edited by Yu Hayakawa (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) , Telba Irony (Food and Drug Administration, USA) , & Min Xie (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

This volume is a collection of articles on reliability systems and Bayesian reliability analysis. Written by reputable researchers, the articles are self-contained and are linked with literature reviews and new research ideas. The book is dedicated to Emeritus Professor Richard E Barlow, who is well known for his pioneering research on reliability theory and Bayesian reliability analysis.

• System Reliability Analysis:
  • On Regular Reliability Models (J-C Chang et al.)
  • Bounding System Reliability (J N Hagstrom & S M Ross)
  • Large Excesses for Finite-State Markov Chains (D Blackwell)
• Ageing Properties:
  • Nonmonotonic Failure Rates and Mean Residual Life Functions (R C Gupta)
  • The Failure Rate and the Mean Residual Lifetime of Mixtures (M S Finkelstein)
  • On Some Discrete Notions of Aging (C Bracquemond et al.)
• Bayesian Analysis:
  • On the Practical Implementation of the Bayesian Paradigm in Reliability and Risk Analysis (T Aven)
  • A Weibull Wearout Test: Full Bayesian Approach (T Z Irony et al.)
  • Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of a Monotone Hazard Rate (M-W Ho & A Y Lo)
  • and other papers