Stochastic Models in Reliability, Network Security and System Safety: Essays Dedicated to Professor Jinhua Cao on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 Consecutive k and Related Models—A Survey  (Lirong Cui, Qinglai Dong)....Pages 3-18
 Recent Advances on Reliability of Phased Mission Systems  (Di Wu, Rui Peng, Liudong Xing)....Pages 19-43
 An Overview for Markov Decision Processes in Queues and Networks  (Quan-Lin Li, Jing-Yu Ma, Rui-Na Fan, Li Xia)....Pages 44-71
 Stochastic Monotonicity of the Mean-CVaRs and Their Applications to Inventory Systems with Stockout Cost: A Transformation Approach  (Hai-Bo Yu)....Pages 72-115
 A Simple Survey for Supply Chain Finance Risk Management with Applications of Blockchain  (Jian Li, Yajing Wang, Yongwu Li, Quan-Lin Li)....Pages 116-133
 A Survey for Stochastic Decomposition in Vacation Queues  (Naishuo Tian, Xiuli Xu, Zhanyou Ma, Shunfu Jin, Wei Sun)....Pages 134-158
Front Matter ....Pages 159-159
 Performance Degradation Analysis of Doppler Velocity Sensor Based on Inverse Gaussian Process and Poisson Shock  (Yixuan Geng, Shaoping Wang, Jian Shi, Weijie Wang)....Pages 161-175
 An Elman Artificial Neural Network for Remaining Useful Life Prediction  (Chong Liu, Chi Zhang)....Pages 176-198
 Bayesian Networks in Reliability Modeling and Assessment of Multi-state Systems  (Tao Jiang, Yi-Xuan Zheng, Yu Liu)....Pages 199-228
 Assessment of Reliability in Accelerated Degradation Testing with Initial Status Incorporated  (Chengjie Wang, Qingpei Hu, Dan Yu)....Pages 229-239
 Periodic Replacement Policies and Comparisons with Their Extended Policies  (Xufeng Zhao, Cunhua Qian, Toshio Nakagawa)....Pages 240-258
 Reliability of a Dual Linear Consecutive System with Three Failure Modes  (Rui Peng, Di Wu, Kaiye Gao)....Pages 259-269
 Component Importance-Driven Reliability Optimization for Linear Consecutive k out of n Systems  (Hongyan Dui, Shubin Si)....Pages 270-284
 On the Equivalence of the Coefficient of Variation Ordering and the Lorenz Ordering Within Two-Parameter Families  (Yugu Xiao, Jing Yao)....Pages 285-294
 Statistical Inference of the Competing Risks Model with Modified Weibull Distribution Under Adaptive Type-II Progressive Hybrid Censoring  (Wang Yan, Shi Yimin)....Pages 295-312
Front Matter ....Pages 313-313
 Functional Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Multiclass Queues with Preemptive Priority Service Discipline: The Overloaded Case  (Yongjiang Guo, Xiyang Hou)....Pages 315-343
 Functional Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Multiclass Queues with Preemptive Priority Service Discipline: The Underloaded and Critically Loaded Cases  (Yongjiang Guo, Xiyang Hou)....Pages 344-360
 Tail Asymptotics for the Waiting Time in an M/G/1/ROS Vacation Queue with Regularly-Varying Service  (Bin Liu)....Pages 361-373
 Strategic Joining in an M/M/1 Constant Retrial Queue with Reserved Idle Time Under N-Policy  (Jinting Wang, Lulu Li)....Pages 374-388
Front Matter ....Pages 389-389
 Sequential Common Change Detection and Isolation of Changed Panels in Panel Data  (Yanhong Wu)....Pages 391-409
 A Production-Inventory System with a Service Facility and Production Interruptions for Perishable Items  (Dequan Yue, Sai Wang, Yuying Zhang)....Pages 410-428
 Deposit Design for a Production System with Impatient Customers  (Na Li, Wei Wang, Rui-Na Fan)....Pages 429-445
 A Route Option for Different Commodity Groups in International Trade: China Pakistan Economic Corridor  (Usman Akbar, Rui-Na Fan, Quan-Lin Li)....Pages 446-464
 An Improved Strong Connectivity Discriminant Algorithm for Complex Directed Networks  (Cheng-Hong Wang, Zhuo Wang, Zhen-Dong Wu)....Pages 465-474
 Four Extensions of Poisson Distribution: Properties and Different Methods of Estimation  (Zhigao Chen, Renyan Jiang)....Pages 475-488
Back Matter ....Pages 489-497