"This sobering description of many computer-related failures throughout our world deflates the hype and hubris of the industry. Peter Neumann analyzes the failure modes, recommends sequences for prevention and ends his unique book with some broadening reflections on the future."…
This book is much more than a collection of computer mishaps; it is a serious, technically oriented book written by one of the world's leading experts on computer risks. The book summarizes many real events involving computer technologies and the people who depend on those techn…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2011, held in Naples, Italy, in September 2011. The 34 full papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submiss…
1. Preliminary concepts and background -- 2. Replacement policies with minimal repairs -- 3. Problems with applications to computing systems -- 4. Software reliability growth models based on NHPP -- 5. Release policies -- 6. Numerical computations in renewal and reliability theo…
With better computing facilities now available, there is an ever-increasing need to ensure that elegant theoretical results on hardware reliability are computationally available. This book discusses those aspects which have relevance to computing systems and those where numerica…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2012, held in Magdeburg, Germany, in September 2012. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more th…