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Communications in national and international conferences with scientific committee and acts

1. ESREL 2018 (Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference), Trondheim, Norway, June 2018: S. Mercier, I.T.Castro, Two imperfect repair models for a gamma deteriorating system: A comparison.
2. MMR 2017 (International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Grenoble, France, July 2017: S. Mercier, Probabilistic construction and properties of gamma processes, and extensions, invited.
3. MMR 2017 (International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Grenoble, France, July 2017: Z. Al Masry, S. Mercier, G. Verdier, A condition-based dynamic maintenance policy for an extended gamma process.
4. ESREL 2016 (Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference), Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 2016: Z. Al Masry, S. Mercier, G. Verdier, Generalized method of moments for an extended gamma process.
5. MMR 2015 (International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Tokyo, Japan, June 2015: S. Mercier, A. Barros, A. Grall, A multivariate degradation model with dependence due to shocks, invited.
6. MMR 2015 (International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Tokyo, Japan, June 2015: H. H. Pham, S. Mercier, A bivariate failure time model with dependence due to shocks and mixed effect.
7. MMR 2015 (International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Tokyo, Japan, June 2015: Z. Al Masry, S. Mercier, G. Verdier, Simulation techniques and approximate distribution of an extended gamma process.
8. ESREL 2015 (Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference), Zürich, Switzerland, Sept. 2015: J. Demgne, S. Mercier, W. Lair, J. Lonchampt, An application of Quasi Monte Carlo methods for the numerical assessment of maintenance strategies.
9. Congrès Lambda-Mu 19 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Dijon, France, Oct. 2014: J. Demgne, S. Mercier, W. Lair, J. Lonchampt, M. Baudin, Méthodes de Quasi Monte-Carlo pour l'évaluation de stratégies d'investissements.
10. MIMAR (8th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability), Oxford, UK, July 2014: S. Mercier, Inma T. Castro, Computation of some transient performance measures for deteriorating systems under continuous monitoring and imperfect repairs.
11. ALT 2014 (5th International Conference on Accelerated Life Testing and Degradation Models), Pau, France, June 2014: S. Mercier, A. Barros, A. Grall, Multivariate Degradation Model with dependence due to Shocks.
12. ALT 2014 (5th International Conference on Accelerated Life Testing and Degradation Models), Pau, France, June 2014: J. Demgne, S. Mercier, W. Lair, J. Lonchampt, M. Baudin, Quasi Monte Carlo methods for the numerical assessment of investments plans.
13. ESREL 2013 (Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference), Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, Oct. 2013: Inmaculada T. Castro, Sophie Mercier, Two models of imperfect delayed repair for a continuously monitored system subject to an accumulative deterioration.
14. ESREL 2013 (Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference), Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, Oct. 2013: S. Mercier, L. Bordes, E. Remy, E. Dautrême, A stochastic model for competing degradations.
15. ESREL 2013 (Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference), Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, Oct. 2013: Hai Ha Pham, Sophie Mercier, An imperfect replacement policy for a periodically tested system with two dependent wear indicators.
16. ASMDA 2013 (15th Conference of the Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis International Society), Mataró, Spain, June 2013: Sophie Mercier, Inmaculada T. Castro, A virtual age model for imperfect repair of a continuously monitored system with accumulating deterioration.
17. Congrès Lambda-Mu 18 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Tours, France, Oct. 2012: Hai Ha Pham, Sophie Mercier, Une politique de maintenance préventive associée à une dégradation accumulative bivariée observée continument.
18. PSAM 11 - ESREL 2012, Helsinki, Finland, June 2012: Hai Ha Pham, Sophie Mercier, A preventive maintenance policy for a bivariate wear indicator with continuous monitoring.
19. PSAM 11 - ESREL 2012, Helsinki, Finland, June 2012: Sophie Mercier, Laurent Bordes, Extended geometric processes for application to reliability.
20. JdS'2012 (44e Journées de Statistique de la SFdS): Bruxelles, Belgique, May 2012, Laurent Bordes, Sophie Mercier, Processus géométrique étendu et applications en fiabilité .
21. ESREL 2011: Troyes, France, Sept. 2011, William Lair, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, Rachid Ziani, Maintenance effect modelling and optimization of a two-components system.
22. ESREL 2011: Troyes, France, Sept. 2011, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, A block replacement policy for a bivariate wear subordinator.
23. World Congress on Railway Research (WCRR), Lille, France, May 2011: William Lair, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, Rachid Ziani, Maintenance optimization of a train air conditioning system.
