报告题目：MULTI-STATE NETWORK RELIABILITY EVALUATION

报 告 人：Mingjian Zuo教授

讲座时间：2018年4月25日（周三）上午10：00

讲座地点：航空楼B座第一会议室B410

邀 请 人：司书宾 教授

承办学院：必威

联 系 人：司书宾

联系电话：139 9136 3388

报告简介: A multi-state network under consideration consists of a source node, a sink node, and some independent failure prone components in between. The components can work at different levels of capacity. For such a network, we are interested in evaluating the probability that the flow from the source node to the sink node is equal to or greater than a demanded flow of d units. A general method for reliability evaluation of such multi-state networks is using minimal path (cut) vectors. A minimal path vector to system state d is called a d-MP. The reliability of such a network can be defined as the probability of the component state vector being not smaller than at least one of the d-MPs. Efficient evaluations of the reliability of such a network is essential for its reliability assurance. In this presentation, we report our recent progress in improving algorithms for efficient evaluation of network reliability. These include methods for generating minimal path sets for binary network, generating d-MPs for multi-state networks, and network reliability evaluation using the sum of disjoint products approach and the state space decomposition approach.

报告人简介: Dr. Mingjian Zuo received the B.S. degree in agricultural engineering, in 1982, from Shandong Institute of Technology, Shandong, China, and the M.S. degree, in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree, in 1989, both in industrial engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. His research interests include system reliability analysis, maintenance modeling and optimization, signal processing, and fault diagnosis. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, a Department Editor of IIE Transactions, a Regional Editor of International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management, and an Editorial Board Member of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, International Journal of Quality, Reliability and Safety Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), a Founding Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), and a Senior Member of IEEE.