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David Coit attended
the NSF workshop on Sensing and Prognostics for Scalability of Nanomanufacturing
at Northeastern University, Boston, MA from
November 2-4, 2009.
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David Coit & Hatice Tekiner will attend
the 3rd Annual Trans-Atlantic Infraday Conference on Applied
Infrastructure Modeling and Policy Analysis in Washington DC on 13
November 2009. Hatice will present the paper "Effects of Smart Grid
Technologies on Generation Expansion Plans" (by Tekiner, Coit & Felder). |
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Mid-year report! Some recommended
CDs from 2009:
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Dave Alvin &
The Guilty Women - self-titled |
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Todd Snider -
The Excitement Plan |
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Son Volt -
American Central Dust |
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David Coit is
President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Operations
Research (OR) Division for 2009-2010.
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The paper
“Reliability and Maintenance Modeling for Systems Subjected to Multiple
Dependent Competing Failure Processes” (by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng and
Dave Coit) is submitted to IIE Transactions in August 2009.
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Reliability Engineering & System Safety
has listed their 25
hottest
papers (most downloaded) from April to June 2009. They include:
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Rutgers
University & Alion Science and Technology have been awarded a grant
"Development of Reliability Models to Support the Recovery Gear Service
Life Analysis Program" (Principal Investigator: David Coit) from the
U.S. Naval Air Engineering Station (NAVAIR/NAES).
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The
ICRMS conference
was held on July 21 to July 25, 2009 in Chengdu, China. I was not there,
but I wish I was! The
following papers were presented:
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Review &
Comparison of System Reliability Optimization Algorithms Considering
Reliability Estimation Uncertainty (by David Coit, Tongdan Jin &
Hatice Tekiner), to be
presented by Dr. Tongdan Jin |
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Multi-state
Component Importance Analysis using Multi-state Multi-valued Decision
Diagrams (by Akhilesh Shrestha, Liudong Xing & David Coit), to be presented by Dr. Liudong Xing |
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I miss Lijuan Shen
!!!!!!!
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The paper "Data
Survivability vs. Security in Information Systems," by Gregory Levitin,
Kjell Hausken, Heidi Taboada & David Coit, was recently completed
and submitted to
IEEE Transactions on
Reliability special issue on reliability and risk assessment of
complex systems.
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Reliability Engineering & System Safety
has listed their 25
hottest
papers (most downloaded) from January to March 2009. They include:
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Rutgers ISE undergraduate student Kevin
Tang has been selected as a Rutgers Energy Discovery Summer Fellow to
work on the project "Using Linear Programming to Solve the Single Period
Multi-objective Power Generation Expansion Planning Problem." Faculty
advisers for the project are Frank Felder & David Coit.
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The
IERC conference
was held on May 31 to June 3, 2009 in Miami, FL. The following
papers were presented:
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Reliability
Modeling for MEMS Devices Subjected to Multiple Dependent Competing
Failure Processes (by Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng & David Coit), presented by Hao
Peng |
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Solving the
Single-period Multi-objective Power Generation Expansion Planning
Problem (by Hatice Tekiner, David Coit & Frank Felder), presented by Hatice Tekiner |
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Syracuse University
is the 2009 NCAA Lacrosse champions for the 11th
time beating Cornell
Big Red
10-9 in overtime
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Ms. Hatice Tekiner
successfully presented her PhD proposal on May 12, 2009. The title of her PhD
proposal is "Multi-Objective Stochastic Models for Electricity
Generation Expansion Planning Problems Considering Risk."
Congratulations
Hatice !!
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David Coit, Hatice
Tekiner and Frank Felder presented a talk titled "Modeling Trade-offs
between Costs, Reliability & Air Emissions for Data Centers" at the
Rutgers
Workshop on Green Computing on May 4, 2009.
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The Rutgers
Industrial & Systems Engineering department is ranked
#19 in the USA in the industrial/manufacturing engineering category
according to the US News and World Report (USNWR) rankings for 2009.
