Reliability and Availability Engineering: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications - Hardcover

Trivedi, Kishor S.; Bobbio, Andrea

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107099501 ISBN 13: 9781107099500

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Do you need to know what technique to use to evaluate the reliability of an engineered system? This self-contained guide provides comprehensive coverage of all the analytical and modeling techniques currently in use, from classical non-state and state space approaches, to newer and more advanced methods such as binary decision diagrams, dynamic fault trees, Bayesian belief networks, stochastic Petri nets, non-homogeneous Markov chains, semi-Markov processes, and phase type expansions. Readers will quickly understand the relative pros and cons of each technique, as well as how to combine different models together to address complex, real-world modeling scenarios. Numerous examples, case studies and problems provided throughout help readers put knowledge into practice, and a solutions manual and Powerpoint slides for instructors accompany the book online. This is the ideal self-study guide for students, researchers and practitioners in engineering and computer science.

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Review:

'This book should be on the desk of any university teacher, any engineer and anybody studying the dependability of complex computing systems or communication networks. It is about 700 pages and is quite complete since it covers all the aspects of the dependability evaluation of such systems ... There are not only numerous examples and problems but a part of the book is dedicated to case studies providing the modeling of several real-life systems. Moreover all the chapters contain a quite interesting section for further reading. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the only book dealing so thoroughly and in detail with this wide subject.' Bruno Sericola, Reliability Engineering and System Safety

'The authors have produced an impressive volume, which consists of all existing methods of reliability and availability modeling with complete mathematical details and relevant algorithms. As one would expect from these authors, all mathematical concepts are illustrated using numerous examples and some examples are continued through multiple chapters to show the application of different techniques on the same basic example. Many (unsolved) problems are provided to allow readers to practice on their own ... It can be used as a textbook for a course on reliability and as a reference book for researchers and practicing engineers.' Veena Mendiratta, INFORMS

Book Description:

Covering both classical and advanced approaches, this comprehensive text describes the techniques used for evaluating the reliability of engineered systems. Including numerous examples, case studies and practice problems, it is the ideal self-study guide for students, researchers and practitioners in engineering and computer science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1107099501
• ISBN 13: 9781107099500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 726