Kishor S. Trivedi is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, North Carolina, and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award. Andrea Bobbio is Professor of Computer Science in the Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica at the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy, and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
'This book should be on the desk of any university teacher, any engineer and anybody studying the dependability of complex computing systems or communication networks. It is about 700 pages and is quite complete since it covers all the aspects of the dependability evaluation of such systems ... There are not only numerous examples and problems but a part of the book is dedicated to case studies providing the modeling of several real-life systems. Moreover all the chapters contain a quite interesting section for further reading. It is, to the best of my knowledge, the only book dealing so thoroughly and in detail with this wide subject.' Bruno Sericola, Reliability Engineering and System Safety 'The authors have produced an impressive volume, which consists of all existing methods of reliability and availability modeling with complete mathematical details and relevant algorithms. As one would expect from these authors, all mathematical concepts are illustrated using numerous examples and some examples are continued through multiple chapters to show the application of different techniques on the same basic example. Many (unsolved) problems are provided to allow readers to practice on their own ... It can be used as a textbook for a course on reliability and as a reference book for researchers and practicing engineers.' Veena Mendiratta, INFORMS 'This is a very thorough and worthwhile book that can assist engineers and researchers to assess system reliability and availability and can serve as a valuable resource to educators in the field.' Ilias Iliadis, Statistics in Society Series A '... Reliability and Availability Engineering is an excellent book that puts all the aspects of the dependability engineering, particularly, theoretical models, analysis methods, and practical applications, in one place. It is bound to become an indispensable guide and reference for a broad range of students, researchers, and practicing engineers interested in scientific studies and the practice of dependability engineering.' Xiwei Qiu and Yuanshun Dai, International Journal of Performability Engineering