Editor's notes on special issue on “reliability and maintenance modeling with big data”

aDepartment of Statistics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; bDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas; cCenter for Computational and Statistical Learning, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; dDepartment of Industrial Engineering & Decision Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong