IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

RELIABILITY

^IEEE RELIABILITY^publishedSOCIETY^{by the} and journal of the ASQ- ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS Division

DECEMBER 2008 VOLUME 57 NUMBER

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IERQAD (ISSN 0018-9529)

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PAPERS

Prognostics

Prognostic Degradation Models for Computing and Updating Residual Life Distributionsin a Time- Varying

Environment N. GebraeelandJ. Pan

Networking

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Spare Capacity Reprovisioning for Shared Backup Path Protection in Dynamic Generalized Multi-Protocol Label

SwitchedNetworks P.-H. Ho, J. Tapolcai, and A. Haque

Systems

Hierarchical Variance Decomposition of System Reliability Estimates With Duplicated Components T. Jin On the Mean Residual Life Function of Coherent Systems. . . . ... . . .. M. Asadi and S. Goliforushani

AFastAlgorithmforSearchingAllMulti-StateMinimalCuts w.-C Yeh

Fuzzy Multi-State Systems: General Definitions, and Performance Assessment ...

,. Y. Ding, M. J. Zuo, A. Lisnianski, andZ Tian A Logarithmic Binary Decision Diagram- Based Method for Multistate System Analysis A. Shrestha and L. Xing

Testing

Comparisonof ReliabilityandTestingModels

"""""""""""""""""""""""""" N. Schneidewind Inference for a Simple Step-Stress Model With Type-II Censoring, and Weibull Distributed Lifetimes ...

, M. Kateri and N. Balakrishnan

On Start-Up Demonstration Tests Under Exchangeability S. Eryllmaz and S. Chakraborti

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