24. Congrès Lambda-Mu 17 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, La Rochelle, France, Oct. 2010: Sophie Mercier, Carolina Meier-Hirmer, Michel Roussignol, Modélisation de la géométrie d'une voie ferrée par un processus Gamma bivarié et application à la maintenance.
25. Congrès Lambda-Mu 17 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, La Rochelle, France, Oct. 2010: William Lair, Sophie Mercier, Rachid Ziani, Michel Roussignol, Processus markoviens déterministes par morceaux et quantification déterministe avec un schéma de volumes finis : un cas d'étude.
26. Eleventh International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Jaca, Spain, Sept. 2010: Sophie Mercier, On the use of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes in classical reliability.
27. RAMS 2009, San Jose, Californie USA, Jan. 2010: William Lair, Rachid Ziani, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, Modeling and quantification of aging systems for maintenance optimization.
28. Symposium in remembrance of Prof. van Noortwijk, Delft, Pays-Bas, Nov. 2009: Sophie Mercier, Carolina Meier-Hirmer, Michel Roussignol, Modelling track geometry by a bivariate Gamma wear process, with application to maintenance, invited.
29. Qualita 2009, Besançon, France, Mars 2009: William Lair, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, Rachid Ziani, Modélisation et quantification de systèmes vieillissants pour l'optimisation de la maintenance.
30. ESREL 2008 - 17th SRA-Europe Conference, Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2008: Robert Eymard, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, Importance Factors in Dynamic Reliability.
31. ESREL 2008 - 17th SRA-Europe Conference, Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2008: Sophie Mercier, Optimal replacement policy for components with general failure rates submitted to obsolescence.
32. FVCA5 (The International Symposium on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications V), Aussois, France, June 2008: Robert Eymard, Sophie Mercier, Alain Prignet, Michel Roussignol, A finite volume scheme for sensitivity analysis in dynamic reliability.
33. MMR 2007 (International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Glasgow, July 2007: S. Mercier, M. Roussignol, Sensitivity Estimates in Dynamic Reliability.
34. Congrès Lambda-Mu 15 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Lille, France, Oct. 2006: S. Mercier, Encadrement de quantités fiabilistes pour un gros système markovien.
35. Congrès Lambda-Mu 15 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Lille, France, Oct. 2006: C. Cocozza, M. Desgrouas, S. Mercier, Algorithme de calcul de disponibilité asymptotique en fiabilité dynamique.
36. FVCA4 (The International Symposium on Finite Volumes for Complex Applications IV), Marrakech, July 2005: C. Cocozza-Thivent, R. Eymard, S. Mercier, A finite Volume scheme for dynamic reliability studies.
37. Qualita 2005: Bordeaux, France, 16-18 mars 2005, M. Desgrouas, S. Mercier, Comportement asymptotique d'un exemple de fiabilité dynamique.
38. Congrès Lambda-Mu 14 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Bourges, France, oct. 2004: S. Mercier, Encadrement de variables aléatoires et application à la fiabilité.
39. Congrès Lambda-Mu 14 de Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement, Bourges, France, oct. 2004: C. Cocozza-Thivent, R. Eymard, S. Mercier, Méthodes et algorithmes pour la quantification de petits systèmes redondants.
40. PSAM / ESREL' 04 (International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assesment and Management), Berlin, Germany, 14-18 june 2004: C. Cocozza-Thivent, R. Eymard, S. Mercier, A numerical scheme to solve integro-differential equations in the dynamic reliability field.
41. PSAM / ESREL' 04 (International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assesment and Management), Berlin, Germany, 14-18 june 2004: O. Michel, P.E. Labeau, S. Mercier, Monte-Carlo optimization of the replacement strategy  of components  subject  to technological  obsolescence.
42. Qualita 2003, Nancy, March 2003: S. Mercier et P.E. Labeau, Optimal scheduling for the replacement of components subject to technological obsolescence.
43. MMR 2002 (Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Trondheim, Norway, June 2002: S. Mercier et M. Roussignol,Asymptotic failure rate of a Markov deteriorating system with preventive maintenance.
44. Congrès Lambda-Mu 13 - ESREL 2002, Lyon, France, June 2002: S. Bloch-Mercier, Optimal restarting distribution after repair for a Markov deteriorating system.
45. 10th International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis (ASMDA 2001), Compiègne, France, June 2001: S. Bloch-Mercier, Optimization of the corrective maintenance of a repairable system.
46. MMR 2000 (Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods on Reliability), Bordeaux, France, July 2000: S. Bloch-Mercier, Stationary availability of a Markov system with preventive random maintenance.
47. XXXIIèmes Journées de Statistique, Fès, Morroco, May 2000: S. Bloch-Mercier, Coût moyen asymptotique d'un système markovien soumis à une politique de maintenance préventive.
48. XXXIèmes Journées de Statistique, Grenoble, France, May 1999: S. Bloch-Mercier, Optimisation de la disponibilité asymptotique d'un système semi-markovien soumis à une maintenance aléatoire.

