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 Shu
