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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

RELIABILITY

^IEEE RELIABILITY^publishedSOCIETY^{by the} and Journal of the

ASQ- ELECTRONJCS & COMMUNJCATIONS Division

MARCH 2007 VOLUME 56 1 IERQAD (ISSN 0018-9529)

EDITORIAL

IEEE Editors Survey on the Features of Accepted Papers . 1. Rupe 2

PAPERS

System or Network Reliability

Reliability of a Flow Network Subject to Budget Constraints Y-K. Lin

System Reliability of a Lirnited-Flow Network in Multicommodity Case ... Y-K. Lin

GERT Analysis of m-Consecutive-k-Out-of-n Systems M. Agarwal, K. Sen, and P Mohan

On the Lifetime Distribution of Consecutive k-out-of-n : F System S. Eryilmaz

A New Stochastic Model for Systems Under General Repairs Ji. R. Guo, HLiao, W Zhao, and A. Mettas Monte Carlo N etwork Reliability Ranking Estimation.. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. . .. ... K. -P Hui Reliability Evaluation of Phased-Mission Systems Witt Imperfect Fault Coverage and Common-Cause Failures ...

. . . .. L. Xing

10 17 26 35 40 50 58

Testing

A New Method to Determine the Reliability Comparability for Products, Components, and Systems in Reliability Testing """""""""""""""""","""';"""'" , W-Y. K. Chien and S. F. Yang Optimum Bivariate Step-Stress Accelerated Life Test for Censored Data. . . . .. . .. .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . .. .. C. Li and N. Fard Accelerated Life Test Planning Witt Independent Weibull Competing Risks Witt Known Shape Parameter ...

' '.: ,.'".., ' F. Pascual

Redundancy Allocation

Solving the Redundancy Allocation Problem Witt a Mixof Components Using the Improved Surrogate Constraint

Method J. Onishi, S. Kimura, R. J. W. James, and Y. Nakagawa

69 77 85

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Reliability Distributions

Reliability Modeling: Linear Combination and Ratio of Exponenti(il and Rayleigh. ... B. M. G. Kibria and S. Nadarajah Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Reliability Analysis of Multi-Copy Repairable Systems. . . . .. . . .. . . .. .

"..;~ F. Tan, Z. Jiang, and S. J. Bae System Stress-Strength Reliability:The Multivariate Case. . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . .. N. Turkkan and Y. Pham-Gia

Sampling and Data Analysis

Reliability Sampling Methodology U sing Simulation and Re-Sampling .. . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. J. Nierwinski Analysis of Incomplete, Censored Data in Competing Risks Models Witt Generalized Expo~ehtial Distributions. . . . .

, ;/;: A. M. Sarhan

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Applications

A Real- Time Contingency Reserve Scheduling for an Isolated Power System.. .. .. . ... ... .. . ... .. . "" .. . . . ... . ... . . .. . .

"""""" L.-R. Chang-Chien, Y.-J Lin, and C.-C. Wu

Optimal Defense Strategy Against Intentional Attacks G. Levitin

A Wear Model for Assessing the Reliability of Cylinder Liners in Marine Diesel Engines ...

""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ,' M. Giorgio, M. Guida, and G. Pulcini

139 148

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BOOKREVIEWS . '.

Optimal Reliability Design, Fundamentals and Applications. . . . .. . . .. Reviewed by J. Rupe Re1iability of Large Sca1e Systems """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Reviewed by J. Rupe

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COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS

Corrections to "Challenges Re1atedto Reliability in Nano Electronics"

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REVIEWERS FROM 2006

2006 List of Referees """"""""""""""""""'" . . . . ""," .. .. . .. .. . .. . .. .. . . . .. .. . ... J Rupe