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New Trends in Reliability Evaluation |
Krishna
B. Misra ( Editor) |
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New Trends in Reliability Evaluation |
Krishna
B. Misra ( Editor) |
Contents
| Section I | Future Trends |
| Section II | Towards Improved Techniques |
| Section III | Towards Improved Analysis |
| Section IV | Towards Better Tools |
| Section V | Towards Better Models |
| Section VI | Towards Alternative Approaches |
| Section VII | Towards Development of Non-Specialist’s Aid |
| Section I : Future Trends | |
| Part I : Reliability Engineering for the Future ,10-pages. | Gerard Collas (France) |
| Part II : New Trends in System Reliability Evaluation , 18-pages. | Krishna B. Misra (India) |
| Section II : Towards Improved Techniques | |
| Multiple Variable Inversion Techniques , 35-pages | Malathi Veeraraghavan and Kishore Trivedi ( U.S.A.) |
| Part I : Decomposition and Reduction Techniques , 29-pages. | Frank Beichelt ( Germany) |
| Part II : Probabilistic Graph-Reduction Techniques , 36-pages. | Andrew M. Shooman (U.S.A.) |
| Parallel Algorithms and Implementations , 18-pages. | Narsingh Deo and Muralidhar Medidi (U.S.A.) |
| Section III : Towards Improved Analysis | |
| Reliability of k-out-of n Systems , 36-pages. | Ali M. Rushdi (Saudi Arabia) |
| Consecutive k-out-of-n Systems , 15-pages. | S.G. Papastavridis and Markos V. Koutras (Greece) |
| Fault Tree Analysis , 62- pages. | Hiromitsu Kumamoto (Japan) |
| Section IV : Towards Better Tools | |
| Digraph and Causal Trees , 24-pages | Takhisa Kohda and Koichi Inoue (Japan) |
| Use of Petri Nets for System Reliability Evaluation , 25-pages. | Gurdeep S. Hura (Singapore) |
| Section V : Towards Better Models | |
| Human Reliability Modeling , 40-pages. | Joseph Sharit (U.S.A.) |
| Common Cause and Dependent Failure Modeling , 30-pages. | Per Hokstad (Norway) |
| Software Reliability Modeling , 33-pages. | Tom Downs (Australia) |
| Mechanical System Reliability Evaluation , 23-pages. | S.S. Rao (U.S.A.) |
| Section VI : Towards Alternative Approaches | |
| Use of Fuzzy Sets Theory (Part I : Theory), 45-pages. | Krishna B. Misra (India) |
| Use of Fuzzy Sets Theory (Part II : Applications), 33-pages. | Takehisa Onisawa (Japan) and Krishana B. Misra (India) |
| Dempster-Shafer Theory and its Applications, 37-pages. | Toshiyuki Inagaki (Japan) |
| Section VII : Towards Development of Non-Specialist’s Aid | |
| Expert System in Reliability Evaluation, 27-pages. | D.J. Russomanno, R.D. Bonnel and J.B. Bowles, (U.S.A.) |
| Reliability Analyzer, 48-pages | Krishna B. Misra (India) |