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Dr. Shigeru Yamada received his B.S.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees
from Hiroshima University, Japan in 1975, 1977, and 1985, respectively. Since
1993, he has been working as a Professor at the Department of Social Management
Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, Tottori-shi,
Japan.



Dr. Yamada has published over 500 reviewed technical papers in
the areas of software reliability engineering, project management, reliability
engineering, and quality control. He has authored several books such as
Introduction to Software Management Model (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 1993), Software
Reliability Models: Fundamentals and Applications (JUSE, Tokyo, 1994),
Statistical Quality Control for TQM (Corona Publishing, Tokyo, 1998), Software
Reliability: Model, Tool, Management (The Society of Project Management, 2004),
Quality-Oriented Software Management (Morikita Shuppan, 2007), Elements of
Software Reliability - Modeling Approach (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2011), Project
Management (Kyoritsu Shuppan, 2012), Software Engineering - Fundamentals and
Applications (Science, Tokyo, 2013), and Software Reliability Modeling:
Fundamentals and Applications (Springer-Verlag, Tokyo/Heidelberg, 2013).



Dr. Yoshinobu Tamura received his B.S.E., M.S., and Ph.D.
degrees from Tottori University in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From
2003 to 2006, he was a Research Assistant at Tottori University of
Environmental Studies. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Lecturer and Associate
Professor at the Faculty of Applied Information Science, part of Hiroshima
Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan. Since 2009, he has been working as
an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering,
Yamaguchi University, Ube, Japan. His primary research interest is in
reliability assessment for open source software. He is a member of the
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, the
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