Advanced Topics
in
Reliability
and
Risk Analysis

OBJECTIVE

To provide a forum for in-depth discussion of critical, research-level problems in risk and reliability analysis, and the development of solution strategies to attack these problems.

NEED

Current avenues for discussion of critical issues, while useful, have some drawbacks with respect to free, extensive, and timely exchanges.

• Discussions carried through a technical journal are slow and limited because of publication time- scales.
• Technical conferences cannot provide sufficient time for detailed discussion to ensure adequate understanding of different perspectives and approaches.
• Problem-solving workshops provide an improved format; however, participants may constrain their discussion in order to address their perceptions of the immediate needs and perspectives of the sponsoring agency.

PARTICIPANTS and FORMAT

• All participants are invited by the organizing committee.
• Participants include 20-30 experts and a limited number of observers.
• Workshops include formal presentation sessions (prepared papers by experts) and working sessions. Working sessions are directed towards the development of solution strategies and research needs.
• Workshops are expected to last 3-4 days.

ORGANIZATION

• The workshop series is directed by an international organizing committee.
• Each individual workshop is organized by a local organizing committee working with the series organizing committee.

PUBLICATIONS

• Workshop proceedings including summaries of discussion and the results of working sessions, are published in bound volumes.
• The proceedings are compiled and issued after completion of the workshops to incorporate the working session summaries and results.

SCHEDULE

It is expected that one to two workshops will be held each year. Some workshops might be coordinated with topical meetings such the SPA and PAM series.

TOPICS

Each workshop will address issues that are a) important, b) timely, c) difficult to resolve without further research, and d) in need of expert input to formulate structured research agendas to assist timely and efficient resolution. furthermore, to enhanc e productivity, each workshop will have a relatively narrow focus.

Workshops held or scheduled are:

• Workshop I. Model Uncertainty: Characterization and Quantification, Annapolis, Maryland, Oct. 20-22, 1993.

• Workshop II. Human Reliability Models: Theoretical and Practical Challenges, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 22-24, 1994.

• Workshop III. Reliability growth Modeling: Objectives, Expectations, and Approaches. Lexington Park, Maryland. October 26-28, 1994.

• Workshop IV. Environmental Risk Assessment: Current Status and Role in Environmental Policy Making, Seoul, Korea, Dec. 5-7, 1994.

• Workshop V. Accident Sequence Precursors and Probabilistic Risk Analysis. Madison, Wisconsin. May 24-26, 1995.

• Methodological Issues in Risk-Based Regulation
• Common Cause Failure Data and Modeling
• Reliability of Expert Systems
• Reliability Growth Modeling
• Accident Sequence Precursors and PRA

SERIES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• A. Mosleh
  Center for Reliability Engineering
  University of Maryland
  U.S.A.
• N.Siu
  Center for Reliability and Risk Assessment
  Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
  U.S.A.
• S. Hirschberg
  Systems Safety Analysis Section
  Paul Scherrer Institute
  Switzerland
• C. Park
  Integrated Nuclear Safety Assessment
  Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
  Korea

SPONSORS

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA
• Center for Reliability Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
• Center for Reliability and Risk Assessment, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, USA
• Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectrorate
• Korea Atomic Energy Institute, Korea

IN COOPERATION WITH

• Commission of The European Communities Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy
• Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Gesellschaft fur Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit, Germany
• RELCON AB, Sweden

Workshop I	Workshop II	Workshop III	Workshop IV	Workshop V

Last Edition: July 6th, 1996