Modern statistical and mathematical methods in reliability

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Monograph, the 1st edition, World Scientific, London, 2005, pg.427This volume is published on the occasion of the fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 2004). A broad overview of current research activities in reliability theory and its applications is provided with coverage on reliability modeling, network and system reliability, Bayesian methods, survival analysis, degradation and maintenance modeling, and software reliability.CONTENTS:Competing risk modeling in reliabilityGame-theoretic and reliability methods in counter-terrorism and securityRegression models for reliability given the usage accumulation historyBayesian methods for assessing system reliability - Models and computationDynamic modeling in reliability and survival analysisEnd of life analysisReliability analysis of a dynamic phased mission system - Comparison of two approachesSensitivity analysis of accelerated life tests with competing failure modesEstimating mean cumulative functions from truncated automotive warranty dataTests for some statistical hypotheses for dependent competing risksRepair efficiency estimation in the ARI1 imperfect repair modelOn repairable components with continuous outputEffects of uncertainties in components on the survival of complex systems with given dependenciesDynamic management of systems undergoing evolutionary acquisitionReliability analysis of renewable redundant systems with unreliable monitoring and switchingPlanning models for component-based software offerings under uncertain operational profilesDestructive stockpile reliability assessments - Semiparametric estimation of errors in variables with validation sample approachFlowgraph models for complex multistate system reliabilityInterpretation of condition monitoring dataNonproportional semiparametric regression models for censored dataBinary representations of multi-state systemsDistribution-free continuous Bayesian belief netsStatistical modeling and inference for component failure times under preventive maintenance and independent censoringImportance sampling for dynamic systemsLeveraging remote diagnostics data for predictive maintenanceFrom artificial intelligence to dependability - Modeling and analysis with Bayesian networksReliability computation for usage-based testingK-mart stochastic modeling using iterated total time on test transforms