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Gnedenko e-Forum Chapter

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Gnedenko e-Forum is named after outstanding probabilist and statistician Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko.

Gnedenko e-Forum is a voluntary informal association (a “club”) of specialists dealing with such practical problems like reliability, safety, security, risk analysis, quality, queuing and other applications of probabilistic and statistical methods.

Main form of the Forum activity is exchange of professional information through the Forum’s website.

The Forum is non-profit organization.

Financial support of the Forum (for instance, payment for the Forum’s website, editing journal papers, running the site) is performed on the basis of voluntary donations from the Forum’s members.

Article I - Objectives and Tasks

The objectives of the Forum shall be the development of reliability and queuing theories and their applications by information exchange between specialists in these directions. Areas of interest of the Forum’s activity include (but not limited by) the following models and their application:

System Reliability Analysis

Queuing Models Analysis

Fighting Terrorism models

Operational Effectiveness

Safety

Survivability (Vulnerability)

Risk Analysis

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Optimum Reliability Allocation

Maintainability

Optimal Spare Supply

Optimal Inventory Control

Monte Carlo Simulation

Accelerated Testing

Reliability Data Analysis

Statistical Control

Quality Assurance

and other related topics

The main tasks of the Gnedenko Forum are:

Establishing professional contacts among reliability and queuing specialists all over the world.

Exchange of information about forthcoming events in the Forum’s field of activity.

Exchange of information on new publications in the Forum’s field of activity.

Participation in international conferences and meetings, presenting the affiliating to the Forum.

Publication scientific and personal information in Forum’s e-journal.

Help to arrange participation of Forum’s members in getting consulting and grants.

Article II - Membership

The membership of the Forum might be personal (mainly) as well as collective (companies dealing with applied probability and statistics projects, corresponding departments of universities, etc.)

There are no special requirements for membership except professional affiliation to the fields of the Forum activity.

A member of the Forum has no obligations at all, though has some rights: to publish materials in the Forum’s e-journal, elect the Forum’s officers, recommend new members for the Forum.

A new member is accepted into the Forum by e-mail presentation of documents of professional credibility (resume and list of publications) and photo. E-mails should be sent to the Forum’s Scientific Secretary Alexander Bochkov: a.bochkov@gmail.com.

Membership in the Forum does not involve any financial obligations (no fees).

There are some organizational duties of elected officers and members of the Editorial board of the Forum’s e-journal concerning the current running of the Forum and the journal.

Article III - Regional, Professional and Memorial Grouping

For convenience of the Forum activity member may be grouped in Chapters by regional (countries, cities) or affiliation (company, university) principles.

In addition it is possible to arrange such Chapters on the basis of belonging members to some particular school.

There is a possibility to arrange Chapters by narrow professional interests (see list of directions).

Each such group desirably may/should have an elected representative though it is not obligatory.

A member of the Forum may participate in several Chapters.

The objective of these Chapters is to provide members of the Forum with corresponding information, arrange and/or participate professional meetings and compile special issues of the Forum’s e-journal.

Article IV - Board and Voting Procedure

The Founder and the Scientific Secretary of the Forum are permanent hosts of the Forum’s website and the members of Forum’s Journal Editorial Board. They have no right to take other governing body of the Forum.

The Forum Board consists of the following officers:

The President of the Forum, a yearly elected officer with deciding voice in decision-making

The Vice-President/President-elect, a yearly elected officer with advising voice.

Immediate (or the most recent living) Past-President with advising voice.

President and Vice-President are elected by direct voting of all members of the Forum. Votes should be sent to the Scientific Secretary not later than a month after announcing nominations. A simple majority rule is applied.

Any President decision could be blocked by two other officers (Vice-President and Immediate Past-president) not later than a week after the President’s decision. After such blocking next week the direct voting of all members becomes decisive.

The same person will not be eligible for re-election to the office for at least three years.

Candidates for President and Vice-President might be suggested by at least three members of the Forum. (Members might have any form of preliminary mutual coordination.) All suggested candidates will be included in the voting list.

If the President is unable to continue to serve, then his place will be taken by Vice-President.

Article V - Quarterly International Journal “Reliability: Theory & Applications”.

Journal of the Forum “Reliability: Theory & Applications” (RT&A) is published only in an electronic form and locates at the Gnedenko Forum website.

The Founder (igorushakov@gmail.com ) is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal RT&A. The Forum’s Scientific Secretary (a.bochkov@gmail.com) is the Executive Secretary of the Journal RT&A.

Editor-in-Chief and Executive Secretary might be removed from the RT&A Editorial Board by direct voting of the Forum’s members by a suggestion of any the Forum’s officers.

A member of the Editorial Board can be chosen on the basis of his/her professional status. Any new member of the Editorial Board has to be a member of the Gnedenko Forum at least a year.

Any member of the Forum may present a scientific paper, case study description, advertising about new books and software product, announcement about forthcoming event, memoir about leading scientists of the Forum community, etc. Case studies and applied papers are most welcome.

All materials for a forthcoming issue of the journal are subject of “fast referring” by the members of Editorial Board. Materials presented by the Forum’s officers are published without additional refereeing with the mark “Presented by …”.

Publication in the International e-Journal RT&A is equivalent to standard publication.

The Journal RT&A is open, access to the Journal is free.

All materials published in the Journal RT&A are protected by copyright belonging to the Journal.

Reference to the Journal in a case of using its materials is obligatory.

Forum members presented their materials for publications in the Journal automatically have all rights for free usage of their materials anywhere else.

Please send you additions, corrections, remarks, etc. to a_bochkov@yahoo.com .