Research in Logistics, Readiness, Reliability and Quality Control.

Abstract

This is a final report which summarizes the research conducted under the referenced contract, on topics motivated by logistics, reliability, life testing and quality control problems. The topics covered included, in alphabetical order, accelerated life testing and dose-response studies, analysis of queueing systems, decision models for missile systems, foundational issues in treatment of uncertainties, Kalman filtering, multivariate distributions in reliability, software reliability modelling and time-series analysis of software failure data, use of expert opinion in reliability and fault tree analysis. Most of the work undertaken has appeared or will appear in print as journal articles. The other work is currently under review for various professional journals. Keywords: Adaptive filtering; Autoregressive models.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 14, 1987
Accession Number
ADA180462

Entities

People

  • Nozer Singpurwalla

Organizations

  • George Washington University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Delphi Method
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • Filtration
  • Kalman Filtering
  • Logistics
  • Quality Control
  • Reliability
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Library and Information Science
  • Regression Analysis.