In this note, we’d like to talk about a recent paper (Karapetyan, Parkes, Gutin, Gagarin, Pattern-Based Approach to the Workflow Satisfiability Problem with User-Independent Constraints, J. AI Research, 66 (2019) 85–122) which, in our view, made an important contribution to the experimental...

Clustered data from a product’s reliability experiments may arise from many sources of heterogeneity in practice such as different test units suppliers, pieces of equipment, and operators. It is of interest for reliability practitioners to investigate how to plan such experiments with the aim...