International Journal of Performability Engineering is a refereed international journal and invites papers on theoretical as well as practical aspects of survivability, safety and sustainability of products, systems and services.

The papers may address any of the following aspects of Performability Engineering:

• Product Design and Optimization, Design Optimization for creativity, Product Design for Environment, Environmental Regulations and Directives
• Use of Improved Materials and Dematerialization in Product Design and Energy Efficient Designs
• Innovative techniques and technologies for Performance Improvement
• Quality Engineering and management: Off-line and On-line Quality Control, Statistical Process Control, Engineering Process Control, Quality Planning, Total Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Quality Improvement, Quality Management Systems, Total Quality Management, ISO Certification, Six Sigma, Product Life Cycle Management
• Product Warranty, Cost Analysis and Warranty Management systems 
• Reliability Engineering: Prediction Methodologies, Data Analysis, Modelling, System Analysis and Possibilistic and other alternative Approaches. System Reliability Design and Optimization, Reliability /Life Testing, Accelerated Life tests and test equipment, Reliability Growth Models
• Designing Clean Production Processes
• Waste Minimization, Recycling and Reuse Management
• Energy Audit during Production Process
• Process Reliability
• Managerial Approaches and Organizational Designs for Improved Performability
• The Human Dimension of Performability Engineering and Management
• Maintenance Engineering: Replacement  and Preventive, Predictive, Condition-based Maintenance Strategies and Models, Maintenance Optimization. Corrective Maintenance. Maintainability Design and Availability Optimization, Reliability Centred Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems and e-maintenance Framework
• Diagnostics and Prognostics Health Management
• Safety Engineering: Product and Plant Safety, Analytical Techniques for Safety Assessment such as FMECA, Static and Dynamic  FTA, ET, BDD and Models of CCF etc
• Risk perception and communication, Quantitative Risk Assessment, Risk Minimization, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Risk Management and Risk Governance.
• Environment Impact Assessment, Environmental and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Sustainability Assessment, Metrics of Sustainability, Economics of Sustainability, Clean  and Sustainable Technologies
• Industrial Ecology
• Economics of Life Cycle Activities, Internalization of Environmental costs
• Performability Engineering and Management in Engineering Curricula
• Applications of Performability Engineering concepts to all kinds of  technological products, systems and services

Besides, inviting innovative and original papers, state-of-art reviews and articles describing important and interesting recent case studies are also welcome.

Performability Engineering is a holistic interdisciplinary approach to optimally engineer dependable and sustainable products, systems and services