Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective

1 The Signature of a Coherent System.- 2 System Reliability Optimization: An Overview.- 3 Methods for Assessing Network Reliability.- 4 Modelling Heterogeneity: Hierarchical Bayesian Approach.- 5 Spatial Neutral to the Right Processes.- 6 Models for Recurrent Events in Reliability and Survival Analysis.- 7 Information Functions for Reliability.- 8 Experiments for Reliability Assessment and Improvement.- 9 Analysis of Computer and Physical Experimental Life Time Data.- 10 The Shape of Failure Rate Mixtures.- 11 Burn-in - Sequential Stop and Go Strategies.- 12 Managing Software Development Process.- 13 Reliability Modeling and Analysis in Random Environments.- 14 Failure of Brittle Fibers and Composites.- 15 Modeling the Reliability of Hip Replacements.- 16 The Price of Failure.- 17 Warranty: A Surrogate of Reliability.