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International cooperation on reliability and accident data collection and processing, exchange of experience on actual uses of data and reliability engineering techniques is a major step in realising safer and more efficient industrial systems. This book provides an updated presentation of the activities in this field on a worldwide basis.

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´General Session.- Error Analysis in Man-Machine Systems.- Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Analysis - Theoretical Background of the Computerized Methodology LIVIA.- Addressing the Problem of the Relevance of Reliability Data to Varied Applications.- OREDA Session.- Planning and Management of the Offshore Reliability Data Project.- OREDA Phase II Data Collection Experience.- Failure Rate Estimation Based on Data from Different Environments and with Varying Quality.- Session 1: Reliability Data Banks.- Data Selection for Probabilistic Safety Assessment.- A Reliability Data Bank for the Natural Gas Distribution Industry.- Guidelines for Process Equipment Reliability Data by CCPS.- Session 2: Incidents Data Banks.- IFP Databanks on Offshore Accidents.- OCAAR: A Tool for Incident Analysis, Reporting and Processing.- Session 3: Common Cause Data.- Common-Cause Failures - Evidence from Sellafield.- Stochastic Reliability Analysis - Its Applications to Complex Redundancy Systems.- The Distributed Failure Probability Approach to Dependent Failure Analysis and its Application.- DEFEND - A Dependent Failures Database.- Session 4: Uncertainties - Source and Propagation.- An Analytic Method to Estimate Uncertainty in a Risk Function.- Modeling of Fuzzy Measurements in Reliability Estimation.- Evaluation of the Probability Distribution of Evacuation Time from a Light Railway Transport Station.- Session 5: Computer Aided Risk Analysis.- Computer Aided Reliability and Risk Assessment.- Hazard Identification: A Proposal for a New Development.- Deliverability of the Danish Natural Gas System .- A Prototype Expert System to Perform Safety Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Offshore Platforms.- Session 6: Reliability and Incidents Data Acquisition and Processing.- Report on the On-Going EuReDatA Benchmark Exercise on Data Analysis.- Expert Opinions as Data Source: Methods and Experiences.- The Analysis of Electronic Component Reliability Data.- An Intelligent End-User Interface for the Collection and Processing of Accident Data.- Physics Models for Reliability Data Processing.- A. Database for Reliability Data Processing .- Session 7: Human Reliability.- Human Reliability Assessment and Probabilistic Risk Assessment.- Human Reliability Data Collection for Qualitative Modeling and Quantitative Assessment.- Quantification of Human Reliability.- Treatment of Uncertainties in Human Reliability Analysis.- Information and Communication Technology in the British Coal Industry - Systems Management and the Organisation and Reliability of Production and Maintenance Work.- Session 8: Probabilistic Safety and Availability Assessment.- ESFAS: An Information System on Worldwide Nuclear Power Stations.- Availability Assessment of a Technological Railway Information System.- Assessment of Failure Probabilities of Launch and Orbital Manoeuvres of Satellites.- Investigation of the Safety of a Ship Propulsion System by Monte Carlo Technique.- From the Plant Risk Analysis to the Area Risk Management: Problems and Perspectives.- Risk Analysis of a Large Pharmaceutical Factory - Methods Developed and Main Results .- Risk Analysis of Dangerous Good Transport in Spain.- Criteria for the Brazilian Directive on High Risk Plants - Recent Developments.- Design Optimization of New Plants by Reliability Engineering Methodologies: Application to a Subsea Pumping Station.- Risk Analysis of Large Petrochemical and Refining Plants - A Method for Tracking Complexity Based on Accident Experience and Indexing Techniques .- Risk Assessment of Operational Aspects in Offshore Drilling.- Availability Assessment of Complex Distributed Control System of a Petro Chemical Plant.- Reliability Assessment of a Charging Machine for Radioactive Waste Disposal.- The Availability of a Set of Inhomogeneous Machines.- Availability of the Pressure Relief Panel System at Pickering ´A´ N

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