In this paper we study the reliability of calculations of the structural reliability. It compares the exact reliability expression within the Bernoulli-Euler column theory with its counterpart obtained via the finite difference expression in the buckling context.

This paper presents a new, non-binary measure of the reliability of broadcast algorithms, called ∆Reliability. This measure quantifies the reliability of practical broadcast algorithms that, on the one hand, were devised with some form of reliability in mind, but, on the other hand, are not considered reliable according to the “traditional” notion of broadcast reliability [8]. Our specification...

The reliability diagram is a common diagnostic graph used to summarise and evaluate probabilistic forecasts. Its strengths lie in the ease with which it is produced and the transparency of its definition. While visually appealing, major long noted shortcomings lie in the difficulty of interpreting the graph visually; for the most part, ambiguities arise from variation in the distribution of for...

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...

Reliability is often understood as the probability that a structure will not fail to perform its intended function. In this paper, the general formulation of consistent evaluation of the safety of structures and the associated methods of analysis are reviewed. After the reliability analysis of a cantilever beam is demonstrated, the methodology of reliability-based optimization and the related p...

Moore’s law has been the driving force behind the increasing computing power of today’s devices which is based on shrinking feature sizes. This shrinking process makes future devices extremely susceptible to soft errors due to, e.g., external influences like environmental radiation and internal issues like stress effects, aging and process variation. For future technology nodes "Designing relia...

Software now controls banking systems, all forms of telecommunications, process control in nuclear plants and factories, as well as defense systems. Even in households without a PC, many of the gadgets and the automobiles are software controlled. The society has developed an extraordinary dependence on software. There are many well known cases of tragic consequences of software failures. In pop...

The notion of intrarater reliability will be of interest to researchers concerned about the reproducibility of clinical measurements. A rater in this context refers to any datagenerating system, which includes individuals and laboratories; intrarater reliability is a metric for rater’s self-consistency in the scoring of subjects. The importance of data reproducibility stems from the need for sc...

We present a concise overview of imprecise reliability, particularly focussing on reliability theory with uncertainty quantified via lower and upper probabilities. We discuss the main approaches and opportunities of the theory, we include references to guide further study, and we briefly discuss some research challenges.