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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.
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If -J Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics Statistical Methods in Reliability editors B o H Liiidqvist & Kjell A D o k s u m Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics SERIES IN QUALITY, RELIABILITY & ENGINEERING STATISTICS Series Editors: M. Xie (National University of Singapore) T. Bendell {Nottingham Polytechnic) A. P. Basu (University of Missouri) Published Vol. 1: Software Reliability Modelling M. Xie Vol. 2: Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality Engineering H. Pham Vol. 3: Contributions to Hardware and Software Reliability P. K. Kapur, R. B. Garg & S. Kumar Vol. 4: Frontiers in Reliability A. P. Basu, S. K. Basu & S. Mukhopadhyay Vol. 5: System and Bayesian Reliability Y. Hayakawa, T. Irony & M. Xie Vol. 6: Multi-State System Reliability Assessment, Optimization and Applications A. Lisnianski & G. Levitin Forthcoming title Reliability Optimization & Design of Fault Tolerant Systems H. Pham Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics Statistical M o d s in Reliability editors Bo H Lindqv ist Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Kjell A Doksum University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Y | | j World Scientific «• Singapore • Hong Kong New Jersey • London • SI Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: Suite 202, 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL METHODS IN RELIABILITY Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics — Vol. 7 Copyright © 2003 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-238-321-2 Printed in Singapore by Multiprint Services Dedicated to the memory of Arnljot H0yland This page is intentionally left blank CONTENTS Preface xiii Contributors xvii I 1 2 II 3 4 5 6 RELIABILITY THEORY IN T H E P A S T A N D PRESENT CENTURIES 1 Mathematical Reliability Theory: From th