Software fault tolerance in real-time systems: Identifying the future research questions

F Reghenzani, Z Guo, W Fornaciari - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Tolerating hardware faults in modern architectures is becoming a prominent problem due to
the miniaturization of the hardware components, their increasing complexity, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring reliability under epistemic uncertainty: Review on non-probabilistic reliability metrics

R Kang, Q Zhang, Z Zeng, E Zio, X Li - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, a systematic review of non-probabilistic reliability metrics is conducted to assist
the selection of appropriate reliability metrics to model the influence of epistemic uncertainty …

An efficient Kriging-based subset simulation method for hybrid reliability analysis under random and interval variables with small failure probability

M **ao, J Zhang, L Gao, S Lee, AT Eshghi - Structural and …, 2019 - Springer
This paper proposes an efficient Kriging-based subset simulation (KSS) method for hybrid
reliability analysis under random and interval variables (HRA-RI) with small failure …

A novel projection outline based active learning method and its combination with Kriging metamodel for hybrid reliability analysis with random and interval variables

J Zhang, M **ao, L Gao, J Fu - Computer methods in applied mechanics …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the hybrid reliability analysis with both random and interval variables
(HRA-RI). It is determined that a metamodel only accurately approximating the projection …

A combined projection-outline-based active learning Kriging and adaptive importance sampling method for hybrid reliability analysis with small failure probabilities

J Zhang, M **ao, L Gao, S Chu - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, the adaptive importance sampling (AIS) method is extended for hybrid
reliability analysis under random and interval variables (HRA-RI) with small failure …

First and second order approximate reliability analysis methods using evidence theory

Z Zhang, C Jiang, GG Wang, X Han - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2015 - Elsevier
The first order approximate reliability method (FARM) and second order approximate
reliability method (SARM) are formulated based on evidence theory in this paper. The …

Belief reliability for uncertain random systems

Q Zhang, R Kang, M Wen - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Measuring system reliability by a reasonable metric is a common problem in reliability
engineering. Since real systems are usually uncertain random systems affected by both …

An evidential network approach to reliability assessment by aggregating system‐level imprecise knowledge

T Huang, Z Shao, T **ahou, Y Liu - Quality and Reliability …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern complex engineering systems oftentimes possess hierarchical structures which can
be physically divided into several levels. Traditional reliability assessment methods were …

Improvements to the probability density evolution method integrated with the change of probability measure on quantifying hybrid uncertainties

Z Wan, X Hong, W Tao - Structural Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
The probability density evolution method (PDEM) synthesizing the change of probability
measure (COM) provides a compatible framework for quantifying simultaneous aleatory and …

Epistemic uncertainty-based reliability analysis for engineering system with hybrid evidence and fuzzy variables

C Wang, HG Matthies - Computer methods in applied mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of reliability analysis theory, the safety assessment for
engineering systems with hybrid epistemic uncertainties has received increasing attentions …