The inaugural issue of IEEE Reliability Digest (IEEE RD) will be launched in November 2014. The Reliability Society President Christian Hansen and Editor-in-Chief Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh would like to welcome you to enjoy reading the new RS magazine. IEEE Reliability Digest is a new on-line magazine published quarterly in February, May, August, and November, respectively. It is an extension to the IEEE RS Newsletter, which aims to become a forum for all security and reliability aspects of science, engineering, technology and applications. The main purpose of this magazine is to help readers worldwide who develop their work in the related fields. Reliability Digest aims at serving as a focal point for scholars, researchers and students worldwide who study reliability science and engineering to discuss the latest development and exchange scholarly outputs in the related field.

This inaugural issue covers special topics on trustworthy computing and cybersecurity. The Area Editor Wen-Guey Tzeng has strived to bring the latest research and share their scholarly endeavor with all the readers around the world. The November Issue of IEEE Reliability Digest includes topics on software modeling, testing and evaluation, cloud computing, security and privacy.

Articles in Reliability Digest address reliability, security and related assurance topics, including recent innovations and advancements of emerging new topics, along with revisited techniques and methodologies, experiences and practices, case studies and benchmarks, insights and recommendations. Reliability Digest presents the latest development in theory and practice, with special emphasis on meaningful applications of principles to solve important problems; thus, tutorial, survey and research papers are all welcome. In each manuscript accepted by Reliability Digest, at least 30 percent of the article length should be tutorial, providing the background information and related work, which would surely help the readers get a whole picture more easily.

Here’s the table of contents of Reliability Digest November Issue:

Software Modeling

Brahim Hamid, “Modeling of Secure and Dependable Applications Based on a Repository of Patterns- The SEMCO Approach”

Testing and Evaluation

Raul Santelices, Haipeng Cai, Siyuan Jiang and Yiji Zhang, “Advanced Dependence Analysis for Software Testing, Debugging, and Evolution”
Shih-Min Huang and Chin-Yu Huang, “Application of Multi-Model Combinations to Evaluate the Program Size Variation of Open Source Software”

Cloud Computing

Yi-Yung Chen, Yu-Sung Wu and Meng-Ru Tsai, “Memory Demand Projection for Guest Virtual Machines on IaaS Cloud Infrastructure”

Security and Privacy

Shih-Kun Huang and Han-Lin Lu, “Exploit Generation from Software Failures”
Chiawei Wang, Chongkuan Chen and Shiuhpyng Shieh, “The Achilles Heel of Antivirus.”

With all these interesting and informative papers, the inaugural issue of Reliability Digest will surely be worth reading. The November issue is coming soon, please check Reliability Digest website (http://rs.ieee.org/reliability-digest/issues.html) for the details.

The Debut of IEEE Reliability Digest

Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh Vice Presidentof Technical Activities IEEE Reliability Society

Shiuhpyng Winston Shieh
Vice Presidentof Technical Activities
IEEE Reliability Society