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 BOOK REVIEWS COMPLETED IN 2007
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Publishers:
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Springer Verlag
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Authors:
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Chin-Diew Lai and Min Xie
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Stochastic Ageing and Dependence for Reliability
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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420
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ISBN:
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0387297421
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Reviewer:
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Suprasad V. Amari
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Review complete
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Review:
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This book is an important addition to several well-written books on reliability theory and concepts. The book fulfills the authors aim in providing a comprehensive treatment of both ageing and dependence concepts, with emphasis on reliability and survival analysis. The book has........(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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World Scientific, Singapore
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Authors:
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Alyson Wilson, N. Limnios, Sallie Keller-McNulty & Y. Armijo
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Title:
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Modern Statistical & Mathematical Methods in Reliability
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Year of Publication:
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2005
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Pages:
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428
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ISBN:
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9812563563
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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Review:
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This book is basically a research monograph prepared from selected reviewed papers originally presented at the fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 2004) hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LALN) and ........(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer Verlag
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Authors:
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Gregory Levitin
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The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization
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Year of Publication:
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2005
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Pages:
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442
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ISBN:
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1852339276
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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Review:
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This book is different in many ways. Firstly, it is rather a research monograph than a text book, which lists a total of 203 references and is mainly based on author's 44 research papers and a book published by him between 1997 and 2005. The research papers published between 1997 and 2002 were mostly in coauthorship of Dr. Anatoly Lisnianski and ........(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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Lulu Press
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Authors:
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Patrick D. T. O'Connor
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The New Management of Engineering
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Year of Publication:
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2005
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Pages:
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296
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ISBN:
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1411621492
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Status:
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Review complete
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Review:
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It is evident from the contents that the author who has spent his working life in a variety of engineering roles, covers all of the life cycle activities of engineering products. Since management is about.......(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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CRC / Taylor & Francis
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Authors:
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Andrew K. S. Jardine, Albert H. C. Tsang
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Title:
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Maintenance, Replacement & Reliability: Theory and Applications
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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322
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ISBN:
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0849339669
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Status:
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Review complete
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Review:
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Since 1973, Jardine's textbook, Maintenance, Replacement and Reliability has been very popular with students. A thoroughly revised and updated version of Jardine's original text is now available with his most recent.....(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers
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Authors:
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Min Xie, Yuan Shun Dai, Kim-Leng Poh
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Title:
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Computing System Reliability: Models and Analysis
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Year of Publication:
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2004
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Pages:
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308
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ISBN:
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030648496X
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Reviewer:
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Suprasad V. Amari
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Status:
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Review complete
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Review:
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This book describes the basic models and approaches to the reliability analysis of computing systems. It is a timely publication on the important and growing subject of computing systems reliability, which has wide use in many areas including those ....... (This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer Verlag
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Editor:
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Hoang Pham
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Title:
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Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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1120
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ISBN:
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1852338067
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Status:
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Review complete
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Review:
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This is the second handbook from the editor within three years. The first one, a 663-pages Handbook of Reliability Engineering, was also published by Springer in 2003. Also in this year itself, .......(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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World Scientific
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Editor:
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Achintya Haldar
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Recent Developments in Reliability-Based Civil Engineering
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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277
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ISBN:
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9812564195
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Status:
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Review complete
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Review:
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Civil engineering has been the oldest engineering profession of the world and had developed empirical wisdom of designing their systems very fast often using deterministic approaches. Yet civil engineers have been slow in .........(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Editor:
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Hoang Pham
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Title:
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Handbook of Reliability Engineering
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Year of Publication:
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2003
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Pages:
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663
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ISBN:
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1852334533
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Status:
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Review complete
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Review:
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The editor of the Handbook is the Chief Editor of an International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, published by World Scientific, for many years. He brought out a book in 2001, titled Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality Engineering, which was also .........(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007 issue)
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Publishers:
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Taylor & Francis
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Editor:
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Mohammad Modarres
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Title:
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Risk Analysis in Engineering Techniques, Tools and Trends
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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401
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ISBN:
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1574447947
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Status:
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Review complete
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This book comes from a professor who has taught the subject of Risk Assessment for past 20 years at the University of Maryland and has been Director of Center for Reliability Engineering, and is....(This review has been published in the IJPE Vol. 3, No. 3, July 2007 issue)
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