Past Symposia Management Committee, Board of Directors, Advisory Board iii The P. K. McElroy Award The P. K. McElroy Award for 1999 Best Paper v Tutorial Sessions xv Activities Not Otherwise Listed In This Proceedings xvi Author Index For This Proceedings xvii 4C - ``Fault-Tree Analysis Yavuz Goktas Use of fault-tree analysis for evaluation of system-reliability improvements in design phase 1(7) Milena Krasich Modeling mutually exclusive events in fault trees 8(6) David W. Twigg Anapathur Ramesh Upender R. Sandadi Tilak C. Sharma Analysis of safety systems with on-demand & dynamic failure modes 14(8) Leila Meshkat Joanne Bechta Dugan John D. Andrews Interval methods for improved robot-reliability estimation 22(6) Carlos Carreras Ian D. Walker 5A - ``R&M Programs in the Commercial & Industrial Environment Richard Curless Reliability in todays business environment 28(3) Dana Crowe Improving the performance of machinery & equipment 31(4) Mark A. Morris IBM Personal Systems Group: Application & results of reliability & quality programs 35(9) Suheil M. Nassar Ray E. Barnett A `Reliability Development Program for the Swedish industry 44(7) Sven Vikman Ake Lonnqvist 5B - ``Application of Modeling & Statistics O. Geoffrey Okogbaa Unavailability of a repairable system with one or two replacement options 51(7) Anne Berlot Stephen Desbruslais Marco Meniconi Reliability analysis of hard real-time control systems in the presence of controller malfunctions 58(7) Carl R. Elks Joanne Bechta Dugan Barry W. Johnson Reliability simulation model for systems with multiple intermediate storages 65(6) Helena Kortelainen Jukka Salmikuukka Saku Pursio AFR: Problems of definition, calculation, and measurement in a commercial environment 71(6) Jon G. Elerath 6A - ``R&M Techniques in the Commercial & Industrial Environment Richard J. Rudy Reliability test target development 77(5) Ming-Wei Lu Richard J. Rudy Using benchmarking to introduce & improve reliability engineering 82(4) Mark L. Morelli Field data are reliability information: Implementing an automated data acquisition & analysis system 86(8) James Jauw Pantelis Vassiliou Automobile engine reliability, maintainability, and oil maintenance 94(6) Richard David Youngk 6C - ``Software Reliability Mladen A. Vouk A Petri-Net approach for early-stage system-level software-reliability estimation 100(6) Meng-Lai Yin Craig L. Hyde Larry E. James Enhancing the predictive performance of the Goel-Okumoto software reliability growth model 106(7) Peter A. Keiller Thomas A. Mazzuchi Reliability analysis of integrated networks with unreliable-nodes and software-failues in time domain 113(5) Wei Hou O. Geoffrey Okogbaa Software FMEA techniques 118(6) Peter L. Goddard Developing & testing algorithms for stopping testing, screening, run-in of large systems or programs 124(7) Valter Loll A practical software-reliability measurement framework based on failure data 131(7) Minyan Lu Yunfeng Bai Min Cong 7B - ``Statistical Methods for R&M Analysis David W. Coit Modeling & analysis for multiple stress-type accelerated life data 138(6) Adamantios Mettas Multi-variate Weibull model for predicting system-reliability, from testing results of the components 144(6) Lev M. Klyatis Oleg I. Teskin James Wes Fulton Likelihood adjustment: A simple method for better forecasting from small samples 150(5) James Wes Fulton Robert B. Abernethy Reliability assessment from degradation data 155(7) Vladimir Crk Confidence limits on the availability of equipment 162(7) Wendai Wang Dimitri Kececioglu 7C - ``Panel: IEC-TC 56 John A. Miller IEC dependability standards in the new millenium 169(6) John A. Miller Geoff Alstead Jane Moss T. David Kiang Valter Loll Eric Mahy 9A - ``Reliability Prediction John D. Healy System reliability prediction prioritization strategy 175(6) David W. Coit Improvements in reliability-assessment and prediction methodology 181(7) Bruce G. Johnson Louis J. Gullo Monte Carlo simulation using Excel spreadsheet for predicting reliability of a complex system 188(6) Subhash G. Gedam Steven T. Beaudet Specifying reliability in the disk-drive industry: No more MTBFs 194(6) Jon G. Elerath A review of plastic-encapsulated-microcircuit reliability-prediction models 200(6) Yin-Liong Mok Lin-Mei Ten 9C - ``Risk Management for the New Millenium James R. Eyman Panel: Risk management in the new millenium 206(4) James R. Eyman Alfred A. Boyd Richard B. Jones William L. Vantine Steven Smith