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Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design

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  • Presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality
  • Each chapter is written by active researchers and professionals with international reputations
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (RELIABILITY)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. System Reliability Computing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Modeling and Reliability Evaluation of Multi-state k-out-of-n Systems

      • Zhigang Tian, Wei Li, Ming J. Zuo
      Pages 31-56
    3. Some Alternative Approaches to System Reliability Modeling

      • Jerzy K. Filus, Lidia Z. Filus
      Pages 101-135
  3. Reliability Engineering in Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
    2. Weibull Data Analysis with Few or no Failures

      • Ming-Wei Lu, Cheng Julius Wang
      Pages 201-210
    3. Markovian Performance Evaluation for Software System Availability with Processing Time Limit

      • Masamitsu Fukuda, Koichi Tokuno, Shigeru Yamada
      Pages 225-238
    4. Failure Probability Estimation of Long Pipeline

      • Liyang Xie, Zheng Wang, Guangbo Hao, Mingchuan Zhang
      Pages 239-251
  4. Software Reliability and Testing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
    2. Software Fault Imputation in Noisy and Incomplete Measurement Data

      • Andres Folleco, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse
      Pages 255-274
    3. Heuristic Component Placement for Maximizing Software Reliability

      • Michael W. Lipton, Swapna S. Gokhale
      Pages 309-330
    4. Software Reliability Growth Models Based on Component Characteristics

      • Takaji Fujiwara, Shinji Inoue, Shigeru Yamada
      Pages 331-342

About this book

"Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design" presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modelling. Each chapter is written by active researchers and professionals with international reputations, providing material which bridges the gap between theory and practice to trigger new practices and research challenges.

Postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, quality engineering, operations research, industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, management, and statistics will find this book a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and quality in design and practices.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Industrial and System Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA

    Hoang Pham

About the editor

Dr Hoang Pham is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Before joining Rutgers, he was a senior engineering specialist at the Boeing Company, Seattle, and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls. His research interests include software reliability, system reliability modeling, maintenance, fault-tolerant computing, and biological systemability-risk assessment.

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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