Reply to 'Comments on 'Evolutionary neural network modeling for software cumulative failure time prediction' by Liang Tian and Afzel Noore,' by Bev Littlewood [Reliability Engineering and System Safety 87 (2005) 45-51]

摘要

We thank Prof. Littlewood for his interest in our paper. While we acknowledge there are some merits to the comments, none of his critiques invalidates the rationale in our previous paper. However, the comments have provided us the opportunity to clarify the main contributions of our paper, analyze the data from multiple perspectives, and more importantly have provided insights to future research ideas.