The journal "Reliability" has been published quarterly since 2001. It is included in the list of leading journals and publications of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC). Since 2010, the journal has been published with the support of Russian Railways. Since 2012, it has been published in two languages: Russian and English.

The journal comprehensively covers issues of reliability management (structural and functional) and system security (functional and informational), their standardization and certification, issues of managing system security and reliability risks, managing technical assets of large systems, and ensuring the survivability and fault tolerance of technical systems. Frequently covered topics in the journal include research results in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and intelligent transportation systems.

The peer-reviewed scientific and practical journal "Nadezhnost" is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia for publishing the main scientific results of dissertations for the degrees of Candidate of Technical Sciences and Doctor of Technical Sciences in the following specialties and corresponding fields of science:

The journal "Nadezhnost" is included in category K2 of the list of peer-reviewed scientific publications of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) (line 1483), approved by information letter of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated December 6, 2022, No. 02-1198 "On the categorization of the List of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications."

THE REPORT IS BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE BOOK BY I. B. SHUBINSKY "FUNCTIONAL RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS"

Reliability and Safety of Railway Automation and Telemechanics Shalyagin D.V., Shubinsky I.B.

The scientific foundations of fault-tolerance and fault-safety of control systems are presented. The fault-tolerance of systems based on structural redundancy is analyzed in the conditions of limited capabilities of control means. The technology of adaptive fault-tolerance of control systems based on the use of natural time and structural redundancy for the guaranteed performance of functional tasks in the conditions of occurrence of failures and errors as a result of the operation of control systems is presented. The ideas, methods and algorithms of implementation of adaptive fault-tolerance are described, allowing for modular control systems to provide the required levels of reliability in the conditions of insignificant time and structural resources. Methods for confirming compliance with the requirements of quality and information security of control systems and their software are given. For a wide range of students, researchers and specialists in the field of reliability and security of control systems.

It seems that we know almost everything about risk, but at the same time, we know nothing. By focusing on the etymology of the word "risk," researchers often overlook its nature, causes, and characteristics. However, risk manifests itself differently in different situations and can be both a characteristic of a random event and a measure of the quality of a process that unfolds over time. In the latter case, risk exhibits the properties of a wave process, necessitating the use of non-probabilistic measures for its measurement and evaluation. This work attempts to summarize the most characteristic manifestations of risk and propose methods for assessing risk that take these differences into account. The book can be seen as an invitation to discuss the nature of risk and how its formalism can be constructed. It is intended for a wide range of researchers and professionals in the fields of risk analysis, assessment, and management.

The course covers the theoretical and practical foundations of creating reliable and secure software for information systems. It presents the rules, stages, and technologies for building reliable software. The course discusses the requirements for the functional reliability and architecture of software for critical systems, the methods of protecting software from malware, the methods of ensuring the security of software during the testing stages, and the methods and tools for testing and protecting software from being studied by unscrupulous competitors and malicious actors. The course also presents the regulatory documents governing this field, as well as the procedures for confirming the reliability and security of software for modern information systems in accordance with the requirements of Russian regulators.

Central attention is paid to the issues of ensuring structural and especially functional reliability. The specifics of terminology in this area are discussed. A methodological basis for predicting rare dangerous events (failures) is presented. A complex of mathematical models and methods, as well as various metrics for checking the quality of the constructed models, is considered. Much attention is paid to the issues of standardizing reliability indicators. The results of the authors' current research in the field of train safety, including information security, are presented. For a wide range of researchers, railway industry specialists involved in management processes, as well as for professors, postgraduate students, and university students in railway transport.

This book introduces readers to the key provisions of the URRAN-based technical asset management system - a methodology for managing resources and risks by analyzing and ensuring the required levels of reliability and safety in Russia’s railway transport facilities. It describes the architecture of the URRAN information system’s unified corporate platform (UCP URRAN) and its subsystems for infrastructure facilities and rolling stock complexes. It also highlights the UCP URRAN’s prospects for development, especially in the application of artificial intelligence to predict dangerous events in railway transport operation. The book is chiefly intended for specialists engaged in practical work on the technical maintenance of railway transport facilities. It can also be used as a reference guide for students and researchers at railway universities or professionals who are dealing with problems in technical asset management in other industries.

The article discusses the application of the ISO 55000 series of standards [2] in the management of a company's tangible assets. It describes a technical asset management system based on the URRAN methodology [4,5.6] — a methodology for integrated resource and risk management through analysis and provision of the required levels of reliability and safety of railway transport facilities. The role of the Russian Railways holding in the Russian economy and the problems encountered in railway transport in the current pandemic conditions are highlighted. The experience of the International Union of Railways (UIC) in asset management is considered [1]. The article presents the main provisions of integrated management of technical maintenance of railway transport facilities, describes the objects, functions, processes, goals and objectives of the URRAN system [4]. The problem of constructing a digital risk management platform in the field of traffic safety is considered [17, 18]. Some results of research and implementation of the URRAN system for managing technical assets in railway transport are presented.

