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PUBLISHED PAPERS

Existence and Uniqueness Questions for the Unitarity Equation, J. Math. Phys. 13 no. 11 (November 1972), 1764-1767.

The Unitarity Equation for Scattering in the Absence of Spherical Symmetry, J. Math. Phys. 15 no. 6 (June 1974), 745-747. Addendum, July 1974. 

Experimental Uncertainties in the Problem of the Unitarity Equation, J. Math. Phys. 16 no. 4 (April 1975), 823-828. 

The Unitarity Equations for Matrices and the Problem of Determining the Scattering Amplitude from the Differential Cross-Section (with J. Leise), SIAM J. Appl. Math. 30 no. 3 (May 1976), 407-420. 

Estimation of the Prior Distribution by Best Approximation in Uniformly Convex Function Spaces (with T. O'Bryan), Bull. Inst. Math. Acad. Sinica 7 no. 1 (March 1979), 69-85. 

Cutoff Calls and Telephone Equipment Reliability, Bell System Technical Journal 60 no. 8 (October 1981), 1861-1889. 

Quality Technology in Product Realization Systems (with B. F. Gundaker and D. E. Martinich), AT&T Technical Journal 66 no. 5 (September-October 1987), 5-20. 

Comparing Renewal Processes, with Application to Reliability Modeling of Highly Reliable Systems, Technometrics 31 no. 3 (August 1989), 357-364. 

Closed Newton-Cotes Quadrature Rules for Stieltjes Integrals and Numerical Convolution of Life Distributions, SIAM J. Scientific and Statistical Computing 11 no. 4 (July 1990), 732-748. 

Stretching the Paradigm for Software Reliability Assurance (with W. W. Everett), Software Quality Journal 3 no. 1 (1994), 1-26. 

A Point Process Model for the Reliability of a Maintained System Subject to General Repair (with L. A. Baxter and M. Kijima), Commun. Statist. - Stochastic Models 12 no. 1 (1996), 37-65. 

Some General Characteristics of Two-State Reliability Models for Maintained Systems (with N. A. Marlow), J. Appl. Prob. 32 (September 1995), 805-820. 

Numerical Solution of Renewal-Type Integral Equations, submitted to INFORMS Journal on Computing. Now in revision. 

Little's Theorem for Measures, in preparation. 

Service Reliability Theory and Engineering, Part I: Failure Modes and Failure Mechanisms. In preparation. 

Service Reliability Theory and Engineering, Part II: Modeling and Provisioning. In preparation. 

A Theory Unifying Robust Design and Reliability Engineering (with C. K. Chan and M. Mezhoudi), in preparation. 

Quasi-Renewal Processes: Theory and Applications, in preparation.
 

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Reliability Information Notebook, 7th edition (co-edited with Chun K. Chan), published by Bell Labs Advanced Technologies, 1995.

System Design Using Reliability Objectives, Case Study 6 (pp. 625-636) in Reliability Engineering by E. A. Elsayed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1996.

A Simple Model for the Effect of Manufacturing Process Quality on Product Reliability, in Integrated Models in Production Planning, Inventory, Quality, and Maintenance. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Confidence Intervals for Hardware Reliability Prediction (with Chun K. Chan).  In Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance, W. R. Blischke and D. N. P. Murthy, eds.  New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Reliability of a Class of Telephone Switching Systems (with B. S. Liebesman), Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (1982), 120-124.

Stationarity in Models of Successive Stochastic Phenomena, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mathematical Modeling (1987), 994-999.

A New Approach to the Analysis of Degradation Data Applied to MOS Devices (with M. B. Carey), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Reliability and Maintainability (October 1988), paper distributed at conference.

Dealing With Real Field Reliability Data: Circumventing Incompleteness By Modeling and Iteration (with L. A. Baxter), Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (1994), 255-262.

Analysis of Parameter-Degradation Data Using Life-Data Analysis Programs (with C. K. Chan andM. Boulanger), Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (1994), 288-291.

Life Estimation from Pooled Discrete Renewal Counts, Proceedings of the 1994 International Research Conference on Lifetime Data Models in Reliability and Survival Analysis, ed. N. P. Jewell et al. (1995), 331-338.

Sequential Sampling Plans for Early Life Reliability Assessment (with C. K. Chan and C. I. Saraidaridis), Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (1997), 131-135.

Design for Reliability: Processes, Techniques, Information Systems (with C. K. Chan). 1998 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium Tutorial Notes, 1-15.

Power-Related Failure Mechanisms in the Analysis of Wireless System Availability (with Chun K. Chan and T. L. Doumi), Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2000), 335-340.

Sparing Inventory Sizing for End-to-End Service Availability (with Chun K. Chan), Proceedings Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2001), 98-102.

An Integrated Framework for Reliability-Based Optical Network Design (with C. K. Chu and M. Mezhoudi), submitted to IEEE Globecom 2002.
 

GENERAL INTEREST ARTICLES

New Directions in Reliability, Applied Probability Newsletter (Summer 1990), 1-6.

The Three Careers of W. Edwards Deming.  Obituary published in the SIAM News, July 16, 1995.

What Every Graduating Reliability Engineer Should Know, Quality, Control, and Engineering Solutions (newsletter of the IIE Quality, Control, and Reliability Engineering Division, Alice Smith, ed.), summer 1998 issue, pp. 1,4,5.