Warranty data contain useful information about product quality and reliability, but they are
usually coarse data because they may be aggregated, delayed, censored, missing or vague …

Warranty claims and supplementary data contain useful information about product quality
and reliability. Analysing such data can therefore be of benefit to manufacturers in identifying …

This undergraduate and graduate textbook provides a practical and comprehensive
overview of reliability and risk analysis techniques. Written for engineering students and …

We analyze workload traces from production data centers and focus on their VM usage
patterns of CPU, memory, disk, and network bandwidth. Burstiness is a clear characteristic of …

Currently, reliability issues are not addressed effectively in the development of new
products, especially in the early stages of this process. Product reliability depends both on …

Data bases regarding warranty claims for manufactured products record claims experience
and information about concomitant factors. If constructed and maintained properly, warranty …

Most companies maintain warranty databases for purposes of financial reporting and
warranty expense forecasting. In some cases, there are attempts to extract engineering …

This paper proposes a method of estimating lifetime distribution for products under two-
dimensional warranty in which age and usage are used simultaneously to determine the …

The internationalization of firms from emerging markets has been studied mainly from the
perspective of large firms. Smaller and younger international firms based in emerging …

Warranty data are a rich source of information for feedback on product reliability. However,
two-dimensional automobile warranties that include both time and mileage limits, pose two …