Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modeling. Each chapter is written by active researchers and professionals with international reputations, providing material which bridges the gap between theory and practice to trigger new practices and research challenges.

Postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, quality engineering, operations research, industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, management, and statistics will find this book a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and quality in design and practices.

Hoang Pham, FIEEE is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. His research interests include software reliability, system reliability modeling, maintenance, fault-tolerant computing, and biological systemability-risk assessment.