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Description

This Special Collection (SC) aims to provide a dedicated space for the in-depth exploration and dissemination of advancements in reliability-based, risk-based, and uncertainty-informed decision-making. The primary goal of this SC is to showcase emerging developments that address reliability and risk management to enhance the resilience and sustainability of our infrastructure systems and built environment. Contributions are expected to present key ideas, concepts, and technologies for solving significant challenges posed by the high complexity and multidisciplinary nature of problems as well as the comprehensive quantification, efficient processing, and management of induced uncertainties. By establishing this SC, we aim to foster a collaborative environment that encourages researchers to share insights and innovations in the multifaceted fields of risk, uncertainty, and decision-making within infrastructure systems.

Topics

  • Recent advances in reliability and risk management of structural and infrastructure systems
  • Bayesian inference and inverse problems under uncertainty
  • Probabilistic and non-probabilistic approaches for uncertainty quantification
  • Structural health monitoring and real-time reliability;
  • Natural hazard modeling and extreme event analysis;
  • Geotechnical risk, uncertainty, resilience, and decision-making;
  • Machine learning and AI for risk and reliability analysis;
  • Data-driven and surrogate modeling for complex systems;
  • Resilience, robustness and control of infrastructure systems under uncertainty.

Special Issue Publication Dates

Paper submission deadline: October 31, 2026

Initial review completed: December 31, 2026

Publication date: Date: June 30, 2027

Guest Editors

  • Takeshi Kitahara , Professor, M.ASCE, Department of Civil Engineering, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan
  • Yasunori Miyamori , Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Michael Beer , Professor, M.ASCE, Institute for Risk & Reliability, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
  • Masaru Kitahara , Associate Professor, M.ASCE, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit manuscripts electronically through the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering Editorial Manager website.

Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to guidelines found in the ASCE Author Center .

When submitting, authors should indicate in the submission questions that the paper is being submitted in response to this call for papers Reliability and Risk Management of Infrastructure Systems.

Please note that this is an invitation to submit papers for peer review and does not imply acceptance for publication. Acceptance of submitted papers depends on the results of the normal refereed peer review process of the journal.

All accepted papers submitted through this solicitation will be published in regular issues of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering as they are accepted. They will also be added to the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering Special Collections (similar to a print version of a special issue) page and indexed for citations like other regular journal papers.