Dr. Toshio Nakagawa has worked for four decades in the field of maintenance modelling in Reliability Theory. He retired from Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan, and now is an honorary and visiting professor there. He has worked extensively on optimization problems in operations research, management science, analysis for industrial systems, and computer systems in reliability and maintenance theory. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed international journals and 5 academic monographs from Springer.

• Ch 1 Introduction.- Ch 2 Random Age Replacement Policies.- Ch 3 Random Periodic Replacement Policies.- Ch 4 Random Preventive Maintenance Policies.- Ch 5 Random Inspection Policies.- Ch 6 Random Redundant Systems.- Ch 7 Random Backup Policies.- Ch 8 Random Scheduling.- Ch 9 Cumulative Damage Models.- Ch 10 Random Models.

Dr. Toshio Nakagawa has worked for four decades in the field of maintenance modelling in Reliability Theory. He retired from Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan, and now is an honorary and visiting professor there. He has worked extensively on optimization problems in operations research, management science, analysis for industrial systems, and computer systems in reliability and maintenance theory. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed international journals and 5 academic monographs from Springer.

• Ch 1 Introduction.- Ch 2 Random Age Replacement Policies.- Ch 3 Random Periodic Replacement Policies.- Ch 4 Random Preventive Maintenance Policies.- Ch 5 Random Inspection Policies.- Ch 6 Random Redundant Systems.- Ch 7 Random Backup Policies.- Ch 8 Random Scheduling.- Ch 9 Cumulative Damage Models.- Ch 10 Random Models.