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Title : Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis of Multi-State Systems
Date : May 1, 2009. (2:00 pm) Tea starts half an hour before each seminar
Location: ITEB 336
Speaker : Liudong Xing
Abstract:
Multi-state systems (MSS) are characterized by the system and/or its components exhibiting multiple states or performance levels varying from perfect operation to complete failure. They can model complex behavior, such as performance degradation, shared loads, imperfect fault coverage, standby redundancy and limited capacities, in many practical applications, for example, computer systems, power systems, communication and transmission networks, sensor networks, and logic circuits. In this presentation, efficient combinatorial approaches for modeling and evaluating reliability and component sensitivity of MSS will be discussed. Performance of the proposed methods will be demonstrated through analyses of practical MSS examples and a set of benchmark examples.
Bio:Liudong Xing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Dr. Xing served as a program co-chair for IEEE DASC 2006 and UC-Sec 2009, a program vice chair for ICESS 2007 and ICPADS 2008, and an associate guest editor for the Journal of Computer Science on a special issue of “Reliability and Autonomic Management” in 2006. She is the Editor for Short Communications in the International Journal of Performability Engineering. Dr. Xing is the recipient of the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award in 2007. Her current research interests include dependable computing and networking, reliability engineering, and wireless sensor networks. She is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu.
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