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 Publishing, Tokyo, 1998), SoftwareReliability: Model, Tool, Management (The Society of Project Management, 2004),Quality-Oriented Software Management (Morikita Shuppan, 2007), Elements ofSoftware Reliability - Modeling Approach (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2011), ProjectManagement(Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2012), Software Engineering - Fundamentals andApplications (Science, Tokyo, 2013), and Software Reliability Modeling:Fundamentals and Applications (Springer-Verlag, Tokyo/Heidelberg, 2013).

Dr. Yoshinobu Tamura received his B.S.E., M.S., and Ph.D.degrees from Tottori University in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From2003 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant at Tottori University ofEnvironmental Studies. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Lecturer and AssociateProfessor at the Faculty of Applied Information Science, part of HiroshimaInstitute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan. Since 2009, he has been working asan Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering,Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan. His primary research interest is inreliability assessment for open source software. He is a member of theInstitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, theInformation Processing Society of Japan, the Operations Research Society ofJapan, the Society of Project Management of Japan, and the IEEE.

Dr. Tamura received the Presentation Award at the SeventhInternational Conference on Industrial Management in 2004, the IEEE ReliabilitySociety Japan Chapter Awards in 2007, the Research Leadership Award in the Areaof Reliability from the ICRITO in 2010, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEEInternational Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Managementin 2012.

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.

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.