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Overview

Maxim Finkelstein is affiliated with the University of the Free State in South Africa. The primary research focus encompasses fields such as Engineering and Mathematics, with a significant number of publications in these areas.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality; Statistics and Probability; Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty; Software; and Management Science and Operations Research.

Main topics covered in the research include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization, Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Risk and Safety Analysis, Probability and Risk Models, and Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis.

Publication output frequently appears in key academic venues such as:

  • Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability
  • Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
  • Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability
  • Test

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Maxim Finkelstein include:

  • Optimal mission abort policies for repairable multistate systems performing multi-attempt mission (2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
  • Optimal inspections and mission abort policies for multistate systems (2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
  • Optimal warranty policy with inspection for heterogeneous, stochastically degrading items (2020, European Journal of Operational Research)
  • State-based mission abort policies for multistate systems (2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)
  • Mission abort and rescue for multistate systems operating under the Poisson process of shocks (2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety)

Frequent co-authors include Ji Hwan, Gregory Levitin, Nil Kamal Hazra, Dheeraj Goyal, and Yanping Xiang.

Best Publications

  • Failure Rate Modelling for Reliability and Risk

    Maxim Finkelstein

  • Failure Rate Modelling for Reliability and Risk

    Maxim Finkelstein

  • Stochastic Modeling for Reliability

    Maxim Finkelstein;Ji Hwan Cha

  • An opportunistic condition-based maintenance policy for offshore wind turbine blades subjected to degradation and environmental shocks

    Mahmood Shafiee;Maxim Finkelstein;Christophe Bérenguer

  • On the reversed hazard rate

    Maxim S. Finkelstein

  • An optimal age-based group maintenance policy for multi-unit degrading systems

    Mahmood Shafiee;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • On new classes of extreme shock models and some generalizations

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Optimal Mission Abort Policy for Systems Operating in a Random Environment.

    Gregory Levitin;Gregory Levitin;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • A scale model of general repair

    M.S. Finkelstein

  • Optimal mission abort policy for systems in a random environment with variable shock rate

    Gregory Levitin;Gregory Levitin;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Wearing-out of components in a variable environment

    M.S. Finkelstein

  • On preventive maintenance of systems with lifetimes dependent on a random shock process

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein;Gregory Levitin

  • On a terminating shock process with independent wear increments

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • On optimal upgrade level for used products under given cost structures

    Mahmood Shafiee;Mahmood Shafiee;Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein;Stefanka Chukova

  • Bivariate preventive maintenance of systems with lifetimes dependent on a random shock process

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein;Gregory Levitin

  • 'Time-free' preventive maintenance of systems with structures described by signatures

    Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein;Ilya Gertsbakh

  • MODELING A FAILURE RATE FOR A MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS

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  • On statistical and information-based virtual age of degrading systems

    Maxim Finkelstein;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Point Processes for Reliability Analysis

    Ji Hwan Cha;Maxim Finkelstein

  • Asymptotic behavior of a general class of mixture failure rates

    Maxim Finkelstein;Veronica Esaulova

  • On stochastic comparisons of maximum order statistics from the location-scale family of distributions

    Nil Kamal Hazra;Mithu Rani Kuiti;Maxim Finkelstein;Asok K. Nanda

  • Some notes on two types of minimal repair

    M. S. Finkelstein

  • Minimal repair in heterogeneous populations

    M. S. Finkelstein

  • Stochastic Modeling for Reliability : Shocks, Burn-in and Heterogeneous populations

    Maxim Finkelstein;Ji Hwan Cha

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory Levitin
Gregory Levitin Southwest Jiaotong University
Mahmood Shafiee
Mahmood Shafiee University of Kent
Yuanshun Dai
Yuanshun Dai University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Hong-Zhong Huang
Hong-Zhong Huang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Christophe Bérenguer
Christophe Bérenguer Grenoble Alpes University
Serkan Eryilmaz
Serkan Eryilmaz Atilim University
Ming J. Zuo
Ming J. Zuo University of Alberta
Yan-Feng Li
Yan-Feng Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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