Why Research in Performability Engineering is Essential in the 21st Century -- The Science and Economics of System Sustainment -- Performability Considerations for Next Generation Manufacturing Systems -- Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Analysis and Management in Smart Manufacturing Systems -- On Modelling and Performability Evaluation of Time Varying Communication Networks -- Strategic Directions for Increasing the Performability in Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: An Empirical Study of India -- Evaluation and Design of Performable Distributed Systems -- Network Invariants and Their Use in Performability Analysis -- The Circular Economy and its Benefits to the Society -- Asset Management Journey for Realising Value from Assets -- Dynamic Asset Performance Management -- Characteristics and Key Aspects of Complex Systems in Multistage Interconnection Networks -- A Simple and Accurate Approximation to Renewal Function of Gamma Distribution -- User Personalized Performance Management of Computer Devices -- Risk-Informed Design Verification and Validation Planning Methods for Optimal Product Reliability Improvement -- Information Survivability/Security Under Co-residence Attacks in Cloud Environment -- Data Resilience Under Co-residence Attacks in Cloud Environment -- Stochastic Effort Optimization Analysis for OSS Projects -- Contribution to Global Warming.-New Theory and Index.

This book considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the activities associated with a product throughout its entire life cycle of the product, as well as the cost of minimizing the environmental impact at each stage, while maximizing the performance. Building on the editor's previous Handbook of Performability Engineering, it explains how performability engineering provides us with a framework to consider both dependability and sustainability in the optimal design of products, systems and services, and explores the role of performability in energy and waste minimization, raw material selection, increased production volume, and many other areas of engineering and production. The book discusses a range of new ideas, concepts, disciplines, and applications in performability, including smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0; cyber-physical systems and artificial intelligence; digital transformation of railways; and asset management. Given its broad scope, it will appeal to researchers, academics, industrial practitioners and postgraduate students involved in manufacturing, engineering, and system and product development.