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SPECIAL ISSUES OF IJPE

International Journal of Performability Engineering likes to keep its readers well-informed about the latest developments and trends taking place around the world in the area of performability engineering by inviting experts, specialists, and leading researchers to contribute to Special Issues of IJPE on topical concern related to performability engineering. In this section, we present the information about the special issues that have been already brought out as well the special issues that are due to appear in future. Further suggestions are welcome from the scientific community.

Summary of Special Issues Published

Year Vol. , Issue Theme Area of Performability Guest Editors
2006 Vol. 2, No. 3 Dependability Dependability of Software/ Computing Systems Ajit K. Verma, Parmod K. Kapur, India and Shunji Osaki, Japan
2007 Vol. 3, No. 1
Part I and Part II		 Risk and Safety Risk Management And Safety Engineering Vincent Ho, Hong Kong  and Takehisha Kohda, Japan
2008 Vol. 4, No. 1 Reliability Reliability and Quality in Design Hoang Pham and Suprasad V. Amari, USA
2008 Vol. 4, No. 3 Maintainability Reliability and Condition-based Maintenance Uday Kumar, Sweden
2008 Vol. 4, No. 4 Sustainability Sustainability Implications for Product Design: Some UK Perspective Rod Barratt, U.K.
2009 Vol. 5, No. 1 Survivability System Survivability and Defense against External Impacts Gregory Levitin, Israel
2009 Vol. 5, No. 3 Reliability Reliability Research in India Suprasad V. Amari, USA
2010 Vol. 6, No. 3 Reliability and Maintainability Developments in Mechanical System Reliability in China Liyang Xie, Northeastern University, China
2010 Vol. 6, No. 5 Reliability and Maintainability Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Daniel K. LAU Hong Kong and Sony Mathew, Maryland, USA
2011 Vol. 7, No. 3 Reliability Multi-State System Reliability Mustapha Nourelfath, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
2011 Vol. 7, No. 5 Dependability and Performability Performance and Dependability Modeling of Dynamic Systems Salvatore Distefano, Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Engineering Faculty, Italy and Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, Dept. of Electrical Engineering USA
2011 Vol.7, No. 5

Maintenance Engineering

including e-maintenance

 Current Trends in Maintenance Engineering Udai Kumar, Ramin Karim and Aditya Parida, Luleå Technical University, Sweden

 

Summary of Special Sections Published

Sometimes, we publish a number of papers organized in the form of a section of an issue of IJPE if we receive sufficient number of papers on any single topic of current interest or importance.

 

Year Vol. , Issue Theme Area of Performability Guest Editors
2010 Vol. 6, No. 6 Quality and Reliability Integration of Six Sigma with Reliability Thimmiah Gurunatha, U.S.A.
2011 Vol. 7, No. 1 Data Mining Data Mining in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Risk Management Claudio M. Rocco S. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Central de Venezuela



Summary of Special Issues Planned for Future

 

Dependability Dependability of Wireless Systems and Networks Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA and Prof. Suresh Rai, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
Quality Engineering New Trends in Quality Engineering and Management V. N. Achutha Naikan, Reliability Engineering Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
RAM Practices Best Practices in RAM and Asset Management

Timothy R. Collins, Reliability Consulting Engineer, GE Energy Greenville, SC , USA

Jagmeet Singh , Vice President , Global Chief Data Office Citi, Boston, MA, USA

Bhupesh K. Lad, Deprtment of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Insititute of Technology, Indore, India

 

Special Issue
on
New Trends in Quality Engineering and Management

Quality is one of the most important measures of performance of products, systems and services and therefore an important attribute of performability. The quality consciousness is as old as the first product itself. The concept of quality has progressively evolved over several decades since early 20th century and has now reached quite an advanced state of maturity. However, new methods and techniques are continuously evolved for meeting the present and future requirements of manufacturing, service, medical, food processing, infrastructural, communication, and several other important sectors of the industry. The present need is to develop and apply appropriate and sustainable methods of quality assurance in the new millennium. Therefore, it is thought appropriate to take stock of the status of state-of-the art and to acquaint with the new trends in the area of quality engineering and management by bringing out a special issue of International Journal of Performability Engineering. The objective is to provide a forum to exchange new ideas, methods and experiences among practitioners, researchers and theoreticians, which will help advance the state-of-the-art in this important area. The following topics are of special interest, but not limited to:
  • Design for Quality: ANOVA, Robust design, DOE
  • Multivariate Process Control & Process Capability
  • Engineering Process Control (EPC)/Automatic Process Control (APC)
  • Software quality
  • Quality assurance of composites, bio/nanotechnology products
  • Development of quality systems for various sectors such as manufacturing, service, medical/diagnostic, food processing, infrastructural, communication, etc..
  • Quality Management: TQM, Cost of quality
  • Quality Standards: ISO 9000, ISO 14000
  • Effect of supply chains, Lean concepts, JIT, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), and Serial manufacturing on product quality
  • Zero Defects, Six-Sigma, Twelve-Sigma applications
  • Acceptance Sampling Techniques
  • Case studies

