Dear Colleagues,

The growing human dependence on technological systems, as well as the ground-breaking changes in production processes, has recently placed maintenance and reliability factors at a hitherto unforeseen level of importance. New techniques have been emerging from different areas and are being associated with classical approaches in maintenance and reliability to help to handle massive amounts of data, the need to do this being one of the main features of the current manufacture revolution. Thus, a broader effort in research is imperative so that the role of reliability and maintenance in these new challenges can be adequately defined and able to meet the constant demands for this. For the reasons mentioned above, this Special Issue of Modelling seeks to attract relevant contributions on reliability and maintenance modeling. Therefore, the Guest Editors invite submissions with an original perspective and advanced thinking on this topic and related issues. We welcome original research papers with theoretical development and solid empirical grounding on any one or more of (but not limited to) the following topics:

• degradation modeling and reliability assessment;
• reliability analysis;
• prognostics and health management;
• reliability and maintenance engineering;
• digital twin for reliability and maintenance;
• reinforcement learning for maintenance decision-making;
• machine learning for reliability;
• reliability and maintenance modeling for cyber–physical systems;
• maintenance for industry 4.0;
• life cycle/performance analysis;
• spare parts supply chain management;
• warranty management and data analysis.

Assoc. Prof. Phuc Do
Assoc. Prof. Cristiano Cavalcante
Guest Editors

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• degradation modeling
• reliability
• maintenance
• prognostics
• digital twin
• machine learning
• cyber–physical systems