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David Coit taught a reliability workshop sponsored by the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and held at Beihang University, Beijing,
China, during July 7 to 18, 2008 (other instructors were Min Xie, Ming Zuo & Gregory Levitin)
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David Coit presented a seminar at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China on July 11, 2008
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Best CDs of 2007 List has now been
compiled ®
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David Coit attended the Applied
Reliability Symposium (ARS) from June 17 to 20, 2008 in Reno, NV, and
presented a talk titled "Reliability Importance Measures Considering
User-Specific Applications & Uncertainty" |
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David Coit traveled to Edmonton, Alberta
on June 5 & 6, 2008 to participate as part of the PhD dissertation
committee for Wei Li at the University of Alberta, and to present a seminar.
Great
Job Wei!! Congratulations! |
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Syracuse University
is the 2008 NCAA Lacrosse champions for the 10th time !!! |
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David Coit attended the
Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) in Vancouver,
Canada in May 2008. He was a member of the organizing committee and
co-chair of the IERC Operations Research Track, and co-authored
five papers in the
conference proceedings (written by excellent former and current graduate
students!) |
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The paper
"Unbiased Variance Estimates for System
Reliability Estimate Using Block Decompositions" (by Tongdan Jin & David
Coit) had been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
Reliability. |
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Good season for my alma maters!!
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Cornell University is the
2007-2008 Ivy League basketball champion |
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University of Pittsburgh is
the 2007-2008 Big East basketball champion |
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Jamesville DeWitt High
School is the 2007-2008 New York State Class A basketball champion |
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The paper "Design
Allocation of Multi-state Series-Parallel Systems for Power Systems
Planning: A Multiple Objective Evolutionary Approach," (by Taboada,
Espiritu & Coit) has been accepted in the Journal of Risk & Reliability.
This is my 50th journal publication.
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David Coit presented a 4-hour tutorial
"Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods in Reliability" at the
2008 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) on January
28, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV.
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David Coit traveled to Thailand in
November 2007. He presented seminars at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok,
on November 8, and at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok on November 9. He also presented two papers at the International
Conference on Quality & Reliability (ICQR 5), Chiang Mai.
Thanks Yui!
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Reliability Engineering & System Safety
has listed their 25
hottest
papers (most downloaded) from July to September 2007. They include:
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#13 -
"Optimization of System
Reliability in the Presence of Common Cause Failures," Jose
Ramirez-Marquez & David Coit, Reliability Engineering & System Safety,
Vol. 92, No. 10, October 2007. |
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#15 -
"Multi-Objective
Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms: A Tutorial," Abdullah Konak,
David Coit & Alice Smith, Reliability Engineering & System Safety,
vol. 91, no. 9, September 2006. |
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#17 -
"Multi-state Component
Criticality Analysis for Reliability Improvement in Multi-state
Systems," Jose Ramirez-Marquez & David Coit, Reliability Engineering
& System Safety, Vol. 92, No. 12, December 2007. |
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Jose Espiritu defended his PhD dissertation, System Reliability
Estimation & Component Replacement Analysis for Electricity Transmission
& Distribution Systems, on Thursday, July
19, 2007. He
has
accepted a job as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial
Engineering at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) starting Fall 2007 -
congratulations!!
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David
Coit traveled to Stavanger, Norway in June 2007 to present two papers at
the European Safety & Reliability Conference (ESREL) and to see
the Fjords!
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Heidi Taboada defended her PhD
dissertation, Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms Considering
Objective Preferences & Solution Clusters, on April 25, 2007.
She has accepted a job as an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Industrial Engineering at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) starting
Fall 2007-
congratulations!!
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The paper "Practical Solutions for
Multi-Objective Optimization: An Application to System Reliability
Design Problems," by Heidi Taboada, Fatema Baheranwala, David Coit & Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn, is the #1
hottest paper (most downloaded) from October to December
2006 in the journal Reliability Engineering & System Safety
®
link.
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The paper "Multi-Objective
Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms: A Tutorial," by Abdullah Konak,
David Coit & Alice Smith, is the #1
hottest
paper (most
downloaded) from July to September
2006 in the journal Reliability Engineering & System Safety
®
link |
IITRI
is now called Alion Science & Technology Corp.
