Drones, or UAVs, are developed very intensively. There are many effective applications of
drones for problems of monitoring, searching, detection, communication, delivery, and …

Mission abort has recently attracted considerable attention to enhance the safety of critical
systems during the primary mission (PM). Most of the existing research focuses on mission …

Many real-world critical systems, such as aircraft and human space flight systems, utilize
mission aborts to enhance the survivability of the system. Specifically, the mission objectives …

In this paper, a single-objective redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is considered for a
series system with k-out-of-n subsystems. In each subsystem, the components are binary …

Active redundancy is an effective technique for improving the mission success probability.
However, more components simultaneously performing the mission implies higher cost and …

This paper models and optimizes a 1-out-of-N: G heterogeneous warm standby system
subject to state-dependent component loading and mission abort policies. For …

Motivated by real-world applications like unmanned reconnaissance aerial vehicles, this
paper considers a multi-task multi-attempt mission system, where each task may be …

The virtualization technology, particularly virtual machines (VMs) used in cloud computing
systems have raised unique security and survivability risks for cloud users. This paper …

Warm standby redundancy has been used as an effective design technique for improving
the reliability of a system while achieving the compromise between restoration cost and …

To improve the system reliability while conserving the limited system resources, cold
standby sparing is often used. In computing tasks, because active components fail randomly …