In today’s world, so-called “high-performance, sustainable” facilities are a dime a dozen. But many of these buildings rely on overly complex mechanical systems to carry out their mission. While these ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 54, No. 9, Part Special Issue: Modelling Organizational Knowledge (Sep., 2003), pp. 995-1001 (7 pages) In 1970, Esary and Proschan proposed simple ...

Failure happens, whether we like it or not. What’s important is to be prepared for failure to occur, which involves putting in place measures that allow us to quickly address or resolve the problem.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper considers an electronic system that upon failure is repaired. Only two states-the 'on' state and the 'off' state-are distinguished.

As concerns about grid security increase globally, it’s a good time to review the history, scope, and effect of North American electric system reliability standards. As the threat landscape changes, ...

System reliability often depends on the effort of many individuals, making reliability a public good. It is well-known that purely voluntary provision of public goods may result in a free rider ...

At the core of every electronics system is a chip that has to meet multiple conflicting requirements such as increased functionality, best power efficiency, highest reliability, lowest design cost and ...