Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Author

List of Contributors

1. Modeling the Assessment and Monitoring of Reliability of the Condensation Thermal Power Plants (Co-TPP)

Zdravko Milovanović, Svetlana Dumonjić-Milovanović, and Ljubiša Papić

2. Non-exponential Distributions in Reliability Modeling of PMS: Approximation and Simulation Approaches

Xiang-Yu Li, Jun Hu, Hong-Zhong Huang and Yan-Feng Li

3. Optimal Periodic Software Rejuvenation Policies in Discrete Time—Survey and Applications

Tadashi Dohi, Junjun Zheng, and Hiroyuki Okamura

4. Potential Applications of Multivariate Analysis for Modeling the Reliability of Repairable Systems—Examples Tested

Miguel Angel Navas, Carlos Sancho, and Jose Carpio

5. Phased Mission Systems—Modeling and Reliability

Kanchan Jain, Isha Dewan, and Monika Rani

6. Bayesian Inference on General-Order Statistic Models

Aniket Jain, Biswabrata Pradhan, and Debasis Kundu

7. Large-Scale Reliability-Redundancy Allocation Optimization Problem Using Three Soft Computing Methods

Mohamed Arezki Mellal and Edward J. Williams

8. A New Distribution-Free Reliability Monitoring Scheme: Advances and Applications in Engineering

Ioannis S. Triantafyllou

9. Modeling and Simulation of a Sustainable Hybrid Energy System under Changing Power Reliability Index at User End

Anurag Chauhan

10. Signature Reliability of k-out-of-n Sliding Window System

Akshay Kumar and Mangey Ram

11. Modeling Reliability of Component-Based Software Systems

Preeti Malik, Lata Nautiyal, and Mangey Ram

12. Reliability and Fault Tolerance Modeling of Multiphase Traction Electric Motors

Ilia Frenkel, Lev Khvatskin, Ehud Ikar, Igor Bolvashenkov, Hans-Georg Herzog, and Anatoly Lisnianski

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