Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to transform the human society toward becoming intelligent,
convenient, and efficient with potentially enormous economic and environmental benefits …

Abstract System reliability optimization is a living problem, with solutions methodologies that
have evolved with the advancements of mathematics, development of new engineering …

This research studies the cascading failure in a scale-free network from the perspective of
the payoffs of nodes in a multi-strategy evolutionary game. Different from the traditional …

This paper reviews works that consider the mathematical modelling of mission-abort policies
(MAPs). In a MAP, a valuable, and perhaps, vulnerable system performs a mission with two …

In this paper, we will consider the selective maintenance problem for multistate series
systems with stochastic dependent components. In multistate systems, the health state of a …

Recent advances in science and technology have made modern computing and
engineering systems more powerful and sophisticated than ever. The increasing complexity …

Reliability analysis considering multiple possible states is known as multi-state (MS)
reliability analysis. Multi-state system reliability models allow both the system and its …

In many life-critical applications (eg, spacecraft, aircrafts and chemical reactors),
accomplishing a specified mission or aborting mission objectives in the case of certain …

Ensuring safety and reliability in multistory concrete construction necessitates rigorous
assessment methodologies capable of addressing the inherent uncertainties of the …