As our modern information-age society grows in complexity both in terms of embedded systems and applications, the problems and challenges in reliability become ever more complex. Bringing together many of the leading experts in the field, this volume presents a broad picture of current research on system modeling and optimization in reliability and its applications.The book comprises twenty-three chapters organized into four parts: Reliability Modeling, Software Quality Engineering, Software Reliability, and Maintenance and Inspection Policies. These sections cover a wide range of important topics, including system reliability modeling, optimization, software reliability and quality, maintenance theory and inspection, reliability failure analysis, sampling plans and schemes, software development processes and improvement, stochastic process modeling, statistical distributions and analysis, fault-tolerant performance, software measurements and cost effectiveness, queueing theory and applications, system availability, reliability of repairable systems, testing sampling inspection, software capability maturity model, accelerated life modeling, statistical control, and HALT testing.Contents:Reliability Modeling:Optimal Checkpointing Interval for Task Duplication with Spare Processing (S Nakagawa et al.)Optimal Interval of CRL Issue in PKI Architecture (M Arafuka et al.)Applying Accelerated Life Models to HALT Testing (F Guérin et al.)Software Quality Engineering:Measurement of Object-Oriented Software Understandability Using Spatial Complexity (J K Chhabra et al.)An Approach to Quantifying Process Cost and Quality (G Twaites & C Hoffman)Software Process Improvement Activities Based on CMM (T Fujiwara & S Yamada)Software Reliability Modeling:A Two-Level Continuous Sampling Plan for Software Systems (S Hwang & H Pham)An Extended Delayed S-Shaped Software Reliability Growth Model Based on Infinite Server Queueing Theory (S Inoue & S Yamada)Disappointment Probability Based on the Number of Debuggings for Operational Software Availability Measurement (Y Saitoh et al.)Maintenance and Inspection Policies:Optimal Random and Periodic Inspection Policies (T Sugiura et al.)Screening Scheme for High Performance Products (W-T Cheong & L-C Tang)Age-Dependent Failure Interaction (Q Zhao et al.)and other papersReadership: Serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners in reliability and maintenance engineering, software and information engineering, and safety and systems engineering; may also be used as an advanced textbook for graduate and post-graduate students engaged in reliability research.
