Chapter 1. Multicriteria Decision Methods for RRM Models -- Chapter 2. Comparing Cardinal and Ordinal Ranking in MCDM Methods -- Chapter 3. Evaluating Multi-Criteria Decisions Under Conditions of Strong Uncertainty -- Chapter 4. A Framework for Building Multicriteria Decision Models with regard...

Advances in monitoring techniques have led to the increasing use of prognostic information to reduce maintenance costs in wind power systems. However, when the prognostic information is not accurate and comprehensive enough, it is unreliable to determine maintenance actions for wind turbines...

Intuitively, activating the standby of a k-out-of-n:G system to the working state at the last moment fully utilizes the redundancy and hence would result in a more reliable system; however, this is not always true as shown in a counterexample. This paper presents several scenarios under which,...

Ordering properties on order statistics from heterogeneous observations have been paid lots of attention. This article devotes to investigating the ordering properties on order statistics from statistically dependent observations. We build the likelihood ratio order and the (reversed) hazard...

For heterogeneous Weibull samples with a common shape parameter and weakly majorized scale parameters, we study the likelihood ratio order and the stochastic order between minimums of independent and dependent samples, respectively. Also, an application in fabric strength is presented.