The Handbook of Reliability Engineering provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art reference volume that defines both fundamental and applied work in the entire systems reliability engineering discipline. It covers both the theory of reliability engineering as well as practical applications for industry and laboratory research: the first and only such work on the market.||Topics include:| -System reliability and optimization| -Statistical reliability theory| -Software reliability| -Maintenance theory| -Accelerated life testing| -Practices and emerging applications.||Over 60 leading reliability experts in academia and industry have contributed to the book. Each chapter has been written in such a way that a practitioner of reliability engineering can easily understand and obtain useful results and findings. Practitioners will find this handbook useful when looking for solutions to practical problems. Researchers can use it for quick access to the background, recent research and trends, and most important references regarding certain topics. The Handbook of Reliability Engineering has the answers to most of your questions, and its outstanding organization and indexing make it easy to locate the information you need.||About the Author:|Professor Hoang Pham is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and safety Engineering and was Guest Editor/Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Systems Software, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation and IEEE Communications. Professor Pham is also Editor-in-Chief of the Industrial and Systems Engineering series, author of Software Reliability (Springer-Verlag 2000) and has published over 70 journal articles and 15 book chapters.