Dynamic methodologies for probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) are defined as those
which use a time-dependent phenomenological model of system evolution along with its …

Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) has been used in various technological fields to assist
regulatory agencies, managerial decision makers, and systems designers in assessing and …

Advanced technological systems consist of a combination of hardware and software, and
they are often operated or supervised by a human operator. Failures in software-intensive …

Assessment of software reliability is inevitable in modern software production process. Many
works aimed at better models for measurement and prediction of reliability of software …

The Markov/cell-to-cell map** technique (CCMT) and the dynamic flowgraph
methodology (DFM) are two system logic modeling methodologies that have been proposed …

A data-driven approach is presented for the on-line identification of the system Failure Mode
(FM) and the prediction of the available Recovery Time (RT) during a failure scenario, ie, the …

This work presents a novel, integrated approach to the reliability analysis of digital
instrumentation and control systems by incorporating Bayesian belief network (BBN), human …

Dynamic probabilistic risk assessment (DPRA) is a systematic and comprehensive
methodology that has been used and refined over the past decades to evaluate the risks …

To assess the risk of nuclear power plant operation and to determine the risk impact of
digital systems, there is a need to quantitatively assess the reliability of the digital systems in …

Digital instrumentation and control (I&C) upgrades are a vital research area for the nuclear
industry. Despite their performance benefits, deployment of digital I&C in nuclear power …