8/28/20: Continuing

1. MM (a regular reader of this blog) writes: Hope the rest of your summer has gone well. I just came across this Call for Papers and thought maybe it would be a good fit for some of your group's work: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-informetrics/call-for-papers/new-measurements-of-scientific-and-technological-advances. 

2. Status updates. MH finishing up his paper. PT is working on his main algorithm. DB showed his latest results on analyzing lifetime data for deep space craft. 

3. Literature discussion: "3)" on modeling degraded life components of this. It seems degraded life components ares handled the same way as consumable life components. Next time we will do "4)."

4. Other items? None.