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RELIABILITY IEEE RELIABILITY SOCIETY

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and journal of the ASQ- ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATIONS Division

SEPTEMBER 2006

VOLUME 55 NUMBER 3 IERQAD (lSSN 0018-9529)

PAPERS

Applied Papers

Safety Assessment of Fuel Rods via Generalized Bernoulli Chains M. Falk, L. Heins, and A. Wensauer A New Formalism for Designing and Specifying RAMS Parameters for Complex Distributed ContraI Systems: The

Safe-SADT Formalism. ..., L. Cauffriez, V. Benard, and D. Renaux

Software Reliability

Analysis of Software Aging in a Web ServeT M. Grattke, L. Li, K. Vaidyanathan, and K. S. Trivedi Generic Fault Tolerant Software Architecture Reasoning and Customization ...

.. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. . .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. . .. .. ... L. Yuan, 1. S. Dong, 1. Sun, and H. A. Basit Software Reliability Analysis by Considering Fault Dependency and Debugging Time Lag ...

,... C.-Y Huang and C.-T. Lin Evaluation of Software-1mplemented Fault-Tolerance (S1FT) Appraach in Gracefully Degradable Multi-Computer

Systems D. R. Avresky, S. J. Geoghegan, and Y Varoglu

A New Methodology for Predicting Software Reliability in the Random Field Environments X. Teng and H. Pham Estimation

Bounds on MTBF of Systems Subjected to Periodic Maintenance S. V.Amari

Estimation

A New Three-Parameter Extension to the Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution W 1. Owen

Warrantee and Replacement

Customer-Rush Near Warrant y Expiration Limit, and Nonparametric Hazard Rate Estimation From Known Mileage

Accumulation Rates

, B. RaiandB. Singh

Comparison of Expected Failure Times for Several Replacement Policies F. Belzunce, E. -M. Ortega, and J. M. Ruiz Network & System Reliability

On Optimal p-Cycle-Based Protection in WDM Optical Networks Witt Sparse-Partial Wavelength Conversion...

, T.LiandB. Wang

Reliability and Performance of Star Topology Grid Service Witt Precedence Constraints on Subtask Execution...

: G. Levitin, Y-S. Dai, andH. Ben-Haim A Study on the Design of Survivable Optical ViItual Private Networks (0- VPN) A. Haque and P.-H. Ho Reliability Modeling in Spatially Distributed Logistics Systems N. Wang, 1.-c. Lu, and P. Kvam Some Aging Properties of the Residual Life of k-out-of-n Systems . . . .. . . .. X. Li and P. Zhao Generalized Stock Models Based on a Cluster Point Process . . . .. . . .. . . .. 1.-M. Bai, Z. -H. Li, and X. -B. Kong

Multiple Weighted Objectives Heuristic for the Redundancy Allocation Problem

"""""""'. D. W Coït and A. Konak

Pracess Contrat

Parameter Estimation and Performance of the p-Chart for Attributes Data. . . . .. . . .. S. Chakraborti and S. W Human

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