Along with increasing the warranty period for complex systems, reducing the warranty servicing costs has become an issue of great importance to the manufacturers. One possible way to reduce the expected warranty servicing cost is by making sound decision on the product warranty and maintenance...

In the summer of 2004, the Asian International Workshop on Advanced Reliability Modeling (AIWARM) was held in Hiroshima, Japan. In this two-day workshop, variety of problems and issues related to Reliability Theory were discussed. One of the special sessions organized on behalf of this Workshop...