Int J Performability Eng ›› 2019, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (4): 1263-1264.doi: 10.23940/ijpe.19.04.p22.12631264

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Reliability and Availability Engineering: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications Kishor S. Trivedi and Andrea Bobbio. 2017, 726 pages, ISBN 9781107099500

Reviewers: Xiwei Qiu and Yuanshun Dai   

  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
  • Revised on ; Accepted on

Abstract: This book provides systemic and comprehensive treatment of reliability and availability (i.e., dependability) models of complex computing, communication, and network systems. It will be known as not only a classic textbook for any scholar who studies dependability modeling and analysis but also a technical reference for any engineer who develops dependability assurance techniques. This book is divided into six parts: 'Part I. Introduction', 'Part II. Non-state-space models (combinatorial models)', 'Part III. State-space models with exponential distributions', 'Part IV. State-space models with non-exponential distributions', 'Part V. Multi-level models', and 'Part VI. Case studies'. Some parts are further sub-divided into chapters. Thus, the book is well-organized so that readers can easily and explicitly find pertinent approaches and methods and understand how to solve a concrete problem of dependability modeling, evaluation, and analysis. We believe this book makes significant contributions to dependability engineering, as detailed below: