In today's technological world, nearly everyone depends upon the continued functioning of a wide array of complex machinery and equipment for our everyday safety, security, mobility, and economic welfare. We expect our electric appliances, lights, hospital monitoring control, next-generation aircraft, nuclear power plants, data exchange systems, traffic networks and aerospace applications to function whenever we need them. When they fail, the results can be catastrophic, injurious or even fatal.
This special issue aims to cover various areas in reliability including software reliability, accelerated life testing, fault-tolerant networks, software quality, warranty, maintenance modelling, and statistical models in reliability.
I would like to thank all of the authors, including the authors of submitted papers that could not be included in this issue. I also want to thank the anonymous reviewers for helping to improve their articles. Special thanks are due to the Editor-in-Chief of IJSS, Peter J. Fleming, for supporting this special issue.
Hoang Pham, Guest Editor
Department of Industrial Engineering
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Email: [email protected]