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Series Editor Preface
The Figure given below represents the concept of performability as introduced by the editor in 2005 and reflects a holistic view of designing, producing, using, and disposing products, systems or services, which will satisfy not only the basic operational requirements to the best possible extent with minimum cost, but are also sustainable. Sustainability aspect of products, systems and services includes that they consume minimum material and energy in their production, use and disposal and produce minimum waste in order to create minimum environmental impact which is of prime importance and requirement in the 21st Century. In other words, it should represent the holistic performance.
In fact, the concept of performability and sustainable development are closely interlinked. To promote the concept to wider section of engineering community, consisting of planners, designers, manufacturers, researchers, technologists and users, the Editor published the first book on performability engineering in 2008 [1]. The book consisted of 76 chapters with 100 contributors and touching on all aspects of performability with the Editor himself contributing 15 chapters. The response to this book has been overwhelming with more than 495,445 chapter downloads to the end of 2019. A German company, ResearchGate, which keeps track of chapters, books etc., read by people the world over, reports that the main chapters authored by the Editor himself had the following statistics as of June 04, 2020:
| Title of the Chapter | Chapter # | Total Reads |
| Quality Engineering and Management, pp. 157-170. | Chapter 12 | 18813 |
| Reliability Engineering: A Perspective, pp. 253-288. | Chapter 19 | 8324 |
| Risk Analysis and Management: An Introduction, pp. 661-674. (Safety) | Chapter 41 | 1602 |
| Maintenance Engineering and Maintainability: An Introduction, pp. 747-764. | Chapter 46 | 7477 |
| Sustainability: Motivation and Pathways for Implementation, pp. 835-848. | Chapter 51 | 377 |
This indicates the interest evinced by readers the world over in the subject of performability engineering. Encouraged by this interest, Scrivener Publishing LLC undertook the publication of a series of books in the area of performability engineering with Prof. Krishna B. Misra and Prof. John Andrews of Nottingham University, UK as Series Editors in 2014, and it is matter of satisfaction that as many as 10 books have been published under this series so far. The books published under this series have solicited good number of citations in spite of the fact that much time has not elapsed after their publication.
As an Editor of this series, I solicit manuscript of books from academicians, engineers and researchers in any area of Performability Engineering. For details, please contact the Series Editor.
Krishna B. Misra, Series Editor
June 2020
1 [1] Misra, Krishna B. (Editor), Handbook of Performability Engineering, Springer, London, 2008.