Important Dates:

  • Deadline to submit title and extended abstract of paper: January 31, 2012
  • Deadline for submission of full paper:  February 29, 2012.
  • Notification of acceptance based on review:  May 31, 2012.
  • Final Submission:  July 31, 2012.
  • Expected date of publication of special issue: September, 2012.
All manuscript should be submitted electronically to the Special Issue Editor using email address, viz., naikan@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in with a cc to kbmisra@gmail.com . All submissions will be refereed through an IJPE standard peer review process.
Authors should follow the general submission guidelines for preparing the manuscript found at publisher’s web site http://www.ijpe-online.com/guidelines-for-contributions.html. Papers preferably with maximum length of not more than 10 printed pages submitted in the IJPE format will save time in processing. Please use the following page setup:
Paper size A4 (8.27” x 11.69”) with margins set as: Top- 2.8”, Bottom-1.2”, Left- 1.63”, Right-1.6” as the journal size is (7”x 9.5”).
Papers published in IJPE are automatically covered by several databases such as SCOPUS- Elsevier’s Abstract and citation database - one of the largest in the world, INSPEC, ProQuest, Google Scholar and other databases.

 

V.N. Achutha Naikan, Ph.D.

(Guest Editor)

Professor and Head

Reliability Engineering Centre

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur-721 302, India

Email: naikan@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in

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Special Issue
on
Best Practices in RAM and Asset Management

 

A special issue on Best Industrial Practices in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability (RAM) and Asset Management, as employed in various industries to improve system performance, is being planned by the International Journal of Performability Engineering. This special issue will provide a good snapshot of the practices used by reliability specialists in industries, organizations and Govt. Departments.
Original case studies from industries and organizations, as well as proof of concept papers, are sought. Papers submitted to this special issue should relate to work applied to real industrial problems and therefore theoretical, concept papers and reviews would not be encouraged. Sample topics include, but are not limited to the following:

 

  • System reliability estimation,
  • Design for reliability and maintainability,
  • Optimization of system reliability and availability,
  • Maintenance policies and maintenance optimization,
  • Asset maintenance,
  • Supportability issues in asset management,
  • Life cycle cost and asset management,
  • Field failure and/or repair data collection, analysis, data quality,
  • Effect of uncertainty in application of reliability and maintenance approaches,
  • Reliability estimation for actual operating/environmental conditions,
  • Use of expert knowledge for application of reliability and maintenance approaches,
  • Multivariate aging parameters to determine reliability,
  • Use of legacy systems to determine reliability scope of new products,
  • Reliability constraints impacting asset management policies,
  • System specific issues in RAM and Asset Management.



GUEST EDITORS:

  • Timothy R. Collins, Reliability Consulting Engineer, Product Safety & Life Cycle Reliability, Chief Engineers Office, GE Energy Greenville, SC. U.S.A.  Email: timothy1.collins@ge.com
  • Jagmeet Singh, Vice President, Global Chief Data Office, Citi, Boston, MA. U.S.A.  Email: jagmeet.singh@gmail.com
  • Bhupesh K. Lad, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Email: bklad@iiti.ac.in



IMPORTANT DATES:

  • Deadline to submit the title and extended abstract of the paper with references: February 29, 2012
  • Deadline for submission of full paper:  April 15, 2012.
  • Notification of acceptance based on peer review:  August 31, 2012.
  • Final version of manuscript for publication due on September 30, 2012.
  • Expected date of publication: November, 2012.

 

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Manuscript should be submitted electronically to any of the Special Issue Editors (email addresses given) with a cc to other guest editors and to kbmisra@gmail.com . The Guest Editors shall arrange and coordinate the IJPE standard peer review process and recommend the final list of papers to be published to the Editor-in-Chief. Therefore, all queries relating to the paper (until a paper is accepted) must be made to the guest editor whom the author had sent the manuscript originally.
To avoid delays, the authors are encouraged to follow the general submission guidelines for preparing the manuscript found at the publisher’s web site: http://www.ijpe-online.com/guidelines-for-contributions.html. Papers preferably with maximum length of not more than 10 printed pages submitted in the IJPE format will save time in processing. Please use the following page setup for the manuscript:
Paper size A4 (8.27” x 11.69”) with margins set as: Top- 2.8”, Bottom-1.2”, Left- 1.63”, Right-1.6” as the journal size is (7”x 9.5”).
Papers published in IJPE are automatically covered by several databases such as SCOPUS- Elsevier’s Abstract and citation database - one of the largest in the world, INSPEC (U.K.), ProQuest, Google Scholar and other databases.
 

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