Table of Contents

1. Reliability analysis of asphalt pavements: Concepts and Applications
2. Markov modeling of multi-state systems with simultaneous component failures/repairs, using an extended concept of component importance
3. Reliability Analysis of Solar Array Drive Assembly by Dynamic Fault Tree
4. Reliability and Maintainability of Safety Instrumented System
5. Application of Markovian Models in Reliability and Availability Analysis: Advanced Topics
6. A Method of Vulnerability Analysis Based on Deep Learning for Open Source Software
7. Mathematical and Physical Reality of Reliability Function
8. Optimum Staggered Testing Strategy for 1- and 2-out-of-3 Redundant Safety Instrumented Systems
9. Modified Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Model for Critical and Complex Repairable Systems
10. Methodology to Select Human Reliability Analysis Technique for Repairable Systems
11. Operation risk assessment of the main fan installations of mines
12. Generalised renewal processes
13. Multi-response maintenance modeling using Desirability Function and Taguchi Methods
14. Signature-based reliability study of r-within-consecutive-k-out-of-n: F systems
15. Assessment of Fuzzy Reliability and Signature of Series-Parallel Multi-State System

About the Author

Prof. Mangey Ram received his Ph.D. in Mathematics (major) and Computer Science (minor) from the G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a faculty member for ca. 15 years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently a Research Professor at Graphic Era (deemed to be University), Dehradun, India and a Visiting Professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering, and Management Sciences; Journal of Reliability and Statistical Studies; Journal of Graphic Era University; Series Editor of six book series with Elsevier, CRC Press-A Taylor and Frances Group, Walter De Gruyter Publisher Germany, River Publisher and Guest Editor and Associate Editor for various journals.

His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics.

Prof. Ram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Life Member of the Operational Research Society of India, the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a member of the organizing committee of several international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He was conferred the “Young Scientist Award” by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, in 2009, and given the “Best Faculty Award” in 2011; “Research Excellence Award” in 2015; and “Outstanding Researcher Award” in 2018 for his significant contributions in academics and research at Graphic Era (deemed to be University), Dehradun, India. Most recently, he received the "Excellence in Research of the Year-2021 Award” from the Honourable Chief Minister of the Uttarakhand State, India.

Dr. Hoang Pham is a Distinguished Professor and former Chairman (2007-2013) of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Before joining Rutgers, he was a Senior Engineering Specialist with the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and Boeing Company. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research areas include reliability modeling of systems with competing risks and random environments, software reliability, and statistical inference.
He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering and an associate editor and editorial board member of several journals, and the editor of Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. His numerous awards include the 2009 IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award. Dr. Pham is the author/coauthor of 7 books and has published over 190 journal articles, 100 conference papers, and edited 18 books including Springer Handbook in Engineering Statistics and Handbook in Reliability Engineering. He has delivered over 40 invited keynote and plenary speeches at many international conferences and institutions. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IIE.