Many actual multistage manufacturing processes are not serial structure, but parallel structure or hybrid structure. The quality relationship model for multistage manufacturing process with parallel structure was developed based on state space model. The quality relationship model of multistage manufacturing process with hybrid structure was developed via the hierarchical iteration method based...

The ability of overcoming service interruptions, i.e., resilience, has always been an irremissible requirement for communication networks. Resilient schemes can either reserve in advance network spare resources (protection schemes) or found them upon failure occurrence (restoration schemes). While fixed protection schemes have been extensively used thus far in the telephone industry, the envisi...

In many industrial and medical applications observations are censored either due to inherent limitations or cost/time considerations. For example, with many products their lifetimes are sufficiently long that it is infeasible to test all products until failure even using accelerated testing. As a result, often a limited stress test is performed and only a proportion of the true failure times ar...