This paper presents reliability evaluation techniques which are applied in distribution system planning studies and operation. Reliability of distribution systems is an important issue in power engineering for both utilities and customers. Reliability is a key issue in the design and operation of electric power distribution systems and load. Reliability evaluation of distribution systems has be...

Object Oriented Design by Prototype Methodology (OODPM) integrates two known technologies: the object approach and the prototype concept. Object oriented methodology is used for internal system design, and prototype methodology is used for external system design. OODPM has certain benefits: in the planning and development phase, it reduces misunderstandings between the planner, the developer, a...

Software metrics provide a quantitative basis for planning and predicting software development processes. Therefore the quality of software can be controlled and improved easily. Quality in fact aids higher productivity, which has brought software metrics to the forefront. This research paper focuses on different views on software quality. Moreover, many metrics and models have been developed; ...

For an embedded real-time process-control system incorporating artificial-intelligence programs, the system reliability is determined by both the software-driven response computation time and the hardware-driven response execution time. A general model, based on the probability that the system can accomplish its mission under a time constraint without incurring failure, is proposed to estimate ...

enterprise resource planning system is a software package with extensive application which integrates all organizational functions in a single system. to implement an erp project in an organization successfully, selecting an appropriate system considering effective factors is necessary. the purpose of this study is to identify effective factors in selecting erp. this study has used expert choic...

This paper proposes an optimization method for planning adequate number and location of automatic switches in a radial distribution system. The purpose is to maximize the profit of that service reliability indices achieve the required level. First, a network equivalent technique is introduced to calculate the reliability indices. Second, by using the equivalent method, system reliability indice...

There exist various narrative systems, focused on different parts of the complex process of story generation. Some of them are oriented to content planning, and some to sentence planning, with different properties and characteristics. In this paper we propose a system based on BDI agents that generates stories (creating content, performing content planning and simple sentence planning) with nar...