Publications Relating to Reliability


  1. Rajgopal, J. and M. Mazumdar; "A Type II Censored, LogTest Time Based, Component Testing Procedure For Parallel Systems," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, R37, pp. 406-412, 1988.

  2. Rajgopal, J., M. Mazumdar, and T. H. Savits, "Some Properties of the Poisson Distribution with an Application to Reliability Testing," Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences Vol. 8, pp. 345-354, 1994. 

  3. Rajgopal, J., and M. Mazumdar, "Designing Component Test Plans for Series System Reliability via Mathematical Programming," Technometrics, Vol. 37, pp. 195-212, 1995. 

  4. Rajgopal, J., and M. Mazumdar, "Designing Component Test Plans for System Reliability via Mathematical Programming," International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 35-48, 1995. 

  5. Rajgopal, J., and M. Mazumdar, "A System Based Component Test Plan for a Series System, with Type-II Censoring," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 375-378, 1996. 

  6. Rajgopal, J., and M. Mazumdar, "Minimum Cost Component Test Plans for Evaluating Reliability of a Highly Reliable Parallel System," Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 44, pp. 401-418, 1997.

  7. Rajgopal, J., and M. Mazumdar, “System Based Component Test Plan for Reliability Inferences," Frontiers in Reliability, (Basu et al., Eds.), World Scientific Press, Singapore, pp. 295-302, 1998.

  8. Rajgopal, J., M. Mazumdar, and S. V. Majety, "Optimum Combined Tests for Systems and Components," IIE Transactions, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 481-490, 1999.

  9. Majety, S. V., M. Dawande and J. Rajgopal, "Optimal Reliability Allocation with Discrete Cost-Reliability Data for Components," Technical Report No. TR 96-4, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Operations Research, Vol. 47, No. 6 pp. 899-906, 1999.

  10. Mazumdar, M. and J. Rajgopal,  “Minimum Cost Test Plans for a Series System with Imperfect Interfaces," Technical Report No. 99-6, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, in Perspectives in Statistical Science, Basu, A.K., Ghosh, J.K., Sen, P.K. and Sinha, B.K. (Eds.), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, 2000. 

  11. Rajgopal, J., and M. Mazumdar, “System Based Component Test Plan for Reliability Demonstration: A Review and Survey of the State-of-the-Art," in Handbook of Statistics: Advances in Reliability, (N. Balakrishnan and C. R. Rao, Eds.), Vol. 20, 659-677, 2001.

  12. Rajgopal, J. and Mazumdar, M., "Modular Test Plans for Certification of Software Reliability," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 358-363, 2002.

  13. Paulk, M., Needy, K. L., and Rajgopal, J.; “Identifying Software Process Outliers,” ASQ Software Quality Professional, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 28-37, 2009.


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