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Preface: Journal Papers
Preface: Journal Papers
Preface: Journal Papers
Most of the chapters presented in this dissertation are the extensions of the following
journal and conference papers, which are published, accepted or submitted during my PhD studies:
Journal Papers
for Complex Medical Devices. Quality and Reliability Engineering International 27(1): 71-
84. This paper won the Best Student Paper Award 2010 of the American College of
for a Complex Repairable System. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 95(9): 944-952.
[Used in Chapter 5]
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dx.doi.org/10.1057/jors.2010.106). This paper received the 3rd place at the Best Student
Paper Award 2011 of the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE). [Used in
Chapter 3]
4. Taghipour S and Banjevic D (2011). Periodic Inspection Optimization Models for a Repairable
System Subject to Hidden Failures. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 60(1): 275285. [Used in
Chapter 5]
5. Taghipour S and Banjevic D (2011). Trend Analysis of the Power Law Process Using
6. Taghipour S and Banjevic D (2010). Optimum Inspection Interval for a System Under Periodic
Chapter 5]
7. Taghipour S and Banjevic D (2011). Maximum likelihood estimation from interval censored
recurrent event data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (submitted in March 2011).
[Used in Chapter 4]
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Papers Published in the Conference Proceedings
10. Taghipour S, Banjevic D, and Jardine A K S (2010). An Inspection Optimization Model for a
System subject to Hidden Failures. Proceedings of the 2010 ICOMS Asset Management
11. Taghipour S and Banjevic D (2011). Trend Analysis of the Power Law Process with
Censored Data. Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2011.
[Used in Chapter 4]
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