Demining and unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance are extremely tedious and dangerous tasks. The use of robots bypasses the hazards and potentially increases the efficiency of both tasks. A first crucial step towards robotic mine/UXO clearance is to locate all the targets. This requires a path planner that generates a path to pass a detector over all points of a mine/UXO field, i.e., a planner t...

This paper presents a general testing coverage software reliability modeling framework that covers imperfect debugging and considers not only fault detection processes (FDP) but also correction (FCP). Numerous growth models have evaluated the of over last few decades, most them attached importance to process rather than process. Previous studies analyzed time dependency between modeled as delay...

In the present investigation, we deal with the reliability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two independent operating units, by incorporating the coverage factor. The probability of the successful detection, location and recovery from a failure is known as the coverage probability. The reboot delay and common cause shock failure are also considered. The times to failure of t...

The deployment of computer systems for the control of mission critical processes has become the norm in many industrial and commercial markets. The analysis of the reliability of these systems is usually understood in terms of the Mean Time to Failure. The design and analysis of high reliability systems is now a mature science. Starting with fault–tolerant central office switches (ESS4), dual r...


 The AnaChronisT would like to express the editors’ sincerest gratitude International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester and director Prof. Andrew Biswell for giving us permission publish this most valuable essay first time. only changes made by editors were some very minor corrections concerning a few obvious typographical errors standardisation of certain recurring expressions.&#x...