Generic techniques in systems reliability assessment : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Generic Techniques in Systems Reliability Assessment, The University of Liverpool, UK, July 17-28, 1973]

A Preliminary Model for Achieving Optimum Reliability Investment in Chemical Plants.- Development of Systems Reliability Models from Basic Physical/Mathematical Concepts.- A Technique for Selectively Reducing Small Sample Error in Maintainability Demonstrations when Apportionment is Based upon Predicted Reliability.- On Definitions of Software Reliability and Computing Reliability.- On Some Objective Functions for Reliability Optimization.- A Comment on Reliability Evaluation of Software.- Power System Reliability Indices.- Reliability Techniques in Assessment of Nuclear Reactor Safety.- Digital Analysis of an Electronic Amplifier for Reliability Studies.- Operation of a Reliability Data Bank.- Reliability Optimization.- A Test Methodology Allowing Trade-Off of Reliability/Maintainability Requirements.- Fault Tree Analysis: Concepts and Techniques.- Optimal Availability of a Complex System.- A Review of System Reliability Assessment.- Security Assessment of Power Systems.- A Reliability/Maintainability Data Feedback System.- Design for Man-Machine System Reliability in Process Control.- Risk Indices for Evaluating the Reliability of an Electrical System.- Reliability in Mechanical Design and Production.- The Analysis and Synthesis of Safe and Serviceable Structures.- Fundamental Probability Relations for Repairable Items.- Unavailability of Statistical Models for Power System Reliability Studies.- Computer-Aided Synthesis of Fault Trees for Complex Processing Systems.- The Role of the Man-Machine Interface in Systems Reliability.- Human Performance Reliability Modeling in Time Continuous Domain.- Optimization of Redundant Systems: a Non-linear Programming Approach.- Software Reliability: Analysis and Prediction.- Application of Reliability Theory to Computation of System Operation Security in a Power Industry.- Shortcuts in Human Reliability Analysis.- Recent Developments in the Prediction of Human Operator Performance.- Some Design Aspects of Electrical Power Distribution System Reliability.- Reliability, Redundancy and Cascaded Priorities in Psysiological Systems.- Distribution of Time-to-Damage Method in Reliability of Pipes.- Group Reports.- Attendance.