**Meet the editors**

Prof. Fausto Pedro García Márquez (www.uclm.es/profesorado/fausto) obtained his European Doctorate in 2004 at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM, Spain) with a maximum distinction. He has been distingué with First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award, Runner Prize (2015), Advancement Prize (2013), and Silver Prize (2012) by the International Society of Management

Science and Engineering Management or the Advancement Prize in the Third International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. He is working at the UCLM, Spain, as an accredited full professor; an honorary senior research fellow at Birmingham University, United Kingdom; and a lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute. He was a senior manager in Accenture (2013–2014). Fausto has managed a great number of projects: five European projects as a principal investigator (PI), four FP7 framework programs, and one Euroliga+4), being a researcher in three FP7 programs. He was a PI in 2 national projects, and he has participated in 2 as PI and 2 as researcher; 4 regional projects, 1 as PI and 3 as researcher; 3 university projects, 1 as PI and 2 as researcher; and more than 130 projects with research institutes and industrial companies (98% as director). He has been an evaluator in different programs, nationals and internationals. As a result of the research work, he has published more than 150 papers (65 % in ISI journals, 30% in JCR journals, and 92% internationals), being the main author of 23 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, McGrawHill, InTech, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega, etc.), 5 patents, and more than 80 conference papers. Some of these papers have been especially recognized, e.g., by *Renewable Energy* (as "Best Paper Award 2014"), the *International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management* (as "excellent"), and the *International Journal of Automation and Computing* and *IMechE Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit* (most downloaded). He is an associate editor of several international journals, and he has participated as committee member in more than 30 international conferences. He is the director of Ingenium Research Group (www.ingeniumgroup.eu).

Dr. Mayorkinos Papaelias (PhD in Metallurgy, Chartered Engineer, Greece) is a senior lecturer in NDT and Condition Monitoring at the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham. Dr. Papaelias is an expert in NDT and condition monitoring technology. He has been involved as technical coordinator or scientific consultant in several FP6 and FP7 collaborative research projects.

He is the author or coauthor of more than 70 journal and conference papers in NDT and condition monitoring. He is also a member of the International Society for Condition Monitoring. Dr. Papaelias regularly authors articles for industrial magazines.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Engineering 1**

**Infrastructures 7**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Introduction to Dependability**

Fausto Pedro García Márquez and Mayorkinos Papaelias

Erica Teixeira Gomes de Sousa and Fernando Antonio Aires Lins

Chapter 2 **Modeling Strategies to Improve the Dependability of Cloud**

Chapter 3 **Continuous Anything for Distributed Research Projects 23** Simon Volpert, Frank Griesinger and Jörg Domaschka

Chapter 4 **Software Fault Injection: A Practical Perspective 47** Lena Feinbube, Lukas Pirl and Andreas Polze

Chapter 5 **Stochastic Reward Net-based Modeling Approach for**

Tuan Anh Nguyen, Dugki Min and Eunmi Choi

Taizhi Liu, Chang-Chih Chen and Linda Milor

Wlodek M. Zuberek and Dariusz Strzeciwilk

Chapter 7 **Advances in Engineering Software for Multicore Systems 105**

Chapter 8 **Modeling Quality of Service Techniques for Packet-Switched**

Chapter 6 **Reliability and Aging Analysis on SRAMs Within**

**Microprocessor Systems 85**

Ali Jannesari

**Networks 125**

**Availability Quantification of Data Center Systems 61**
