with the huge global and wide range of attention placed upon quality, promoting and optimize the reliability of the products during the design process has turned out to be a high priority. in this study, the researcher have adopted one of the existing models in the reliability science and propose a bi-objective model for redundancy allocation in the series-parallel systems in accordance with th...

The evaluation of residual reliability of large sized parallel computer interconnection systems is not practicable with the existing methods. Under such conditions, one must go for approximation techniques which provide the upper bound and lower bound on this reliability. In this context, a new approximation method for providing bounds on residual reliability is proposed here. The proposed meth...

This paper presents the core principles of reliability in software engineering; outlining why reliability testing is critical and specifying the process of measuring reliability. The paper provides insight for both novice and experts in the software engineering field for assessing failure intensity as well as predicting failure of software systems. Measurements are conducted by utilizing inform...

oftware Reliability Growth Model is a mathematical model of how the software reliability improves as faults are detected and repaired. The performance of SRGM is judged by its ability to fit the software failure data. How good does a mathematical model fit to the data and reliability of software is presented in the current paper. The model under consideration is the, Gompertz model. MLE method ...

Confusion in the literature about the definition and calculation of repetitive member factors is identified. This confusion casts some doubt on the validity of the 1.15 repetitive member factor permitted in ASTM standards D245 and D1990. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST .1943-541X.0000413. © 2012 American Society of Civil Engineers. CE Database subject headings: Wood; Material properties; Reliability. Aut...

The FPGA overlay architectures have been mainly proposed to improve design productivity, circuit portability and system debugging. In this paper, we address the use of overlay architectures for building fault tolerant SRAM-based FPGA systems and discuss the main features and design challenges of a reliability-aware overlay architecture. Keywords— FPGAs; Overlay architectures; Reliability; Fault...

The abstract goes here. DO NOT USE SPECIAL CHARACTERS, SYMBOLS, OR MATH IN YOUR TITLE OR ABSTRACT. Keywords-Cascading failure; risk estimation; risk visualization; power systems reliability.

Social networking services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) are now major sources of World Wide Web (called "Web") dynamics, together with Web search services (e.g., Google). These two types of Web services mutually influence each other but generate different dynamics. In this paper, we distinguish two modes of Web dynamics: the reactive mode and the default mode. It is assumed that Twitter messages (...