This is nothing to be proud of because we need to improve and move up
the list! However, we are the highest ranked engineering department at
Rutgers.
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Reliability Engineering & System Safety
has listed their 25
hottest
papers (most downloaded) from October to December 2008. They include:
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#4 - "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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#13 -
"A generic method for estimating system reliability using Bayesian
networks," Ozge Doguc & Jose Ramirez-Marquez, Reliability Engineering
& System Safety, vol. 94, no. 2, February 2009. |
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The paper "A Decision Analytic Approach
for Technology Portfolio Prioritization: Aviation Safety Applications"
(by Varun Sharma, David Coit, Ahmet Oztekin & James Luxhøj) has been
accepted for publication in Journal of Risk Research. Good job
Varun !!
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The paper "Neural Network Models to
Anticipate Failures of Airport Ground Transportation Vehicle Doors" (by Alice Smith, David Coit & YC Liang) has been accepted for publication in
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)
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Best CDs of 2008 List has now been
compiled
link
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Basketball News:
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Jamesville
DeWitt High School is the New York State 2008-2009 Class A basketball
champions - for the second year in a row!
link |
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Cornell
University is the 2009-2009 Ivy League champions |
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The paper
"A Two-stage Approach for Multi-objective Decision Making with
Applications to System Reliability Optimization" (by Zhaojun Li, Haitao
Liao & David Coit)
has been accepted for publication in
Reliability
Engineering & System Safety.
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Hail to the Pittsburgh
Steelers
!!!! Super Bowl champions !!!
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David Coit attended the 2009 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
(RAMS) in Ft. Worth, TX from January 26 to 29, 2009. He was awarded the
Alan O. Plait Tutorial Excellence Award for the best tutorial presented
at the previous RAMS. The award winning tutorial was
titled "Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods in Reliability."
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A special issue of the
Journal for Risk & Reliability has been published featuring extended
versions of the best papers from ESREL 2007.
The paper "Design
Allocation of Multi-state Series-Parallel Systems for Power Systems
Planning: A Multiple Objective Evolutionary Approach," by Heidi Taboada,
Jose Espiritu & David Coit is included. An online version of the journal
is available here
link
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Hatice Tekiner gave two
presentations at the INFORMS conference, October 12 to 15, 2008,
Washington DC. The presentations are:
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Multi-objective Power Generation Expansion Planning Problem with Monte
Carlo Simulation (by Frank Felder, Hatice Tekiner & David Coit), Sunday, Oct. 12 |
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System
Reliability Optimization with Uncertainty: Minimization of a Coefficient
of Variation Measure (by Hatice Tekiner & David Coit), Sunday, Oct. 12 |
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The movie "The
Express" is in theaters on October 10, 2008. Rent it
link
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The paper
"Component Replacement Models for Electricity Distribution Systems" (by
Jose Espiritu & David Coit)
has been accepted for publication in
The Engineering
Economist.
Good job Jose!!
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The paper
"Simultaneous Quality and
Reliability Optimization for Micro-engines Subject to Degradation" (by
Hao Peng, Qianmei Feng & David Coit) has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
Reliability.
Congratulations
May!!
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Reliability Engineering & System Safety
has listed their 25
hottest
papers (most downloaded) from April to June 2008. They include:
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#2 - "A
Heuristic for Solving the Redundancy Allocation Problem for Multistate
Series-Parallel Systems," Jose Ramirez-Marquez & David Coit,
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 83, no. 3, March 2004. |
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#19 -
"Reliability analysis of cluster-based ad-hoc networks," Jason Cook & Jose
Ramirez-Marquez, Reliability Engineering
& System Safety, vol. 93, no. 10, October
2008. |
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David Coit taught a reliability workshop, sponsored by the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 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 10, 2008
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Best CDs of 2007 List has now been
compiled
link |
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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) has 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
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