Applied Statistics and Reliability Analysis

th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling (APARM 2010) was held in Wellington, New Zealand, 2-4 December 2010, as a unique symposium for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and its practice in reliability engineering and related issues in the Asian-Pacific area. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers, scientists and practitioners from Asian-Pacific countries to discuss the state of research and practice when dealing with reliability issues at the design-test phase and operation-maintenance phase, and to jointly formulate an agenda for future research in this emerging area. In APARM 2010, through the normal review process by referees, finally, 106 papers were accepted for presentation and were included in the Proceedings, which was published by McGraw-Hill International Enterprises, Inc. 4