J. Steven Newman 10A - ``Reliability & Maintenance Optimization Jason W. Rupe A cellular evolutionary approach applied to reliability optimization of complex systems 210(6) Claudio M. Rocco Anthony J. Miller Jose Ali Moreno Nestor Carrasquero Reliability allocation & optimization for complex systems 216(6) Adamantios Mettas System-design optimization by genetic algorithm 222(6) Marzio Marseguerra Enrico Zio Simultaneous maintenance & production planning in multi-purpose plants 228(6) Constantinos G. Vassiliadis Maria G. Vassailiadou Lazaros G. Papageorgiou Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos 10B - ``Accelerated Life-Testing T. Paul Parker Designed fatigue experiments to improve the reliability of liquid-crystal displays 234(5) Bruno Scibilia Abdessamad Kobi Roland Chassagon Alain Barreau Design-evaluation and product-reliability-assessment using accelerated fatigue-life tests 239(6) Shams Jawaid Jon Ferguson HASS development method: Screen development, change schedule, and re-prove schedule 245(3) Mike Andrew Silverman Accelerated reliability test results: Importance of input vibration spectrum and mechanical response 248(141) Shams Jawaid Phillip Rogers The HASS development process 389 David J. Rahe Reliability evaluation of a Flash RAM using step-stress test results 254(6) Feng-Bin Sun Wayne C. Chang 11A - ``Advisory Board Panel: Tools for R&M Practitioners Way Kuo Tools for reliability & maintainability practitioners 260(4) Way Kuo Carl S. Carlson Frederick D. Gregory Ted Mitrou Martin L. Shooman Gustav A. Vassiliades 11C - ``Modern Concepts in R&M Modeling W. Paul Murdock Jr. Multi-state k-out-of-n system model and its applications 264(5) Jinsheng Huang Ming Jian Zuo Optimal-maintenance modeling on finite time with technology replacement and changing repair costs 269(7) Jason W. Rupe Generalized renewal process as a model for statistical warranty-claim prediction 276(5) Mark P. Kaminsky Vasiliy V. Krivtsov Bivariate failure modeling 281(7) Sang-Chin Yang John E. Kobza Joel A. Nachlas 12B - ``R&M in Space & Aircraft Applications Harold E. Ascher NASA new approach for evaluating risk-reduction due to space-shuttle upgrades 288(4) Fayssal M. Safie Rebecca L. Belyeu Forecasting the reliability & safety of future space-transportation systems 292(7) Joseph R. Fragola Reliability-related safety analyses for satellite navigation systems 299(6) Meng-Lai Yin Craig L. Hyde Larry E. James Quantifying the effects of commercial processes on availability of small manned-spacecraft 305(6) Manuel S. Alvarez Tyrone Jackson Reliability-centered maintenance on the space-shuttle program 311(6) Alfred M. Stevens Bonnie S. Hauge Robert J. Loomis Jr. Amitava Ghose 13A - ``Design Techniques Michael Tortorella A design tool for fault-tolerant systems 317(10) Giorgio Turconi Ermelinda Di Perna Integrating dependability analysis into the real-time system-design process 327(8) Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn Steven P. Levitan Power-related failure mechanisms in the analysis of wireless-system availability 335(6) Chun Kin Chan Tewfik L. Doumi Michael Tortorella Thermodynamic extensions of Miners rule 341(4) Alec A. Feinberg Alan Widom Design standards and their application to digital retrofit of existing analog safety-critical systems 345(5) Jonathan A. Tillack Lori M. Kaufman Karthik Kannan Barry W. Johnson Modeling of common-mode failures in digital embedded systems 350(8) Lori M. Kaufman Sanyukta Bhide Barry W. Johnson 13C - ``Risk Analysis Sid E. Markowitz Learning to enhance reliability of electronic systems through effective-modeling and risk-assessment 358(6) Lesley Walls John Quigley Application of NASA Risk Assessment to evalaution of the space shuttle external tank rewelding process 364(6) Robert J. Mulvihill Fayssal M. Safie State analysis: An alternative approach to FMEA, FTA, and Markov Analysis 370(6) Israel Ruiz Enrique Paniagua Joaquin Alberto Juli Sanabria Evaluating the residual risks of infusing new technologies into NASA missions 376(6) Steven L. Cornford Kenneth A. Hicks A physics/engineering of failure based analysis and tool for quantifying residual risks in hardware 382 Steven L. Cornford Mark Gibbel Martin Feather David Oberhettinger CUMULATIVE INDEXES (1980 - 2000) Cumulative Indexes (Explanations) 1(1) Cumulative Author Index 2(14) Cumulative Institution Index 16(8) Cumulative Key Word Index 24(26) Previous Tables of Contents (1990-1999) 50
