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From commercial to life-critical applications, the proliferation of computing systems in everyday life has substantially increased our dependence on them. Failures in air traffic control systems, nuclear reactors, or hospital patient monitoring systems can bring catastrophic consequences. In order to enhance the dependability of computing systems, an effective evaluation of their reliability is desired. This chapter presents methods for evaluating system reliability, and indicates that stochastic modeling has provided an effective and unified framework for analyzing various aspects of reliability.

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