Book Description

This book contains extended versions of 34 carefully selected and reviewed papers presented at the Third International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability, held in Trondheim, Norway in 2002. It provides a broad overview of current research activities in reliability theory and its applications. There are chapters on reliability modelling, network and system reliability, reliability optimization, survival analysis, degradation and maintenance modelling, and software reliability. The authors are all leading experts in the field. A particular feature of the book is a historical review by Professor Richard E Barlow, well known for his pioneering research on reliability. The list of authors also includes the plenary session speakers Odd O Aalen, Philip J Boland, Sallie A Keller-McNulty, and Nozer Singpurwalla. Contents: Reliability Theory in the Past and Present Centuries; General Aspects of Reliability Modelling; Reliability of Networks and Systems; Stochastic Modelling and Optimization in Reliability; Modelling in Survival and Reliability Analysis; Statistical Methods for Degradation Data; Statistical Methods for Maintained Systems; Statistical Inference in Survival Analysis; Software Reliability Methods. Readership: Graduate students, academics and professionals in probability & statistics, reliability analysis, survival analysis, industrial engineering, software engineering, operations research and applied mathematics research.