Contents

#### **Preface XI**


Wlodek M. Zuberek and Dariusz Strzeciwilk


Preface

The new technology and system communication advances are being employed in any sys‐ tem, being more complex. The system dependability considers the technical complexity, size, and interdependency of the system. The stochastic characteristic together with the com‐ plexity of the systems as dependability requires to be under control the Reliability, Availa‐ bility, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS). The dependability contemplates, therefore, the faults/failures, downtimes, stoppages, worker errors, etc. Dependability also refers to emer‐ gent properties, i.e., properties generated indirectly from other systems by the system ana‐ lyzed [1]. Dependability, understood as general description of system performance, requires advanced analytics that are considered in this book. Dependability management and engi‐

This book presents 12 chapters. Chapter 1 is an Introductory Chapter. Chapter 2 shows the modeling strategies to improve the dependability of cloud infrastructures. Continuous any‐ thing for distributed research projects is considered in Chapter 3. A practical perspective of software fault injection is studied in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 shows a stochastic reward netbased modeling approach for availability quantification of data center systems. Chapter 6 presents a reliability and aging analysis on SRAMS within microprocessor systems. Advan‐ ces in engineering software for multicore systems are described in Chapter 7. Modeling quality of service techniques for packetswitched networks is analyzed in Chapter 8. Discreti‐ zation of random fields representing material properties and distributed loads in FORM analysis is drawn in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 considers the energy savings in EAF steelmaking by process simulation and data science modeling on the reproduced results. Chapter 11 presents the use of renewable energy for electrification of rural community to stop migra‐ tion of youth from rural area to urban, with a case study of Tanzania. Finally, a case study of

The diversity of the issues is covered in this book from algorithms, mathematical models, and software engineering, by design methodologies and technical or practical solutions. This book intends to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art, case studies, hardware and software solutions, analytics, and data science in de‐

> **Fausto Pedro García Márquez** Ingenium Research Group

> > **Mayorkinos Papaelias**

University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

School of Metallurgy and Materials Birmingham University, United Kingdom

neering are covered with case studies and best practices [2].

reliability in renewable energy systems is studied in Chapter 12.

pendability engineering.

