Electronic Systems Effectiveness and Life Cycle Costing

I Mathematical Background and Techniques.- 1.1 System Reliability Analysis: Foundations.- 1.2 Complex System Modelling with Fault Trees and Stochastic Processes.- 1.3 Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis.- 1.4 Some Bayesian Approaches for Estimating the Failure Rate.- 1.5 Exponential Lifetime Model with Delayed Failure Detection.- 1.6 Point Processes and Renewal Theory: A Brief Survey.- Comments on Professor Cox's Paper.- 1.7 Regression Analysis of Repairable Systems Reliability.- 1.8 The Martingale Theory of Point Processes and its Application to the Analysis of Failure-Time Data.- 1.9 Risk Theory, Queue Theory and Life Distributions.- II Reliability - II a Hardware.- 2.1 RADC Failure Rate Prediction Methodology - Today and Tomorrow.- 2.2 Reliability Models - Practical Constraints.- 2.3 Statistical Detection of the Underlying Failure Distributions when Individual Failure Times are Missing.- 2.4 PANEL DISCUSSION on Empirical Failure-Rate Prediction Models chaired and organized.- 2.5 On Methods for Reliability Growth Assessment During Development.- 2.6 Advanced Reliability Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Computer-Based Systems.- 2.7 NASA Approach to Space Shuttle Reliability.- 2.8 Satellite Reliability Estimation: Past and Present Procedures.- 2.9 Automatic Fault Diagnosis for Power Electronic Systems.- 2.10 Some Special Aspects of Mechanical Reliability.- Response to Paper on Some Special Aspects of Mechanical Reliability A.D.S.Carter.- RELIABILITY - II b Software.- 2.11 Software Reliability Models: Concepts, Classification, Comparisons, and Practice.- 2.12 Developing Electronic Systems with Certifiable Reliability.- 2.13 On the Quality of Software Reliability Prediction.- 2.14 PANEL DISCUSSION on Achieving the Reliability and Safety Relevant to ComputerSystems.- 2.15 PANEL DISCUSSION on Software Versus Hardware Reliability and Maintainability.- III Life Cycle Costing and Spares Allocation.- 3.1 Life Cycle Cost Models.- 3.2 PANEL DISCUSSION on Risk and Uncertainty Aspects of Life Cycle Costing.- Including Papers by.- Life Cycle Cost Models and Associated Uncertainties.- An Application of Logistic Support Cost Estimation in a Contracting Environment.- Uncertainties of LCC Predictions.- Uncertainties in Monte Carlo Simulation of Life Cycle Costs.- The Treatment of Risk in Analysis: A Framework for Discussion.- 3.3 Decision Analysis and Life Cycle Costing.- 3.4 Component and System Replacement Decisions.- 3.5 Problems in Optimal Spare Provisioning.- IV Two Panel Discussions.- 1. PANEL DISCUSSION on Assessment of the Performance of Warranties.- 2. PANEL DISCUSSION on Design Audit Programs.- List of Lecturers and Delegates.