Second Call for Papers

Submissions are now closed and the review process has started. The website is open only for resubmissions. All accepted, revised, camera ready papers formatted according to the style files (up to 8 pages for contributed papers, 12 pages for keynote papers) should be resubmitted by 25 August.

You are invited to participate in the 4th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling (APARM 2010) in Wellington, New Zealand, 2-4 December 2010. For the (updated) pdf version of the second Call for Papers, please click here.

Papers can be submitted here.

Sponsored by

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

In cooperation with

Operations Research Society of New Zealand
Operations Research Society of Japan
Reliability Engineering Association of Japan
IEICE Technical Group on Reliability, Japan
IEEE Reliability Society Japan Chapter
The Korean Reliability Society
The Korean Society of Quality Management
INFORMS Taiwan Chapter
Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers, Taiwan

Scope

Submissions from both industry and academia on all topics related to reliability modeling and design techniques for all kinds of systems are welcome. The topics include, but are not limited to:

network reliability and optimization	fault-tolerant computing
safety and risk assessment	software reliability and testing
maintenance modeling	internet reliability engineering
maintenance optimization	security and survivability analysis
survival analysis	Bayesian reliability
estimation and statistical tests	dependability modeling
reliability physics	communication systems
accelerated life testing	computer systems reliability
warranty analysis	manufacturing systems reliability
human reliability	design for six sigma

Honorary General Co-Chairs:

David Vere-Jones (David.Vere-Jones@msor.vuw.ac.nz) - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Daryl J. Daley (Daryl.Daley@anu.edu.au) - Australian National University, Australia

General Co-Chairs:

S. Chukova (stefanka@msor.vuw.ac.nz) - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
T. Dohi (dohi@rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp) - Hiroshima University, Japan

International Advisory Committee:

N. Balakrishnan (bala@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca) - McMaster University, Canada
W. Kuo (way@cityu.edu.hk) - City University of Hong Kong, China
T. N. Goh (isegohtn@nus.edu.sg) - National University of Singapore, Singapore
D. N. P. Murthy (p.murthy@uq.edu.au) - University of Queensland, Australia
S. Osaki (shunji@nanzan-u.ac.jp) - Nanzan University, Japan
D.-H. Park (dhpark@hallym.ac.kr) - Hallym University, Korea
K. S. Trivedi (kst@ee.duke.edu) - Duke University, USA
T. Nakagawa (toshi-nakagawa@aitech.ac.jp) - Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
K. C. Kapur (kkapur@u.washington.edu) - University of Washington, USA
S-Y Kuo (sykuo@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw) - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Program Co-Chairs:

John Haywood (John.Haywood@vuw.ac.nz) - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Li-Rong Cui (Lirongcui@bit.edu.cn) - Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Steering Committee Members:

T. Dohi (Chair) (dohi@rel.hiroshima-u.ac.jp) - Hiroshima University, Japan
W. Y. Yun (wonyun@pusan.ac.kr) - Pusan National University, Korea
S.-H. Sheu (shsheu@pu.edu.tw) - Providence University in Taichung, Taiwan
Min Xie (mxie@nus.edu.sg) - National University of Singapore, Singapore
H. Pham (hopham@rci.rutgers.edu) - Rutgers University, USA
S. O. Duffuaa (duffuaa@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa) - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Y.Hayakawa (yu.hayakawa@waseda.jp) - Waseda University, Japan
M. Johnston (Mark.Johnston@msor.vuw.ac.nz) - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
J.H. Cha (jhcha@ewha.ac.kr) - Ewha Womans University, Korea
C.-Y. Cheng (cycheng@cyut.edu.tw) - Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan