Reliability Modeling with Applications

Essays in Honor of Professor Toshio Nakagawa on His 70th Birthday

Reliability modeling has been a major concern for engineers and managers engaged in high quality system designs. This book presents the recent advancement in reliability theory and reliability engineering.

Starting from maintenance policies, the book introduces reliability analysis to systems using stochastic processes to study their optimization problems. In this book, the authors will illustrate how these techniques of reliability are applied to solve optimization problems in computer, information and network systems.

Contents:

• Maintenance Policies:

  • A Dynamic Programming Approach for Sequential Preventive Maintenance Policies with Two Failure Modes (Hiroyuki Okamura, Tadashi Dohi and Shunji Osaki)
  • Selective Maintenance for Complex Systems Considering Imperfect Maintenance Efficiency (Mayank Pandey, Yu Liu, Ming J Zuo)
  • Random Replacement Policies (Won Young Yun and Li Liu)
  • Optimal Replacement Interval of a Dual System (Satoshi Mizutani)
  • Cumulative Damage Models with Random Working Times (Xufeng Zhao, Cunhua Qian and Shey-Huei Sheu)

• Reliability Analysis:

  • Modules of Multi-State Coherent Systems — Order Theoretical Relations (Fumio Ohi)
  • Calculation Algorithms for the System State Distributions of Multi-State k-out-of-n Systems (Hisahi Yamamoto and Tomoaki Akiba)
  • Multi-state Components Assignment Problem with Optimal Network Reliability Subject to Assignment Budget (Yi-Kuei Lin and Cheng-Ta Yeh)
  • Reliability Analysis of a Server System with Replication Schemes (Mitsutaka Kimura)

• Computer Systems:

  • Two-Dimensional Software Reliability Growth Models (Shinji Inoue and Shigeru Yamada)
  • Hybrid Coordinated Checkpointing Technique Using Incremental Snapshots (Mamoru Ohara, Masayuki Arai, Satoshi Fukumoto and Kazuhiko Iwasaki)
  • Predicting Effort and Errors for Embedded Software Development Projects by Using an Artificial Neural Network (Kazunori Iwata, Sayori Maeji and Toshio Nakagawa)
  • Optimal Checkpoint Times for Database Systems (Kenichiro Naruse and Sayori Maeji)
  • Periodic and Random Inspections for a Computer System (Mingchih Chen, Xufeng Zhao and Syouji Nakamura)

• Reliability Applications:

  • Dynamic Fault Tree Analysis (Tetsushi Yuge and Shigeru Yanagi)
  • Reliability Analysis and Modeling Technique for an Open Source Solution (Yoshinobu Tamura and Shigeru Yamada)
  • Maintenance Models of Miscellaneous Systems (Kodo Ito)
  • Reliability Analysis of a System Connected with the Radio Link (Mitsuhiro Imaizumi)

• Studies on Reliability and Maintenance:

  • Studies on Reliability and Maintenance (Toshio Nakagawa)

Readership: Undergraduates and postgraduate students, researchers and designers in the areas of optimization, mathematical modeling, stochastic analysis and industrial engineering.