About The 3rd SRSE 2021-Harbin Virtual Conf., Nov. 26-28

The 3rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety Engineering (SRSE 2021) was held in Harbin, China on November 26-28, 2021. Due to the outbroke and continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Harbin recently, the organizing committee decided to hold it online. It's conjunction with the annual meeting of SESC Systems Reliability Engineering Technical Committee (SESC). The conference is sponsored by National University of Singapore, Singapore, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, SESC Systems Reliability Engineering Technical Committee, China, co-sponsored by Beihang University, China, City University of Hong Kong, China, and organized by Institute of Reliability in Electrical Apparatus and Electronics, China. There were more than 150 delegates from China, USA, Canada, UK, Korea, Japan, etc attended the online conference, and in-depth discussions among the attendees effectively advanced the academic exchange.

Publication 

Accepted papers were published in SRSE conference proceedings.
ISBN: 978-1-6654-0160-9
IEEE Xplore Online: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9694273/proceeding
Index: EI Compendex and SCOPUS

About Conference Online

The program chair Prof. Xuerong Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology) host the morning keynote session. Conference General Chair Prof. Loon Ching Tang (National University of Singapore) gave the Opening Remarks and expressed his sincere gratitude to the co-organizers and warm welcome to all the experts and scholars attending the conference. And on behalf of Harbin Institute of Technology and the TPC group, the program chair Prof. Xuerong Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology) gave the welcome and program address, with brief introduction to the organization of SRSE 2021, the review process and collection status of articles this year.

In SRSE 2021, eight distinguished professors delivered the keynote speeches and thirteen experts delivered invite speeches.   They are

Prof. Mingjian Zuo, University of Alberta, Canada “Machine Learning and its Applications in Prognosis and Health Management”	Prof. Guofu Zhai, Harbin Institute of Technology, China “The Product Quality Consistency Improvement Technology Based on Digital Prototype Model”	Prof. Xiaoyan Zhu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China “Joint optimization of condition-based maintenance (CBM) and inventory control of spares for degrading components”
Prof. Min Xie, City Univerisity of Hong Kong, China “Some Reliability Problems in Cyber-Physical System Development and Applications”	Prof. Lirong Cui, Qingdao University, China “Reliability Modelling via Virtual Ages”	Prof. Michael Beer, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany “Engineered Systems: Complexity, Uncertainties and Quick Informed Decisions”
Prof. Rui Kang, Beihang University, China “Belief Reliability: A New Theory for Reliability Engineering”	Assoc. Prof. Zhisheng Ye, National University of Singapore, Singapore “Data-Driven Risk Evaluation of a Large-Scale Pipe Network”
Prof. Rong Pan of Arizona State University, USA “Experimental Design for Reliability Testing"	Prof. Haitao Liao of University of Arkansas, USA “Risk and Resilience-Based Optimal Post-Disruption Restoration for Critical Infrastructures under Uncertainty”	Prof. Yisha Xiang, Texas Tech University, USA “Data-Driven Markov Decision Processes with Parameter Uncertainty: Application to Remanufacturing Planning”
Prof. Tongdan Jin, Texas State University, USA “Industry Best Practices for Prognostics and Health Management: A Case Study of Semiconductor Test Equipment”	Prof. Xiao Liu, University of Arkansas, USA “Physics-Informed Statistical Learning for Nonlinear Structural Dynamics of Aircraft-UAV Collisions”	Prof. Zhigang Tian, University of Alberta, Canada “Equipment prognostics based on integrated and data-driven approaches”
Prof. Yanfu Li, Tsinghua University, China “Research Progresses on the Availability of High-speed Rail Systems”	Prof. Shaomin Wu, University of Kent, UK “Some Recent Extensions of the Geometric Process and Their Applications”	Prof. Suk Joo Bae, Hanyang University, Korea “Reliability Analysis and Maintenance Optimization for Complex Repairable Systems”
Prof. Bin Liu, University of Strathclyde, UK “Condition-based Maintenance for Dependent Degradation Processes?”	Prof. Piao Chen, Delft University of Technology, Netherland “Pairwise Model Discrimination with Applications in Lifetime Distributions and Degradation Processes”	Prof. Daqing Li, Beihang University, China “Health Management of Complex Networks”
Prof. Cen Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology, China “In-situ Condition Monitoring Methods for Power MOSFET Gate Oxide Degradation”

What's more, ten special sessions, two best paper competitions, poster session and five parallel sessions were held among the topics Risk Management and Data Calculation, Reliability Analysis and System Modeling, Model-based Software Safety Analysis and Evaluation (MBSSAE), System Reliability Modeling and Stochastic Orders, Prognostic and Health Management of Systems in the Environment of Big Data, Analysis and Optimization of Risk and Reliability, Reliability and Resilience Oriented Energy System Optimization, Degradation oriented Reliability Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization, Degradation-based Modeling and Decision Making, Data-driven Methodology on Maintenance, Warranty, and Failure Data Analysis, Modeling and Risk Management of Complex Engineering Systems, etc.

According to the review of the organizing committee and discussion of organizing committee meeting, two best papers and one student paper were selected after the competition. Each parallel session went through smoothly and a “Best Oral Presentation” award was issued at the end of sub-conference, with the support of session chairs.