Mark Kaminskiy- PhD
- Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Mark Kaminskiy
- PhD
- Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
About
42
Publications
28,810
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
1,350
Citations
Introduction
Current institution
Additional affiliations
January 2010 - present
Position
- Engineer
Publications
Publications (42)
Abstract
—
Deployable subsystems are essential to mission
success of most spacecraft. These subsystems enable critical
functions including power, communications and thermal
control. The loss of any of these functions will generally result
in loss of the mission. These subsystems and their components
often consist of unique designs and applic...
A new entropic formulation of the uncertainty relation for position and momentum, and for energy and time, is proposed. This formulation is based on expressing the uncertainty measures (the standard deviations and the half-width at half maximum) in terms of entropies of the respective distributions. The left sides of the suggested uncertainty relat...
The problem of existence of maximum human lifespan is discussed. Assuming that the maximum human lifespan exists, a new lifespan distribution is suggested. In opposite to the popular lifespan distributions (Gompertz, Weibull, Extended Weibull, etc.) supported on the semi-infinite interval [0, ∞), the suggested lifespan distribution is supported on...
It can be difficult to provide unbiased assessment of demographic trends in large most populated countries because of the technological problems and political influences. Nevertheless, without understanding those unbiased tendencies it is impossible to assess and plan socio-economic activities of a state and its individual departments. It is import...
Application of some basic notions and statistics of ageing distributions used
in mathematical theory of reliability including the Gini-type index is
discussed as a methodological tool for investigation of human population ageing
and longevity. In opposite to the traditionally used median and mean lifetime,
the GTI requires only one calendar year sn...
Introduction
The main purpose of this book is to make modern mathematical reliability models available to reliability engineers and risk analysts, as well as to physicists (especially working in the physics of failure), biologists, gerontologists, and many others. The intention was to represent these models in simple terms, discussing in detail t...
A reliability trend/growth analysis methodology for satellite systems is suggested. A satellite system usually consists of many satellites successively launched over many years, and its satellites typically belong to different satellite generations. This paper suggests an approach to reliability trend/growth data analysis for the satellite systems...
This paper introduces a simple index that helps to assess the degree of aging or rejuvenation of repairable systems and non-repairable
systems (components). The index ranges from − 1 to 1. It is negative for the class of decreasing failure rate distributions
and point processes with decreasing ROCOF and is positive for the increasing failure rate d...
This paper considers a point process model with a monotonically decreasing or increasing ROCOF and the underlying distributions from the location-scale family, known as the geometric process (Lam, 1988). In terms of repairable system reliability analysis, the process is capable of modeling various restoration types including "better-than-new", i.e....
Evaluation in probabilistic terms of the real reliability of products is possible only on the basis of real statistical data obtained from special experiments or practical use. Adequately determining the form or class of the distribution function requires statistical data. Such data also provide the information to confirm prior hypotheses about dif...
This paper introduces a simple index that helps to assess the degree of aging or rejuvenation of a (non)repairable system. The index ranges from -1 to 1 and is negative for the class of decreasing failure rate distributions (or deteriorating point processes) and is positive for the increasing failure rate distributions (or improving point processes...
This article proposes a quantitative risk assessment and management framework that supports strategic asset-level resource allocation decision making for critical infrastructure and key resource protection. The proposed framework consists of five phases: scenario identification, consequence and criticality assessment, security vulnerability assessm...
This article develops a quantitative all-hazards framework for critical asset and portfolio risk analysis (CAPRA) that considers both natural and human-caused hazards. Following a discussion on the nature of security threats, the need for actionable risk assessments, and the distinction between asset and portfolio-level analysis, a general formula...
Corrections to (6) in "A simple procedure for Bayesian estimation of the Weibull distribution" (vol. 54, pp. 612-616, Dec 05) are presented here.
The article discusses some aspects of analogy between certain classes of distributions used as models for time to failure of nonrepairable objects, and the counting processes used as models for failure process for repairable objects. The notion of quantiles for the counting processes with strictly increasing cumulative intensity function is introdu...
Current naval vessel design requirements for reduced signature may drive industry toward unconventional hull forms, such as the tumblehome, for some vessels. There is a critical need to develop a system-based approach to intact and damaged dynamic capsize assessment that addresses risk identification and mitigation strategies, such as design method...
A system that includes a number of terrorist cells is considered. The cells can consist of one or more terrorists. The current number of terrorist cells is further denoted by N(t), where t is a current time counted from any appropriate origin. The objective is to find the evolution of the system in terms of N(t) and some interpretable parameters, s...
Practical use of Bayesian estimation procedures is often associated with difficulties related to elicitation of prior information, and its formalization into the respective prior distribution. The two-parameter Weibull distribution is a particularly difficult case, because it requires a two-dimensional joint prior distribution of the Weibull parame...
The article considers point processes most commonly used in reliability and risk analysis. Short-term and long-term behavior for the point processes used as models for repairable systems(1) are introduced. As opposed to the long term, the term short term implies that a process is observed during an interval limited by a time close to the mean (or t...
This undergraduate and graduate textbook provides a practical and comprehensive overview of reliability and risk analysis techniques. Written for engineering students and practicing engineers, the book is multi-disciplinary in scope. The new edition has new topics in classical confidence interval estimation; Bayesian uncertainty analysis; models fo...
A brief overview of the statistical aspects of warranty prediction
is given as an introduction. The main discussion then focuses on
warranty claim prediction for repairable products. Introduced by Kijima
and Sumita (1986), a g-renewal process (GRP) can be considered as a
model for major repair assumptions encountered in repairable product
reliabili...
The U.S. inland navigation infrastructure is deteriorating primarily due to the aging of its components and the operation at near to full capacity of the system's structures. Gates at navigation locks play an integral part in keeping navigation traffic continuously moving, and their reliability is essential to the navigation infrastructure. Assessm...
The Accident Sequence Precursor (ASP) program methods and results are reviewed. Generally, it is concluded that the ASP program is useful and that continued methods improvement efforts currently under way should be continued. More care is needed in the interpretation of results. Alternative methods and treatments for the analysis of operational eve...
Miter gates at navigation locks experience loading cycles from emptying and filling of a lock's chamber as they are opened to allow traffic through the locks. Reliability analysis of miter gates at navigation locks requires definition of (a) non-performance modes, (b) loads, (c) structural strength, and (d) methods of reliability analysis. Due to t...
