In summer of 2010, the first author (HL) visited the second author (XL) at Lanzhou University,
China, and chaired the dissertation defense for XL's two graduating doctoral students …

In this paper, for two or more semi-coherent systems with shared components, three
signature measures–joint signature, joint survival signature and joint cumulative signature …

Abstract System signature is a crucial measure in the description and comparison of system
structures in the field of reliability, and it does not depend on the component distributions …

To investigate some complex practical systems, such as a smart street light system
composed of symmetrically deployed lighting and sensing equipment on both sides of a …

In this paper, we consider multi-state coherent systems that can be regarded as a
series/parallel/recurrent connection of multi-state modules with binary/multi-state …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in comparing the reliability of systems with
dependent components. Most of the recent works consider Archimedean copulas to define …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compute the signature reliability of the coherent
systems. Design/methodology/approach The considered k-out-of-n coherent system consists …

Computing the system signature is an attractive but challenging problem in system reliability.
In this article, we propose a novel algorithm to compute the signature of a system with …

The computation of the signature of a complex system is often challenging, as it may involve
a large number of components and a complex architecture. In this study, we propose a novel …

Systems Engineering; Reliability Analysis Using k-out-of-n Structures; 1 Page 1 Editors
Mangey Ram Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India Tadashi Dohi …