==== Invited Sessions ====

^Topics^Organizers^Affiliation^Country^
|ACCELERATED TESTING|Mikhail Nikulin|[[http://www.univ-bordeauxsegalen.fr/|Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux]]|France|
|ADVANCED MAINTENANCE STRATEGY|Yisha Xiang|Sung Yat-sen University|China|
| :::  |Nan Chen|National University of Singapore|Singapore|
|ADVANCED TOPICS IN IMPORTANCE MEASURES FOR SYSTEM RELIABILITY|XIaoyan Zhu|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences|China|
|AGING AND MAINTENANCE IN TECHNICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS|Maxim Finkelstein|[[http://www.ufs.ac.za|University of the Free State]]|South Africa|
|ANALYSIS OF IMPERFECT RELIABILITY AND SURVIVAL DATA I|Hon Keung Tony Ng|[[http://www.smu.edu/|Southern Methodist University]]|USA|
|ANALYSIS OF IMPERFECT RELIABILITY AND SURVIVAL DATA II|Hon Keung Tony Ng|[[http://www.smu.edu/|Southern Methodist University]]|USA|
|BAYESIAN METHODS FOR COMPLEX SYSTEM RELIABILITY|Alyson G. Wilson|North Carolina State University|USA|
|BAYESIAN RELIABILITY INFERENCE AND WARRANTY PREDICTIONS|Sheng-Tsaing Tseng|[[http://www.nthu.edu.tw/english/|Tsing-Hua University]]|Taiwan|
|COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN RELIABILITY|Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan|[[http://www.mcmaster.ca/|McMaster University]]|Canada|
|DETERIORATION MODELS|SOPHIE MERCIER|Université de Pau|France|
|DISTRIBUTIONS IN RELIABILITY AND APPLICATIONS|Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan|[[http://www.mcmaster.ca/|McMaster University]]|Canada|
|INEQUALITIES FOR ORDER STATISTICS AND SYSTEM LIFETIMES|Tomasz Rychlik|[[http://​www.english.pan.pl/​|Polish Acedemy of Sciences]]|Poland|
|LIFETIME DATA ANALYSIS|Mei Ling Ting Lee|[[http://www.umd.edu/|University of Maryland]]|USA|
|MAINTENANCE MODELING I|Min Xie|[[http://www.cityu.edu.hk/|City University of Hong Kong]]|China|
|MAINTENANCE MODELING II|Tetsushi Yuge|[[http://www.mod.go.jp/nda/english/|National Defense Academy]]|Japan|
|MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF DEGRADATION DATA|William Q. Meeker|[[http://www.iastate.edu/|Iowa State University]]|USA|
|MULTI-STATE AND CONTINUOUS-STATE SYSTEM RELIABILITY|Anatoly Lisnianski|[[https://www.iec.co.il/EN/IR/Pages/default.aspx/|The Israel Electric Corporation Ltd.]]|Israel|
| :::  |Gregory Levitin|[[https://www.iec.co.il/EN/IR/Pages/default.aspx/|The Israel Electric Corporation Ltd.]]|Israel|
|NETWORK RELIABILITY|Ming J. Zuo|University of Alberta|Canada|
|NEW APPROACHES IN RELIABILITY ESTIMATION AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTING|Bo Henry Lindqvist|[[http://www.ntnu.no/|Norwegian University of Science and Technology]]|Norway|
|ONLINE MONITORING|Kazuyuki Suzuki|[[http://www.uec.ac.jp/eng/|University of Electro-Communications]]|Japan|
|OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN SYSTEM RELIABILITY THEORY|Hisashi Yamamoto|Tokyo Metropolitan University|Japan|
| :::  |Won Young Yun|Pusan National University|Korea|
|PHM(PROGNOSTIC AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT)|Ming J. Zuo|[[http://www.ualberta.ca/|University of Alberta]]|Canada|
| :::  |Zhiliang Liu|University of Electronic Science and Technology of China|China|
|PROGRESSIVE CENSORING AND APPLICATIONS|Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan|[[http://www.mcmaster.ca/|McMaster University]]|Canada|
|QUANTILE MODELING IN RELIABILITY|P.G. Sankaran|[[http://www.cusat.ac.in/|Cochin University of Science and Technology]]|India|
|RELIABILITY, SAFETY, RISKS|Tim Bedford|[[http://www.strath.ac.uk/|University of Strathclyde]]|UK|
|REPAIRABLE SYSTEMS|Paul Kvam|[[http://www.richmond.edu/|University of Richmond]]|USA|
| :::  |Vasiliy Krivtsov|[[http://www.ford.com/|Ford Motor Company]]|USA|
|SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF RELIABILITY SYSTEMS|Vladimir Rykov|[[http://www.gubkin.ru/en/|Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas]]|Russia|
|SOFTWARE SYSTEM RELIABILITY I|Tadashi Dohi|[[http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/|Hiroshima University]]|Japan|
|SOFTWARE SYSTEM RELIABILITY II|Tadashi Dohi|[[http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/|Hiroshima University]]|Japan|
|SOFTWARE SYSTEM RELIABILITY III|Tadashi Dohi|[[http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/|Hiroshima University]]|Japan|
|SOFTWARE SYSTEM RELIABILITY IV|Tadashi Dohi|[[http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/|Hiroshima University]]|Japan|
|STATISTICAL INNOVATIONS IN FAILURE TIME MODELING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS|Ananda Sen|University of Michigan|USA|
|STATISTICAL METHODS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE|Catherine Huber|[[https://www.univ-paris5.fr/|Université Paris Descartes]]|France|
|STOCHASTIC DEPENDENCE IN RELIABILITY|Maochao Xu|[[http://illinoisstate.edu/|Illinois State University]]|USA|
|STOCHASTIC ORDERS IN RELIABILITY THEORY|Maochao Xu|[[http://illinoisstate.edu/|Illinois State University]]|USA|
|STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY AND AGING PROPERTIES OF RELIABILITY SYSTEMS|Markos V. Koutras|[[http://www.unipi.gr/|University of Piraeus]]|Greece|
|THEORY AND METHODS FOR SYSTEM RELIABILITY|Li-Rong Cui|[[http://english.bit.edu.cn|Beijing Insititute of Technology]]|China|
|WARRANTY DATA ANALYSIS|Stefanka Chukova|[[http://www.victoria.ac.nz/|Victoria University of Wellington]]|New Zealand|
| :::  |Yu Hayakawa|[[http://www.waseda.ac.jp/|Waseda University]]|Japan|