MMR 2015 - Tokyo (The Ninth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability)

It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend and contribute to the 9th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR2015) which will take place in Tokyo, Japan, on June 1-4, 2015, hosted by the Reliability Engineering Association of Japan.

The MMR conferences serve as a forum for discussing fundamental issues on mathematical methods in reliability theory and its applications. It is a forum that brings together reliability engineers in various fields, quality and safety experts, statisticians and data scientists, from within a central focus on reliability. As a major international forum on reliability, it attracts increasing number of researchers from all continents of the world.

The topics of the Conference include (but are not limited to):

I. Probabilistic methods

• Combinatorial & Graph methods (fault trees, binary decision diagrams, Petri-nets, etc.)
• Stochastic processes
• Markov & semi-Markov analysis
• Stochastic Petri Nets
• k-out-of-n systems
• Consecutive k-out-of-n systems
• Bound and Approximations
• Phase type distributions
• Failure Delay Systems
• Risk & Safety assessment
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Computer-aided model generation

II. Statistical models

• Parametric, non-parametric and semi-parametric estimations
• Lifetime data analysis
• Reliability Big Data
• On-Line Monitoring
• PHM (prognostic health management)
• Tests and accelerated tests
• Return of experience
• Bayesian Reliability estimation
• Statistical modeling analysis of repairable systems

III. Applications

• Computational methods, computer-aided model generation, case studies and application software in technical systems: power engineering (power systems, thermal and nuclear power plants), electrotechnics (power apparatus), electronics and mechanics.

Deadline: December 31, 2014

Please follow the instruction for authors and submit your extended abstract to EasyChair for MMR2015.

All speakers will have to submit their extended abstracts (4-8 pages, with the templates provided below) in PDF format to EasyChair for MMR2015 by December 31, 2014. The maximum length of these extended abstracts is 8 pages. You can use LaTeX2e or Microsoft Word to create your extended abstract. But you are asked to submit your extended abstract in PDF format.

Extended abstracts should be submitted to EasyChair for MMR2015.

Download the templates below.

An Acrobat PDF version of the final submission of your extended abstract should also be provided. We strongly recommend you to create papers using LaTeX2e.

We use EasyChair, which is a conference management system, for handling your submissions. This is an independent service and you will be asked to create a user account on their website, to log into EasyChair for MMR2015.

• If you have never used EasyChair, as an author or a chair, please open up EasyChair for MMR2015, click “Sign up for an account”, and follow the instructions. You will be sent an email requesting your contact information, and to confirm your account. After this you will be able to log in: click “New Submission” to submit your paper. After creating your account you may modify your personal information and submit a paper at any time
• If you have your own EasyChair account, please log in with your account.
• If you have forgotten your EasyChair password, visit the EasyChair password recovery page.

Here is a detailed instruction on how to use EasyChair.

Invited sessions are 90 minutes - 3 talks in a particular session.

• Plenary speakers: 45 minutes with 5 minutes discussion time (50 minute session)
• Invited speakers: 25 minutes with 5 minutes discussion time (30 minute talk)
• Contributed speakers: 15 minutes with 5 minutes discussion time (20 minute talk)

Time for each session.

• Invited sessions are 90 minutes.
• Contributed sessions are 60-120 minutes.

The class file mmr2015.cls is equivalent to mmr2013.cls, which was used for MMR 2013. This class file has its origin at latex8.sty, a style file for IEEE CS Conference, and has been adopted to LaTeX2e and maintained by people around APARM. We appreciate their efforts and generosity.

If you have any questions, please send an email to mailto:concierge@mmr2015.org or a facsimile to fax:+81-42-443-5273. Further contact information can be found at this page.