Test-analyze-and-fix (TAAF) is the mostcommonly recognized method of improvingsystem reliability. The work presented hereaddresses the question of when to stop testingduring TAAF programs involving one-shotsystems when the number of systems to beproduced is predetermined and theprobabilities of...

In the United States, patients with end-stage liver disease must join a waiting list to be eligible for cadaveric liver transplantation. However, the details of the composition of this waiting list are only partially available to the patients. Patients currently have the prerogative to reject...