Communications in national and international conferences with scientific committee without acts

1. 16th Workshop on Quality Improvement Methods, Dortmund, Germany, June 2018: Sophie Mercier, Probabilistic construction and properties of gamma processes, and extensions, invited.
2. Congreso Bienal de la Real Sociedad Matemática Española, Zaragoza, Spain, January 2017: Sophie Mercier, Hai Ha Pham, A bivariate failure time model with random shocks and mixed effects, invited.
3. SADA'16 - Conférence Internationale de Statistique Appliquée pour le Développement en Afrique, Cotonou, Bénin, 28 November-3 December 2016: Sophie Mercier, Probabilistic construction and properties of gamma processes, invited session.
4. Fourteenth International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Mathematics and its Applications, Jaca, Spain, 12-15 September 2016: S. Mercier, I. T. Castro, On the stochastic comparison of two models of imperfect repairs for a gamma deteriorating system.
5. CMStatistics 2015 (8th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics), London, UK, December 2015: S. Mercier, Z. Al Masry, G. Verdier, Technical tools for the use of extended gamma processes in reliability, invited.
6. ERCIM 2014 (7th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics), Pisa, Italy, December 2014: E. Remy, S. Mercier, L. Bordes, E. Dautrême, A stochastic process for partial degradation data.
7. Thirteenth International Conference Zaragoza-Pau on Mathematics and its Applications, Jaca, Spain, 15-17 September 2014: Sophie Mercier, Hai Ha Pham, A random shock model with competing and dependent failure modes of different kinds.
8. IWAP 2014 (Seventh International Workshop on Applied Probability), Antalya, Turkey, June 2014: Sophie Mercier, Hai Ha Pham, A bivariate random shock model with mixed effect and dependence, invited.
9. SADA'13 - Conférence Internationale de Statistique Appliquée pour le Développement en Afrique, Cotonou, Bénin, 4-8 March 2013: Sophie Mercier, A model for correlated damage indicators in reliability, with application to maintenance, invited.
10. CFE-ERCIM 2012 (6th CSDA International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics and 5th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics): Oviedo, Spain, December 2012, Laurent Bordes, Sophie Mercier, Extended geometric processes for application to reliability.
11. GDRR 2011 - Second Symposium on Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risks, Belgirate, Italy, May 2011: Sophie Mercier, Bivariate subordinators as wear processes in reliability, with application to preventive maintenance, invited.
12. Journées MAS de Probabilités (groupe Modélisation Aléatoire et Statistique de la SMAI), Rennes, France, Sept. 2000: S. Bloch-Mercier, C. Cocozza-Thivent, Une politique de maintenance préventive conditionnelle : deux approches.
13. Journées MAS de Probabilités (groupe Modélisation Aléatoire et Statistique de la SMAI), Nice, France, Sept. 1998: S. Bloch-Mercier, Optimisation de la disponibilité asymptotique d'un système semi-markovien à deux états soumis à une maintenance aléatoire.

Invited long lectures

1. 7th COPROMAPH International School, Cotonou, Bénin, Nov. 2011, Stochastic modeling for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety, 32 hrs.