IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
RELIABILITY
IEEE RELIABILITYpublishedSOCIETYby the and Journal of theASQ- ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS Division
JUNE 2006 VOLUME 55 NUMBER 2 IERQAD (ISSN 0018-9529)
SPECIAL SECTION OF ICQR2005: METHODS & MODELS
Reliability Models of a Bridge System Structure Under Incomplete Information. . ... .. . .. .. Y. Song, H. Feng, and S. Liu The Ca1culatingFormulae, and Experimental Methods in EITorPropagation Analysis ... .. .. ... 1. Zhang A Study on a Single-Unit Markov Repairable System With Repair Time Omission...
, Z. Zheng, L. Cui, andA. G. Hawkes
An Extended Model for Optimal Burn-ln Procedures.. ... .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. ... .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. J. H. Cha An Algorithm for Lower Reliability Bounds of Multistate Two-Terminal Networks S. Satitsatian and K. C. Kapur
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REGULAR PAPERS
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Statistics, Distributions, & Estimation
Failure Transition Distance-Based Importance Sampling Schemes for the Simulation of Repairable Fault-Tolerant
Computer Systems ... J. A. Carrasco
On q-Logistic and Related Models A. M. Mathai and S. B. Provost
U seful Periods for Lifetime Distributions With Bathtub Shaped Hazard Rate Functions ...
M. Bebbington, c.-D. Lai, andR. Zitikis Transformation From Availability Expression to Failure Frequency Expression M. Hayashi, T. Abe, and 1. Nakajima Analysis of Incomplete Data in Presence of Competing Risks Among Several Groups D. Kundu and A. M. Sarhan
Estimation ofP[Y < X] for Weibull Distributions D. Kundu and R. D. Gupta
Software Reliability
Incorporating Fault Debugging Activities Into Software Reliability Models: A Simulation Approach . . . .. . . .
, , S. S. Gokhale, M. R. Lyu, and K. S. Trivedi
Circuits
Fault Tolerance Techniques for High Capacity RAM S.-K. Lu and c.-H. Hsu
Relating Integrated Circuit Yield and Time-Dependent Reliability for Various Defect Density Distributions...
. . . .. K. O. Kim
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Systems and Networks
The Mean Residual Life Function of a k-out-of-n Structure at the System Level M. Asadi and I. Bayramoglu Performance Evaluation of Genera1izedMulti-State k-Out-of-n Systems M. J. Zuo and Z. Tian Assessment of Repairable-System Reliability Using Proportional Intensity Mode1s:A Review ,...
S.-T. Jiang, T. L. Landers, andT. R. Rhoads
Reliability and Performance of Tree-Structured Grid Services. . . .. . . .. . . .. Y.-S. Dai and G. LevitinBDD-Based Reliabi1ityAna1ysisof Phased-Mission Systems With Multimode Failures
" Z. Tang and 1. B. Dugan Assessment of the Actual Condition of the Electrical Components in Medium-Voltage Networks .,...X. Zhang and E. Gockenbach Sparing
An Efficient A1gorithm for Spare Allocation Problems H. - Y. Lin, F.-M. Yeh, and S. -Y.Kuo Burn-in and Degradation
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BOOK REVIEWS
The Mode1ing World of Reliabi1ity/Safety Engineering. . .. . . .. . ... . . .. . .. . . .. .. . . .. . . ..,. . .. .. Reviewed by 1. Rupe
"Petri Net Picture Book" and "Petri Nets for Reliability Modeling" Reviewed by J. Rupe
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