This paper provides: an overview of the methods that have been developed since 1977 for
solving various reliability optimization problems; applications of these methods to various …

Optimal Reliability Design is a detailed introduction to systems reliability and reliability
optimization. State-of-the-art techniques for maximizing system reliability are described …

Computing systems are of growing importance because of their wide use in many areas
including those in safety-critical systems. This book describes the basic models and …

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The authors present optimization models for software systems that are developed using a
modular design technique. Four different software structures are considered: one program …

Cloud computing has attracted and is still attracting a lot of interest both in practice and in
academia offering a variety of flexible, on-demand, and highly scalable computing services …

Component based software system approach is concerned with the system development by
integrating components. The component based software construction primarily focuses on …

Fault tolerant software uses redundancy to improve reliability; but such redundancy requires
additional resources and tends to be costly, therefore the redundancy level needs to be …

Real-time systems (RTS) are those whose correctness depends on satisfying the required
functional as well as the required temporal properties. Due to the criticality of such systems …

This report presents the results of the first phase of the ongoing EG G Idaho, Inc. Software
Reliability Research Program. The program is studying the existing software reliability …