2nd CALL FOR PAPERS


Special issue on "UNCERTAINTY IN ENGINEERING RISK AND RELIABILITY"

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O:
Journal of Risk and Reliability


http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/jrr-uncertainty/

http://journals.pepublishing.com/content/119859



Aims of the special issue
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The topic of uncertainty in engineering risk and reliability is of
wide practical relevance, and poses many problems and challenges.  The
main aim of this special issue is to present a range of recently
developed methods for uncertainty quantification, and corresponding
inference and decision support, which are either applied to important
practical problems or at least strongly inspired by such problems. The
methods presented will need to have solid mathematical foundations,
and it is the intention to particularly focus on methods that
generalize established classical probability theory and that are
presented in a manner that clearly indicates the advantages of these
methods.

When dealing with uncertainty, methods usually differ in the way
information is taken into account, as well as the way in which they
treat the differing nature of varying kinds of uncertainty.
Contributions that clearly focus on these aspects are welcome,
particularly if they are linked to real-world engineering applications
in line with the Journal's aims and scope.



Aims and scope of the journal
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The Journal of Risk and Reliability is for researchers and
practitioners who are involved in the field of risk analysis and
reliability engineering. The journal will publish high quality papers
covering all practical issues associated with the safe and reliable
design and operation of engineering systems from any industrial
sector.

Important factors which contribute to this subject area include:

* Mathematical methods in reliability theory
* Systems reliability assessment
* Risk analysis
* Safety case production / safety critical systems
* Hazard analysis
* Maintainability
* Maintenance planning, scheduling and optimisation
* Repairable systems analysis
* Failure analysis
* Availability modelling
* Integrated logistics support
* Life cycle costs
* Human reliability
* Software reliability
* Safety critical software
* Systems health monitoring
* Fault diagnostics
* Fault prognostics
* Reliability data collection and analysis
* Service system reliability
* Condition monitoring
* Accident analysis / Incident reporting
* Reliability test planning / Reliability assurance programmes
* Security
* Physics of failure
* Root cause analysis

If you are considering submitting a paper for this special issue, but
are not sure whether it fits well, please feel free to contact the
Guest Editors.



Instructions to authors
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Please follow the instructions for authors from the journal's
submission webpage, indicating clearly upon submission that the paper
is intended for this special issue:

http://journals.pepublishing.com/jrr/authors-referees.mpx

The Guest Editors would appreciate if you inform them as well about
submission of a paper for the special issue.



Deadline
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The DEADLINE for submission is 31 OCTOBER 2009.

This should enable publication of the special issue in (late) 2010.



Guest Editors for this special issue
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Frank Coolen   ([log in to unmask])
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Durham University, UK

Matthias Troffaes ([log in to unmask])
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Durham University, UK

Michael Oberguggenberger ([log in to unmask])
Unit of Engineering Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Lev Utkin ([log in to unmask])
Department of Computer Science
St.Petersburg Forest Technical Academy, Russia