IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
RELIABILITY IEEE RELIABILITY SOCIETYpublished by the
and Journal of the ASQ- ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS Division
MARCH 2006 VOLUME 55 NUMBER 1 IERQAD (ISSN 0018-9529)
EDITORIAL
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PAPERS
Statistics and Estimation
Some Properties of Confidence Bounds on Reliability Estimation for Parts Under Varying Stresses. . . .
... WZhao,R.Pan,AAron,andAMettas
Estimation of Gpmmon Cause Factors From Systems Witt Different Numbers of Channels . . . . P'Hokstad,A.Maria,andP'Tomis On Improved Confidence Bounds for System Reliability. . . . J. E. Ram[rez~Marquez and W Jiang
Design
Multi-Path Heuristic for Redundancy Allocation: The Tree Heuristic. . . . C Ha and W Kuo A Generalized Framework for Probabilistic Design Witt Application to Rotors. . . . J. F. Shortle and M. B. Mendel
Testing .
Variables Sampling Plans for Weibull Distributed Lifetimes Under Sudden Death Testing. . . . c.-HJun,S.Balamurali,andS.-HLee
Optimal Design for Step-Stress Accelerated Degradation Tests. . . C-M. Liao and S.-T. Tseng Analysis of a Simple Step-Stress Life Test Witt a Random Stress-Change Time. . . C Xiong, K. Zhu, and M. Ji A Methodology for Predicting Service Life and Design of Reliability Experiments. . . .
P.Sadegh,A.Thompson,X.Luo,Y.Park,andT.Sienel Systems and Networks
A Continuous-Time Bayesian Network Reliability Modeling, and Analysis Framework . . . . H Boudali and 1. B. Dugan Recursive Formulas for the Reliability of Multi-State Consecutive-k-out-of-n:G Systems. . . .
:...HYamamoto,M.J.Zuo,T.Akiba,andz.Tian
A Genetic Aigorithm for Reliability-Oriented Task Assignment Witt k Duplications in Distributed Systems. . . . C-CChiu,c.-HHsu,andY.-S.Yeh
