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

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This book is dedicated to Jinhua Cao on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Jinhua Cao is one of the most famous reliability theorists. His main contributions include: published over 100 influential scientific papers; published an interesting reliability book in Chinese in 1986, which has greatly influenced the reliability of education, academic research and engineering applications in China; initiated and organized Reliability Professional Society of China (the first part of Operations Research Society of China) since 1981. The high admiration that Professor Cao enjoys in the reliability community all over the world was witnessed by the enthusiastic response of each contributor in this book. The contributors are leading researchers with diverse research perspectives. The research areas of the book iclude a broad range of topics related to reliability models, queueing theory, manufacturing systems, supply chain finance, risk management, Markov decision processes, blockchain and so forth. The book consists of a brief Preface describing the main achievements of Professor Cao; followed by congratulations from Professors Way Kuo and Wei Wayne Li, and by Operations Research Society of China, and Reliability Professional Society of China; and further followed by 25 articles roughly grouped together. Most of the articles are written in a style understandable to a wide audience. This book is useful to anyone interested in recent developments in reliability, network security, system safety, and their stochastic modeling and analysis. 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