The International Symposium on STOCHASTIC MODELS in RELIABILITY ENGINEERING, LIFE SCIENCES and OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
 

         
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - Beer Sheva, Israel
 

9.00-9.50

Plenary Session 3.1

 

Chair: Anatoly Lisnianski

                     

Speaker:
Lalit Goel
   Power System  
   Reliability
   Assessment and
   Cost / Benefit
   Evaluation  

Plenary Session 3.2

 

Chair: Gueorgui Petkov

               

Speaker:
Fabio Spizzichino (with Jose Navarro)
   Different Definitions
   of the Concept of
   Signature and
   Related Properties
   of Coherent
   Systems

Plenary Session 3.3

 

Chair: Romeo Negrea

 

Speaker:
Gregory Levitin
   Defending Complex
   Systems Against
   External Attacks 

 

        

 

9.50-10.20

Coffee  Break

10.20-12.20

Session 7.1, M152 

Reliability Systems and Order Statistics

Chair: Tomasz Rychlik

 

Tomasz Rychlik

   Bounds on Variances of Coherent System Lifetimes

                 

Michel Broniatowski

   Bivariate Cox Models and Copulas
           

Piotr Jaworski

   On Copulas and Order Statistics

                                       

 

10.20-12.20

Session 7.2, M154 

Bayesian Reliability

Chair: Javier Cano

          

Javier Cano, David Ríos Insua, Javier Moguerza

   On the Assessment of Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
   of Complex HW/SW systems using a Bayesian Analyzer
                                
Qingpei Hu, Rui Peng, Szu Hui Ng,  Min Xie
   Simulation-based Software Defects Dynamics Analysis with
   Queuing Models
                   
 Louis Aslett, Simon  Wilson,
   Modeling and Inference for Networks with Repairable   
   Redundant Subsystems
  

 

10.20-12.20

Session 7.3, S200 

Mathematical Problems of Degradation and Ageing Systems and
Human Reliability Analysis

Chair: Gueorgui  Petkov

                

Alexander Antonov, Valeriy Chepurko

   Age - Dependent Statistical Models to the Objects Reliability
   Parameters Estimation

                              

Gueorgui  Petkov

   Statistical Not Versus Functional Human Reliability Analysis

                                

Gueorgui Petkov, Vladimir  Iliev

   Reflexive Analysis of Operator’s Erroneous Actions

                                       

Milan Holicky

   Life Quality Index in Probabilistic Risk Optimization
                                           

 

10.20-12.20

Session 7.4, S201 

Numerical Methods 1

Chair: Gavriel Yarmish  

                   

Elina  Moldavskaya

   LSE in the Regression with LRD and Constraints: Approximate  
   Representation and Applications

 

Anna Kitayeva, Gennady Koshkin, Josef  Piven

   Semi-Recursive Kernel Estimation of Production
   Functions and their Characteristics

 

Alexander  Slonim, Michael Slonim

   Analytical Method of Identification of Linear Non-oscillation
  Second Order Systems

 

Gavriel Yarmish

   Stochastic Linear Programs with Parallel Processors

                         

10.20-12.20

Session 7.5, S202

Numerical Methods 2

Chair: Tadeus Niezgoda

 

Romeo Negrea, Andrei Eckstein, Florin Alexa

   A Numerical Method for a Class of Backward Stochastic
   Differential Equations and Applications to Stochastic
   Resonance

                                         

Tadeusz Niezgoda, Danuta Miedzinska, Jerzy Malachowski,

   Modeling of Random Porosity Foam Microstructures in
   Aspect of Security and Safety Applications
                                                      
Tadeusz Niezgoda, Andrzej Kiczko, Wieslaw Barnat,
Pawel Dziewulski, Jacek Nowak 
   Reliability Increase of Road Infrastructure Based on
   New Road Safety Improvements
                                                                                
                                 
Mohamed Sathik, Jacob Vetha Raj, Sailapathi Sekar
  Adaptive Prediction Based Lossless Compression of Color Mosaic
  Image for Progressive Video Transmission
                                                                

 

10.20-12.20

Session 7.6, S203 

Numerical Methods 3

Chair: Boris Levit

 

Eugene Ostrovsky, Eugene Rogover, Leonid Sirota

   Adaptive Multidimentional Optimal Signal Energy Measurement
   against the Background Noise

 

Daniel Khankin,Alan Solomon, Yoseph Shpungin, Yoram Shotland,
Shlomo Mark
   Steps needed to develop Scientific Programming demonstrated
   on a Monte Carlo Package for Optimizing Fiber-Optic Evanescent
   Wave Spectroscopy

 

Boris Levit

   Minimax Estimation: a Non-asymptotic Outlook

 

Eugene Ostrovsky, Eugene Rogover, Leonid Sirota
    Optimal Adaptive Signal Detection and Measurement  
                              

12.20-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.00

Closing the SMRLO’10 Symposium
Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations