Dr. Mangey Ram received the Ph.D. degree major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a Faculty Member for around ten years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently a Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India. Before joining the Graphic Era, he was a Deputy Manager (Probationary Officer) with Syndicate Bank for a short period. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences and the Guest Editor & Member of the editorial board of various journals. He is a regular Reviewer for international journals, including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, John Wiley, Taylor & Francis and many other publishers. He has published 150 plus research publications in IEEE, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier, Emerald, World Scientific and many other national and international journals of repute and also presented his works at national and international conferences. His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics. Dr. Ram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, life member of Operational Research Society of India, Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, member of International Association of Engineers in Hong Kong, and Emerald Literati Network in the U.K. He has been a member of the organizing committee of a number of international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has been conferred with "Young Scientist Award" by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, in 2009. He has been awarded the "Best Faculty Award" in 2011; "Research Excellence Award" in 2015; and recently "Outstanding Researcher Award" in 2018 for his significant contribution in academics and research at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India).

• Chapter 1 Preventive Maintenance Modeling: State of the ArtSylwia Werbińska-WojciechowskaChapter 2 Inspection Maintenance Modeling for Technical Systems:An OverviewSylwia Werbińska-WojciechowskaChapter 3 Application of Stochastic Processes in Degradation Modeling:An OverviewShah Limon, Ameneh Forouzandeh Shahraki,and Om Prakash YadavChapter 4 Building a Semi-automatic Design for Reliability Survey withSemantic Pattern RecognitionChristian Spreafico and Davide RussoChapter 5 Markov Chains and Stochastic Petri Nets for Availability andReliability ModelingPaulo Romero Martins Maciel, Jamilson Ramalho Dantas,and Rubens de Souza Matos JúniorChapter 6 An Overview of Fault Tree Analysis and Its Application in DualPurposed Cask Reliability in an Accident ScenarioMaritza Rodriguez Gual, Rogerio Pimenta Morão, LuizLeite da Silva, Edson Ribeiro, Claudio Cunha Lopes,and Vagner de OliveiraChapter 7 An Overview on Failure Rates in Maintenance PoliciesXufeng Zhao and Toshio NakagawaChapter 8 Accelerated Life Tests with Competing Failure Modes:An OverviewKanchan Jain and Preeti Wanti SrivastavaChapter 9 European Reliability StandardsMiguel Angel Navas, Carlos Sancho, and Jose CarpioChapter 10 Time-Variant Reliability Analysis Methods for DynamicStructuresZhonglai Wang and Shui YuChapter 11 Latent Variable Models in ReliabilityLaurent BordesChapter 12 Expanded Failure Modes and Effects Analysis: A DifferentApproach for System Reliability Assessment Perdomo Ojeda Manuel, Rivero Oliva Jesús, and SalomónLlanes JesúsChapter 13 Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Data Analysis ofVehicle Components and Systems Zhigang WeiChapter 14 Maintenance Policy Analysis of a Marine Power GeneratingMulti-state System Thomas Markopoulos and Agapios N. PlatisChapter 15 Vulnerability Discovery and Patch Modeling: State of the Art Avinash K. Shrivastava, P. K. Kapur, and Misbah AnjumChapter 16 Signature Reliability Evaluations: An Overview of DifferentSystems Akshay Kumar, Mangey Ram, and S. B. Singh

Dr. Mangey Ram received the Ph.D. degree major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a Faculty Member for around ten years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently a Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India. Before joining the Graphic Era, he was a Deputy Manager (Probationary Officer) with Syndicate Bank for a short period. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences and the Guest Editor & Member of the editorial board of various journals. He is a regular Reviewer for international journals, including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, John Wiley, Taylor & Francis and many other publishers. He has published 150 plus research publications in IEEE, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier, Emerald, World Scientific and many other national and international journals of repute and also presented his works at national and international conferences. His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics. Dr. Ram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, life member of Operational Research Society of India, Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, member of International Association of Engineers in Hong Kong, and Emerald Literati Network in the U.K. He has been a member of the organizing committee of a number of international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has been conferred with "Young Scientist Award" by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, in 2009. He has been awarded the "Best Faculty Award" in 2011; "Research Excellence Award" in 2015; and recently "Outstanding Researcher Award" in 2018 for his significant contribution in academics and research at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India).

• Chapter 1 Preventive Maintenance Modeling: State of the ArtSylwia Werbińska-WojciechowskaChapter 2 Inspection Maintenance Modeling for Technical Systems:An OverviewSylwia Werbińska-WojciechowskaChapter 3 Application of Stochastic Processes in Degradation Modeling:An OverviewShah Limon, Ameneh Forouzandeh Shahraki,and Om Prakash YadavChapter 4 Building a Semi-automatic Design for Reliability Survey withSemantic Pattern RecognitionChristian Spreafico and Davide RussoChapter 5 Markov Chains and Stochastic Petri Nets for Availability andReliability ModelingPaulo Romero Martins Maciel, Jamilson Ramalho Dantas,and Rubens de Souza Matos JúniorChapter 6 An Overview of Fault Tree Analysis and Its Application in DualPurposed Cask Reliability in an Accident ScenarioMaritza Rodriguez Gual, Rogerio Pimenta Morão, LuizLeite da Silva, Edson Ribeiro, Claudio Cunha Lopes,and Vagner de OliveiraChapter 7 An Overview on Failure Rates in Maintenance PoliciesXufeng Zhao and Toshio NakagawaChapter 8 Accelerated Life Tests with Competing Failure Modes:An OverviewKanchan Jain and Preeti Wanti SrivastavaChapter 9 European Reliability StandardsMiguel Angel Navas, Carlos Sancho, and Jose CarpioChapter 10 Time-Variant Reliability Analysis Methods for DynamicStructuresZhonglai Wang and Shui YuChapter 11 Latent Variable Models in ReliabilityLaurent BordesChapter 12 Expanded Failure Modes and Effects Analysis: A DifferentApproach for System Reliability Assessment Perdomo Ojeda Manuel, Rivero Oliva Jesús, and SalomónLlanes JesúsChapter 13 Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Data Analysis ofVehicle Components and Systems Zhigang WeiChapter 14 Maintenance Policy Analysis of a Marine Power GeneratingMulti-state System Thomas Markopoulos and Agapios N. PlatisChapter 15 Vulnerability Discovery and Patch Modeling: State of the Art Avinash K. Shrivastava, P. K. Kapur, and Misbah AnjumChapter 16 Signature Reliability Evaluations: An Overview of DifferentSystems Akshay Kumar, Mangey Ram, and S. B. Singh

Dr. Mangey Ram received the Ph.D. degree major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a Faculty Member for around ten years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently a Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India. Before joining the Graphic Era, he was a Deputy Manager (Probationary Officer) with Syndicate Bank for a short period. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences and the Guest Editor & Member of the editorial board of various journals. He is a regular Reviewer for international journals, including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, John Wiley, Taylor & Francis and many other publishers. He has published 150 plus research publications in IEEE, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier, Emerald, World Scientific and many other national and international journals of repute and also presented his works at national and international conferences. His fields of research are reliability theory and applied mathematics. Dr. Ram is a Senior Member of the IEEE, life member of Operational Research Society of India, Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management in India, Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, member of International Association of Engineers in Hong Kong, and Emerald Literati Network in the U.K. He has been a member of the organizing committee of a number of international and national conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has been conferred with "Young Scientist Award" by the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun, in 2009. He has been awarded the "Best Faculty Award" in 2011; "Research Excellence Award" in 2015; and recently "Outstanding Researcher Award" in 2018 for his significant contribution in academics and research at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India).

• Chapter 1 Preventive Maintenance Modeling: State of the ArtSylwia Werbińska-WojciechowskaChapter 2 Inspection Maintenance Modeling for Technical Systems:An OverviewSylwia Werbińska-WojciechowskaChapter 3 Application of Stochastic Processes in Degradation Modeling:An OverviewShah Limon, Ameneh Forouzandeh Shahraki,and Om Prakash YadavChapter 4 Building a Semi-automatic Design for Reliability Survey withSemantic Pattern RecognitionChristian Spreafico and Davide RussoChapter 5 Markov Chains and Stochastic Petri Nets for Availability andReliability ModelingPaulo Romero Martins Maciel, Jamilson Ramalho Dantas,and Rubens de Souza Matos JúniorChapter 6 An Overview of Fault Tree Analysis and Its Application in DualPurposed Cask Reliability in an Accident ScenarioMaritza Rodriguez Gual, Rogerio Pimenta Morão, LuizLeite da Silva, Edson Ribeiro, Claudio Cunha Lopes,and Vagner de OliveiraChapter 7 An Overview on Failure Rates in Maintenance PoliciesXufeng Zhao and Toshio NakagawaChapter 8 Accelerated Life Tests with Competing Failure Modes:An OverviewKanchan Jain and Preeti Wanti SrivastavaChapter 9 European Reliability StandardsMiguel Angel Navas, Carlos Sancho, and Jose CarpioChapter 10 Time-Variant Reliability Analysis Methods for DynamicStructuresZhonglai Wang and Shui YuChapter 11 Latent Variable Models in ReliabilityLaurent BordesChapter 12 Expanded Failure Modes and Effects Analysis: A DifferentApproach for System Reliability Assessment Perdomo Ojeda Manuel, Rivero Oliva Jesús, and SalomónLlanes JesúsChapter 13 Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Data Analysis ofVehicle Components and Systems Zhigang WeiChapter 14 Maintenance Policy Analysis of a Marine Power GeneratingMulti-state System Thomas Markopoulos and Agapios N. PlatisChapter 15 Vulnerability Discovery and Patch Modeling: State of the Art Avinash K. Shrivastava, P. K. Kapur, and Misbah AnjumChapter 16 Signature Reliability Evaluations: An Overview of DifferentSystems Akshay Kumar, Mangey Ram, and S. B. Singh