edited by Tadashi Dohi (Hiroshima University, Japan) & Won Young Yun (Pusan National University, Korea)

The 2004 Asian International Workshop on Advanced Reliability Modeling is a symposium for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and the presentation of practice in reliability engineering and related issues in Asia. It brings together researchers, scientists and practitioners from Asian countries to discuss the state of research and practice in dealing with reliability issues at the system design (modeling) level, and to jointly formulate an agenda for future research in this engineering area. The proceedings cover all the key topics in reliability, maintainability and safety engineering, providing an in-depth presentation of theory and practice.

The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)

• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

• How Can We Estimate Software Reliability with a Continuous-State Software Reliability Model? (T Ando & T Dohi)
• Performing the Soft-Error Rate (SER) on a TDBI Chamber (V Chang & W T K Chien)
• Warranty and Imperfect Repairs (S Chukova & Y Hayakawa)
• Availability for a Repairable System with Finite Repairs (L Cui & J Li)
• Reliability of a Server System with Access Restriction (M Imaizumi et al.)
• Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Redundancy Optimization with Multiple Component Choices (H G Kim et al.)
• A Random Shock Model for a Continuously Deteriorating System (K E Lim et al.)
• Five Further Studies for Reliability Models (T Nakagawa)
• Computation Technology for Safety and Risk Assessment of Gas Pipeline Systems (V Seleznev & V Aleshin)
• Automatic Pattern Classification Reliability of the Digitized Mammographic Breast Density (T Sumimoto et al.)
• and other papers