Handbook of Advanced Performability Engineering

Dr. Krishna B. Misra (b.1943) is a retired eminent Professor of the Indian Institute of Technology and an internationally respected scholar, who has been involved in the field of reliability for over five decades. In 1983, he was presented with the very first Lal C. Verman award by The Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers for his contributions in reliability engineering. In 1995 Professor Misra was awarded a plaque by the IEEE Reliability Society "in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding contributions to reliability engineering and furthering of reliability engineering education and development in India." In 2005, after retiring from IIT, Kharagpur, where he established the first-ever postgraduate course on reliability engineering in India in 1982, and the Reliability Engineering Centre in 1983, he launched the International Journal of Performability Engineering from Jaipur, India and has since led the journal as its Founder Editor-in-Chief. He has published over 250 papers in leading international journals and five books. He was elected a Fellow of Safety & Reliability Society (U.K.) in 1981. He is Fellow of Indian Academy of Science (1983) as well as India n National Academy of Engineering (1995).

Why Research in Performability Engineering is Essential in the 21^st Century.- The Science and Economics of System Sustainment.- Performability Considerations for Next Generation Manufacturing Systems.- Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Analysis and Management in Smart Manufacturing Systems.- On Modelling and Performability Evaluation of Time Varying Communication Networks.- Strategic Directions for Increasing the Performability in Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Study of India.- Evaluation and Design of Performable Distributed Systems.- Network Invariants and Their Use in Performability Analysis.- The Circular Economy and its Benefits to the Society.- Asset Management Journey for Realising Value from Assets.- Dynamic Asset Performance Management.- Characteristics and Key Aspects of Complex Systems in Multistage Interconnection Networks.- A Simple and Accurate Approximation to Renewal Function of Gamma Distribution.- User Personalized Performance Management of Computer Devices.- Risk-Informed Design Verification and Validation Planning Methods for Optimal Product Reliability Improvement.- Information Survivability/Security Under Co-residence Attacks in Cloud Environment.- Data Resilience Under Co-residence Attacks in Cloud Environment.- Stochastic Effort Optimization Analysis for OSS Projects.- Contribution to Global Warming.-New Theory and Index.