This textbook presents the theoretical and practical foundations for creating reliable and secure software for information systems. It describes the rules, stages, and technologies for building reliable software. It examines requirements for the functional reliability and software architecture of critical systems, methods for protecting software from malware, methods for ensuring software security implemented during the testing phases of software systems, and methods and tools for testing and protecting software from research by unscrupulous competitors and attackers. It presents regulatory documents governing activities in this area, as well as procedures for confirming the compliance of software reliability and security of modern information systems with the requirements of Russian regulators. Each chapter ends with test questions and assignments, as well as recommended literature. The appendix includes a brief glossary of terms, as well as some information necessary for mastering the subject area under study.

The book presents the conceptual provisions for ensuring the structural and functional reliability of information systems at all stages of their life cycle. Various types of structural redundancy are considered, taking into account the limitations in detecting failures. Under these conditions, the maximum capabilities of structural redundancy are established, assuming an infinite number of backup devices. . The article presents the theoretical and practical aspects of adaptive fault tolerance (active protection) in information systems, including methods and disciplines of active protection, as well as practical implementation techniques. A method for synthesizing active protection is proposed. The effectiveness of active protection in comparison with traditional methods of structural redundancy is evaluated. This article is intended for a wide range of researchers and specialists in the field of information technology.

 The book "Reliable Fault-Tolerant Information Systems. Synthesis Methods" offered to the reader is the third and final part of the "Reliability of Information Systems" project.

This book presents the fundamental concepts and indicators of the structural reliability of information systems, demonstrating the commonalities and specific differences between reliability indicators used in domestic and international standards. Recent changes in approaches to reliability modeling are reflected. Markov reliability models and graph semi-Markov reliability calculation methods are described in detail, illustrated with numerous examples. Considerable attention is devoted to engineering methods for calculating and approximately predicting the structural reliability of information systems, estimating calculation errors, and statistically evaluating reliability indicators. Each chapter ends with quizzes covering the most complex and significant material.

This book is primarily intended for professionals involved in the practical development, production, operation, and modification of information systems. It is intended for researchers specializing in the structural reliability of various discrete systems, as well as faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates specializing in information systems and automated control systems.

  E. N. Rozenberg, I. B. Shubinsky 

Russian Research, Development and Planning Institute for Railway Information Technology, Automation and Telecommunication, Moscow, 2005 

The monograph contains analysis of today’s theoretical and practical state of mathematical simulation of railway automation, remote control and telecommunication systems’ functional safety as well as state of harmonization of the branch norms and regulatory documents in the field of functional safety according to relevant international standards.

Technology and Tools for Testing Software Functional Security Diasamidze S.V., Kovalevsky V.V., Lozinin A.I., Shubinsky I.B.

  Экспертиза и сертификационные испытания программных средств на соответствие требованиям функциональной безопасности и качества

  Экспертиза качества и надежности программного обеспечения на федеральном железнодорожном транспорте

  A short study on rebooting safe computers and the impact on safety

  Functional reliability of information control systems for federal railway transport

  Timing analysis of a fault-tolerant technique subject to hardware failures

Definitions of dangerous failure and fail-safety are provided, the relationship and fundamental differences between functional reliability and functional safety are discussed, and alternatives for ensuring the fail-safety of control systems are analyzed.
The main cybersecurity threats and methods for implementing cyberattacks are considered, and a concept for ensuring a guaranteed level of control system cybersecurity is proposed.

  Defining Software Requirements

  This article examines the fundamental aspects of building reliable software. It discusses methods and techniques for preventing errors based on defensive and multi-version programming, passive and active error detection tools, and principles and methods for correcting errors based on dynamic redundancy and restart.

  This article describes the nature of faulty errors, their occurrence, and their impact on system performance. Methods for detecting faulty errors are discussed. Fault protection methods are described, and a comprehensive approach to ensuring system resilience to faults is proposed.

Reliability and safety of railway automation and telemechanics

  Experience in creating quality systems in software development organizations

  Software Certification and Quality

 Technology for a Comprehensive Assessment of Rail Transport Software

 Adaptive management system for technical maintenance of railway transport infrastructure (URRAN project)

Mathematical and information support for the URRAN system

An information system is a set of information and telecommunication tools that are used to create mechanisms for processing, transmitting, storing, and using information. The processes that implement these mechanisms using original methods and techniques are known as information technologies.

  Software Quality Characteristics and Methods for Assessing Them

Technology and tools for testing the functional safety of software

Technology complex estimation software of the railway transportation Lozinin A.I. Shubinskij I.B. *Diasamidze S.V. Moscow, VNIIAS, * Moscow, Joint-Stock Company " IBTrans"

Expertise and certification testing of software products Lozinin A.I. Software products used in railway transport in safety-critical systems tend to increase in complexity and volume with a parallel increase in the responsibility of functions performed by them. At the same time, the requirements for their quality, reliability and safety are constantly increasing.

  Relationship between CENELEC standards in the field of railway signalling and other safety standards

Alexander Fedorovich KULAKOV is a Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, and an expert at MTK 22 "Information Technologies"

Abstract. In this paper, we analyse various technical solutions for autonomous driving. Depending on the role of an autonomous system, different safety integrity levels may be required. We examine the three primary architectures. The first one is simply a support system that only requires a basic integrity, rather than a level. The second one is a simple replacement of the driver, which corresponds to SIL 1 up to SIL 2. The third architecture is an integration of ATO into a safe train protection system, which corresponds to SIL 4.