Safety and Risk Modeling and its Applications presents the latest research in safety and risk with an emphasis on safety and risk in modeling, and its applications in several areas including transportation and security risk assessment. Each chapter is written by active researchers and/or experienced practitioners with international reputations, bridging the gap between theory and practice to trigger new research challenges in safety and risk in practice.

Postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners in safety engineering, maintenance engineering, quality and safety engineering, operations research, industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, management, and statistics will find Safety and Risk Modeling and its Applications a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and quality in design and practice.

Dr. Hoang Pham is Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Before joining Rutgers, he was a senior engineering specialist at the Boeing Company, Seattle, and the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls. His research interests include system reliability modeling, maintenance, software reliability, probabilistic risk assessment, and environmental risk assessment.

Dr. Pham has delivered over 20 conference keynotes and plenary speeches. Dr. Pham is the author or coauthor of 6 books includingSoftware Reliability Assessment with OR Applications (Springer, 2011),Maintenance for Industrial Systems (Springer, 2010),System Software Reliability (Springer, 2006),Reliability and Optimal Maintenance(Springer, 2006) andSoftware Reliability (Springer, 2000). He is also the editor of theHandbook of Reliability Engineering (Springer, 2003) and the Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics (Springer, 2006). He is the editor of the Springer Series in Reliability and has published over 200 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters.

Dr. Pham is the editor of 10 books and 25 conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and a guest editor of many special issues of journals including IEEE Transactions. Dr. Pham is an editorial board member of over a dozen international journals. He also has been Conference Chair and Program Chair of over 30 international conferences.

Dr. Pham has received numerous awards. His recent awards include Engineer of the Year Award for 2009 from the IEEE Reliability Society, the 2009 International Award from the Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operational Management, the 2009 William A.J. Golomski Award from the IIE, and the 2010 International Leadership Award from the Computer Society of India. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Pham received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science, both with high honors, from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. He received his M.S. in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Part I: Concepts and Methods
Risk Analysis and Management: Basic Concepts and Principles
Risk and Safety Management: Procedures, Methods, Experiences
Safety-oriented Bubble Diagrams in Project Risk Management
Review of an Insurance Policy of a Directive Seveso III Industrial Activity by Using Risk Analysis
Models and Methods of Ship-Bridge Collisions Risk Assessment
Human Error in Shipping: An Investigative Study
Part II: Advanced Methods in Safety and Risk
Risk-based Model of Information Optimization in Maritime Electronic Chart Applications
Dynamic Methodologies for Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Fundamentals of the Dempster-Shafer Theory and its Applications to System Safety
Two Generalized Competing Risk Models for Maintenance Analysis
Monte Carlo Method of Ship Underkeel Clearance Evaluation for Safety of Ferry Approach to Ystad Port Determination
Adopted Isochrones Method Improving Ship Safety in Weather Routing with Evolutionary Approach
Part III: Modeling and Analysis
Risk Analysis by Threshold Evaluation: A New Approach to OHS in Enterprises
Management Policy for Pre-payment Risk of a Monetary Facility
An Analysis of the Correlation of Expert Opinions in Security Risk Assessment
Mortality-Safety Analysis, Modeling and Prediction
Collection and Analysis of Climatic Measurements for the Assessment of Snow Loads on Structures
Combining Service Patrol and Crash Data for Use in Highway Safety and Operational Analyses
Part IV: Applications and Practices
Emergency Evacuation Methodologies for an Urban Area Using Advanced Microscopic Simulator
Novel Design of Tunnel Type Biodigesters
Uncertainties in Risk Analysis: Consequence Assessment in an Hydrogen Refueling Station
Agent System in Control of Ship Movement
Frequencies Assessment of Loss Containment Subject to Risk Prevention and Mitigation
New Aspects about Territorial Planning