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	About Us Electronic Journal Reliability: Theory & Applications (ISSN 1932-2321) has been published by Gnedenko Forum since January 2006. The Journal covers various areas of risk analysis (reliability, safety, security, survivability, antiterrorism defensive ability, quality control, reliability testing, queuing models, and other related topics). Reliability: Theory & Applications (ISSN 1932-2321) is a peer-reviewed journal for researchers and practitioners who are involved in risk analysis and reliability engineering. The Journal will publish high-quality papers covering foundational, theoretical, methodological, and practical issues relevant for the safe and reliable design and operation of engineering systems from any industrial sector. Theoretical and applied papers, reviews, memoirs, and bibliographical material on the topics are subjects of publication. Pure theoretical papers should contain new problems and/or new solutions and outline practical applications, but should not be overloaded with clumsy formal material. Priority is given to clear practical applications and case studies. Papers presented for publication are directed to members of the Editorial Board for review. The only exception is made for papers presented by Associate Editors who can personally recommend papers for publication. Dear Colleagues, We would like to inform you of an important stage in the development of our journal - the transition to the modern editorial and publishing platform OJS (Open Journal Systems). To ensure a smooth migration and maintain access to all materials until the complete transfer of the archive, the old and new websites will operate in parallel. Starting in 2026, all new issues of the journal will be published exclusively on the new OJS-based website. Once the full archive has been migrated, access to the previous website will be discontinued. We will notify you separately of the completion date for this process. Please note: until the new platform is fully configured and an official announcement is made, we ask all authors to continue following the current submission procedure by sending materials to the editorial email address: a.bochkov@gmail.com. The Editorial Board will provide additional information regarding the launch of the new website and the transition to the electronic submission and peer-review system via OJS. Thank you for your understanding. Sincerely, Editorial Board Publication in Electronic Journal Reliability: Theory & Applications (ISSN 1932-2321) is equal to publication in other international scientific journals. General requirements for presented papers: Papers have to be presented in English in LaTex format (please use the templates provided below). The total volume of the paper (with illustrations) can be up to 15 pages. А presented paper has to be spell-checked. For those whose language is not English, we kindly recommend to use professional linguistic proofs before sending a paper to the journal. Please send a pdf version of the article along with the original (Word or LaTeX). It is not necessary to number the pages in the pdf file. Template (LaTex) of Electronic Journal Reliability: Theory & Applications (click to download) The Journal Reliability: Theory & Applications adheres to the rules of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Publication Ethics Statement. There are no fees to submit or publish papers in Reliability: Theory & Applications Only manuscripts of adequate quality will be reviewed. Requirements for the Introduction Section and Desk Reject Policy 1. Mandatory Structure of the Introduction Section The Introduction section of the submitted manuscript must explicitly contain the following logically interconnected elements. The absence or unclear formulation of any of these is considered a significant flaw and constitutes grounds for rejection or a request for major revision prior to the peer review stage. Research Motivation. A clear justification of the relevance and the practical or theoretical significance of the problem being addressed. The author must answer the question: "Why is this research important and necessary?" Critical Literature Review and Statement of Novelty. A concise analysis of key works directly related to the article's topic, highlighting unresolved questions or limitations of existing approaches. Against this background, the scientific novelty of the proposed method, model, approach, or experiment must be unambiguously defined. Clear Statement of Contribution. A specific and verifiable description of the main results of the work. The contribution must be stated explicitly (e.g., "This paper proposes a new mathematical model..."; "We demonstrate the correct application of model X for analyzing a new class of systems Y..."; "It is experimentally established that..."). Statements regarding the contribution must directly correspond to the claimed novelty. 2. Desk Reject Policy The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject a manuscript at the initial stage, without sending it for peer review or assigning an Associate Editor, in the following cases: Out of Scope: The article's topic is clearly misaligned with the journal's aims, scope, and subject area, or is irrelevant/outdated. Insufficient Novelty or Quality: The work fails to meet basic standards of scientific novelty, significance, or presentation quality (including structure, clarity, and adherence to the requirements for the Introduction section outlined above). Publication Ethics Violations: Detected plagiarism (including self-plagiarism, text recycling without proper citation), duplicate publication, or simultaneous submission to multiple venues. Formal Violations: The manuscript is incomplete, significantly exceeds the stipulated length limit, or does not comply with the basic formatting requirements set in the "Author Guidelines". As part of the submission process, you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work to be first published in the Journal, that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright work not owned by you. Important aspects include: Systems reliability assessment (including Hazard analysis, Failure analysis, Reliability modeling and analysis, Maintainability analysis, Maintenance modeling, planning, scheduling and optimization, Repairable systems analysis, Availability modeling and analysis, Physics of failure, Reliability test planning/Reliability assurance programs); Accelerated tests modeling and statistical analysis (including degradation and life tests modeling); Operations research (including Queuing modeling and analysis, Stochastic networks, Financial and Insurance mathematics, Service system reliability, Integrated logistics modeling and support, Optimization methods); Risk analysis methods (including Application of risk and reliability analyses in Engineering, Resilience analysis and engineering, Security and Vulnerability, Critical infrastructure vulnerability assessment and safety, Meta-models for risk and reliability analysis); Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis (including Expert judgments; Software production (including in reliability, insurance and finance, Safety critical software; Big data collection and analysis (including Reliability data, Accident analysis/Incident reporting); Advanced simulation techniques for risk and reliability analysis. and others. Note: If a decision is made to request a Major Revision after the peer-review stage, only one round of major revision is permitted. A manuscript resubmitted after revision that still fails to address the key concerns of the reviewers and editors will be rejected. You can submit your paper by e-mail: a.bochkov@gmail.com to Managing Editor RTA Alexander Bochkov.