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IEEE Reliability Society “Transactions on Reliability” publication focus on Prognostic & Health Management

The IEEE “Transactions on Reliability” publication, the flagship archival peer review journal of the IEEE Reliability Society, supports a growing community of research in the field of Prognostic and Health Management (PHM).  The publication has received, peer reviewed, and delivered an increasing number of quality accepted papers in the PHM field over the years.  For the past couple years, the Reliability Society’s initiation and sponsorship of the PHM conference has seen that conference become very impressive, supporting PHM research and yielding additional PHM papers in special sections of the Transactions.  As we continue to produce these special sections with invited extended papers from the PHM conference, we also solicit additional, independently produced, research and application papers in PHM as well.

In the June 2009 issue of the Transactions on Reliability, we published a special section on Prognostics and Health Management, extended papers from the first international IEEE PHM conference in 2008 in Denver, CO, USA; and the 3rd World Congress WECAM 2008 Conference in Beijing, China.   Titles of those papers were; “Modeling of IC Socket Contact Resistance for Reliability and Health Monitoring Applications,” “Precursor Parameter Identification for Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) Prognostics,” “A Generic Prognostic Methodology Using Damage Trajectory Models,” “Connected Vehicle Diagnostics and Prognostics, Concept, and Initial Practice,” “A Novel, Fast, Reliable Data Transmission Algorithm for Wireless Machine Health Monitoring,” and “A Methodology for Determining the Return on Investment Associated With Prognostics and Health Management.”

In the March 2011 issue of the Transactions on Reliability, we published a special section on systems Prognostics and Health Management with extended papers from the PHM Macau 2010 Conference.  Titles of those papers were “Fusion Approach for Prognostics Framework of Heritage Structure,” “Combined Probability Approach and Indirect Data-Driven Method for Bearing Degradation Prognostics,” “Gear Damage Assessment Based on Cyclic Spectral Analysis,” “Electrostatic Monitoring of Gas Path Debris for Aero-engines,” “Machine Condition Classification Using Deterioration Feature Extraction and Anomaly Determination,” and “Recent Research and Developments in Temporal and Spatiotemporal Surveillance for Public Health.”

As our Transactions is an archival quality, peer review journal, each paper based on work presented at the conferences was an extension of the related conference paper, with significant additional contribution to warrant acceptance and publication.  Beyond these specially solicited papers, our Transactions has also published independent papers on PHM topics in almost every issue since 2009. 

To encourage more interest and activity in this important research area, the IEEE Reliability Society has decided to support two special sections on PHM in 2012, tentatively targeting the second and fourth issues, pending sufficient submissions.  See a recent issue of the official Call For Papers (below), or simply submit your unique, quality, critical work to jrupe@ieee.org in MSWord or PDF format, identifying in the correspondence that you wish your paper to be considered for the special PHM sections of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability.  

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Section of IEEE Transactions on Reliability on Prognostic & Health Management

Papers are invited for a special section of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability publication. PHM has emerged as a key enabling technology to provide early warning of impending failure and decision support in a variety of applications including electronics, smart grid, distributed, networked and cloud computing, aerospace and defense applications, and fleet-industrial maintenance.  Topics to be included in this special section on Prognostic Health Management include the three topical areas of principles, systems design and implementation and applications:

ð        Principles: Physics of failure, Sensors and devices, Structural sensing, Modeling and simulation, Data-driven methods for anomaly detection, diagnosis, and prognosis, Model-based methods for fault detection, diagnostics, and prognosis, Multi-sensor fusion principles for prognostics, Logic / reasoning techniques, Verification, validation, and maturation, Benchmarking, Affordability Aspects and the Business Case for PHM.

ð        Systems Design and Implementation: Systems Engineering for PHM, Requirements Development and Specification, Standards and methodologies, Health Management system design and engineering, Automated reconfiguration, Uncertainty quantification and statistical analysis, Component-level PHM, Software health management, Nondestructive Evaluation  Technologies with PHM Utilization, Decision Support and Simulation, PHM Computer-Aided Engineering Technologies / Applications, Integrated Structural / Frame Health Management.

ð        Applications: PHM applications in Power Smart Grid technology , PHM in Distributed, Networked and Cloud Computing, PHM for electronics components and systems, Aerospace and Defense Applications, Fleet / Industrial PHM based maintenance management, Other innovative industrial applications, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), Informed logistics, Lessons Learned from PHM systems design and integration.

Submission of Manuscripts: Submit manuscripts directly to the Managing Editor and CC the special section editor. We accept only electronic submissions, so email is the preferred method.

Managing Editor: Jason Rupe, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Email: Jrupe@ieee.org

Special-Section Editor: Pradeep Lall, T. Walter Professor and Center Director, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, NSF CAVE³ Electronics Research Center, Phone:334-844-3424, Email: lall@auburn.edu