OSS Reliability Measurement and Assessment [Paperback]

This book analyses quantitative open source software (OSS)reliability assessment and its applications, focusing on three major topicareas: the Fundamentals of OSS Quality/Reliability Measurement and Assessment;the Practical Applications of OSS Reliability Modelling; and RecentDevelopments in OSS Reliability Modelling.

Offering an ideal reference guide for graduate students andresearchers in reliability for open source software (OSS) and modelling, thebook introduces several methods of reliability assessment for OSS includingcomponent-oriented reliability analysis based on analytic hierarchy process(AHP), analytic network process (ANP), and non-homogeneous Poisson process(NHPP) models, the stochastic differential equation models and hazard ratemodels.

These measurement and management technologies are essential toproducing and maintaining quality/reliable systems using OSS.

Software Reliability.- NHPP Model and AHP for OSS ReliabilityAnalysis.- NHPP Model and ANP for OSS Reliability Analysis.- StochasticDifferential Equation Models for OSS Reliability Analysis.- Hazard Rates forEmbedded OSS Reliability Analysis.- Reliability Analysis for Open SourceSolution.

Dr. Shigeru Yamada received his B.S.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degreesfrom Hiroshima University, Japan in 1975, 1977, and 1985, respectively. Since1993, he has been working as a Professor at the Department of Social ManagementEngineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori-shi,Japan.

Dr. Yamada has published over 500 reviewed technical papers inthe areas of software reliability engineering, project management, reliabilityengineering, and quality control. He has authored several books such asIntroduction to Software Management Model (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 1993), SoftwareReliability Models: Fundamentals and Applications (JUSE, Tokyo, 1994),Statistical Quality Control for TQM (Corona PublŠ