International Journal of Performability Engineering 

Volume 6, Number 1, January 2010

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Editorial Krishna B. Misra Paper 1 - pp. 3 - 18 Probabilistic Safety Criteria and Core Degradation Mechanism ALOK MISHRA1, MAHESH D. PANDEY2, and MICHAEL KNOCHENHAUER3 1 ScandPower Risk Management Inc., 1331 Lamar, 4 Houston Centre, Suite- 1270, Houston, TX-77010, USA 2 Institute for Risk Research, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canad 3 Relcon ScandPower AB, Englundavägen 13, P.O. Box 1288, SE-172 25 Sundbyberg,   Stockholm, Sweden Paper 2 - pp. 19- 33 The Influence of Risk Prevention Measures on the Frequency of Failure of Piping MARIA FRANCESCA MILAZZO1, GIUSEPPE MASCHIO2 and GIOVANNI UGUCCIONI3 1 DCIIM, University of Messina, salita Sperone 31, 98166, Messina, ITALY  2 DIPIC, University of Padova, via Marzolo 9, 35131, Padova, ITALY 3 D'Appolonia S.p.A, via Martiri di Cefalonia 2, 20097, San Donato Milanese, ITALY Paper 3 - pp. 35 - 52 Rational Polynomial Hazard Functions M. BEBBINGTON1, C. D. LAI1, D. N.P. MURTHY2 and R. ZITIKIS3 1 Institute of Fundamental Sciences - Statistics, Massey University, Private Bag 11222,          Palmerston North New Zealand 2 Division of Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland, Q 4072, Australia 3 Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario,     London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada   Paper 4 - pp. 53 - 61 A Flow Importance Measure with Application to an Italian Transmission Power System CLAUDIO M. ROCCO S1, JOSÉ EMMANUEL RAMIREZ-MARQUEZ2, DANIEL E. SALAZAR A3 and ENRICO ZIO4 1 Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela 2 Stevens Institute of Technology, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, U.S.A. 3 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France 4 Politecnico di Milano, Italy Paper 5 - pp.63 - 76 Network Reliability Evaluation with Changes in Layout N. K. GOYAL Reliability Engineering Centre, IIT Kharagpur, INDIA Paper 6 - pp. 77 - 87 Reliability Modeling of a Port Oil Transportation System's Operation Processes KRZYSZTOF KOLOWROCKI and JOANNA SOSZYNSKA Gdynia Maritime University, Morska 81-87, 81-225 Gdynia, Poland Paper 7 - pp. 89 - 99 Linking Humanity with Performability through Social - technical Systems Theory JOHN P ULHØI and FRANCES JØRGENSEN Center for Organizational Renewal and Evolution, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University Haslegaardsvej 10, 8210 Aarhus V, Denmark SC IJPE 18 - pp. 100 - 102 Reliability Allocation for Improving the Robustness of an Engineering System QIANMEI FENG1 and DAVID W. COIT2 1 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA 2 Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA SC IJPE 21 - pp. 103 - 105 A Simple New Demerit System JUSTIN R CHIMKA and QIN HONG Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA