This unique treatment systematically interprets a spectrum of importance measures to
provide a comprehensive overview of their applications in the areas of reliability, network …

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

In many real-world applications, a mission may consist of several different tasks or phases
that have to be accomplished in sequence. Such systems are referred to as phased-mission …

In many industrial environments, maintenance is performed during successive mission
breaks. In these conditions, it may not be feasible to perform all possible maintenance …

Recently, the reliability of the multi-state phased mission systems (MS-PMSs) have been
widely studied, which is used in the aerospace industry. Except for the phase dependency …

As multi-state system reliability models are capable of characterizing the multi-state nature of
engineered systems in deteriorating process, they have received considerable concerns in …

Multi-state minimal paths, called d-minimal paths (d-MPs), are a popular tool for computing
the reliability of multi-state flow networks. Most of the existing algorithms seek for d-MPs by …

We propose a mathematical model for optimizing multiple redundancy-reliability systems
known as mega-systems. The system components are multi-state and the universal …

This paper mainly focuses on the integrated importance measure (IIM) of component states
based on loss of system performance. To describe the impact of each component state, we …

This article introduces an improved algorithm using State-Space Decomposition for exact
reliability evaluation of multistate networks given all minimal path vectors (d-MPs for short) …