Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 12 Issue 4

Genetic search for redundancy optimization in complex systems

Manju Agarwal, Rashika Gupta

Conceiving reliable systems is a strategic issue for any industrial society for its economical and technical development. This paper aims to focus on solving highly constrained…

Reliability‐redundancy optimization using simulated annealing algorithms

Ho‐Gyun Kim, Chang‐Ok Bae, Dong‐Jun Park

This paper aims to present a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm to search the optimal solution of reliability‐redundancy allocation problems (RRAP) with nonlinear resource…

Calculating top event probability of a fault tree with many repeated events

T. Yuge, K. Tagami, S. Yanagi

Calculating the exact top event probability of fault trees is an important analysis in quantitative risk assessments. However, it is a difficult problem for the trees with complex…

Acceptance sampling plans based on failure‐censored step‐stress accelerated tests for Weibull distributions

Sang Wook Chung, Young Sung Seo, Won Young Yun

The paper aims to present acceptance sampling plans based on failure‐censored step‐stress accelerated life tests for items having Weibull lives.

Reliability design of industrial plants using Petri nets

M. Bertolini, M. Bevilacqua, G. Mason

The paper aims to develop a new methodology for reliability modelling able to use the data collected in an FMECA analysis to simulate the reliability behaviour of a complex system…

Stochastic performance evaluation for multi‐task processing system with software availability model

Koichi Tokuno, Shigeru Yamada

The paper seeks to provide new stochastic measures for evaluating software reliability and performance characteristics comprehensively.

Software reliability modeling in distributed development environment

Y. Tamura, S. Yamada, M. Kimura

The aim of this paper is to propose a software reliability growth model based on stochastic differential equations for the integration testing phase of distributed development…

Editorial

Tadashi Dohi, Naoto Kaio, Won Young Yun