Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) is a plant pathogenic virus which has been reported to continuously occur in onion bulbs, allium field crops, seed crops, lisianthus, and irises. In South Korea, IYSV is a "controlled" virus that has not been reported, and inspection is performed when crops of the genus Iris are imported into South Korea. In this study, reverse-transcription polymerase chain reacti...

in this paper, we focus on a continuously deteriorating critical equipment which its failure cannot be measured by cost criterion. for these types of systems like military systems, nuclear systems, etc it is extremely important to avoid failure during the actual operation of the system. in this paper we propose an approach which constrains failure probability to a pre-specified value. this valu...

Software inspection is a widely used method for finding defects in all types of software development documents. Many process variations exist, each designed for use under certain circumstances or to address some perceived fault in existing methods. A desirable attribute of inspection is rigour, allowing the use of historical data to predict future performance and suggest process improvements. R...

This paper deals with a one-unit system that the system's failure can be detected only by inspection. This inspection takes a non-negligible random time. Consequently the system is down during the inspection whether it is operable or not. When the system's failure is detected by i-th inspection (i = 1,2, ... , n+l), the system is repaired. When the system is operable at the time of the (n+ 1)-s...

Objective: In this paper we present an empirical study that was aimed at comparing three software inspection methods, in terms of needed time, precision, and recall values. The main objective of this study is to provide software engineers with some insight into choosing the inspection method to adopt. Method: We conducted a controlled experiment and a replication. These experiments involved 48 ...

A major goal of analytical quality assurance (QA) activities, e.g., inspection and testing, is detecting defects in software artifacts to increase product quality and decrease rework effort and cost. Inspection aims at identifying defects early and traditional testing focuses on test case generation and execution late in the development process. Combining inspection and test-case generation to ...

Relevant material and environmental parameters are required in modelling chloride ingress into concrete. They could be determined from experimental data (concrete cores taken during inspection) but in practice data availability is limited by time-consuming and expensive tests. Consequently, the main objective of this paper is to develop an approach based on Bayesian networks (BN) to improve the...

Software inspection is an effective way to assess product quality and to reduce the number of defects. In a software inspection the inspection meeting is a key activity to agree on collated defects, to eliminate false positives, and to disseminate knowledge among the team members. However, inspection meetings often require high effort and may lose defects found in earlier inspection steps due t...

A growing need exists for a quantitative measure of inspection effectiveness as an input to quantitative riskinformed in-service inspection (RI-ISI). A Probability of Detection (POD) curve could provide a suitable metric, but there can be significant problems associated with generating realistic POD curves by practical trials. The ENIQ inspection qualification methodology is used to provide hig...