogeneity patterns, making the homogeneity assumption in conventional …

Developing a good understanding of the interactions between forest plantation growth and
climate is essential for predicting the impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and …

The importance of degradation analysis as a method of reliability assessment has been
increasing because the products become more and more reliable. Bayesian updating is …

This paper presents a parameter estimation method for the lifetime distribution of the Meta-
Action Unit (MAU) with uncertainty failure modes under type-I censored data. The MAU is …

A degradation model with a random failure threshold is presented for the assessment of
reliability by the Bayesian approach. This model is different from others in that the …

Bayesian networks are powerful tools in system reliability assessment due to their flexibility
in modeling the reliability structure of complex systems. This dissertation develops Bayesian …

The rise of 'big data'has led to the frequent need to process and store data sets containing
large numbers of high dimensional observations. Because of storage restrictions, these …

The need for new large-scale reliability models is becoming apparent as the amount of
available data is expanding at a dramatic rate. Often complex systems have thousands of …