Event trees are a popular technique for modelling accidents in system safety analyses. Bayesian networks are a probabilistic modelling technique representing influences between uncertain variables. Although popular in expert systems, Bayesian networks are not used widely for safety. Using a train derailment case study, we show how an event tree can be viewed as a Bayesian network, making it cle...

In examining spike trains, different models are used to describe their structure. The different models often seem quite similar, but because they are cast in different formalisms, it is often difficult to compare their predictions. Here we use the information-geometric measure, an orthogonal coordinate representation of point processes, to express different models of stochastic point processes ...

The introduction of low-cost long-distance passenger trains will improve transport availability, expand the geography routes, increase train departure frequency, resulting thus in growth turnover and carriers’ incomes. From standpoint national economy, emergence that kind contribute to better mobility population, labour market balance, tourist attractiveness country its regions, GDP thanks mult...

an attempt is made for the first time to solve the quadratic and cubic model of magneto hydrodynamic poiseuille flow of phan-thein-tanner (ptt). series solution of magneto hydrodynamic (mhd) flow is developed by using homotopy perturbation method (hpm). results are presented graphically and the effects of non-dimensional parameters on the flow field are analyzed. the results obtained reveals ma...

laguerre function has many advantages such as good approximation capability for different systems, low computational complexity and the facility of on-line parameter identification. therefore, it is widely adopted for complex industrial process control. in this work, laguerre function based adaptive model predictive control algorithm (ampc) was implemented to control continuous stirred tank rea...

At present, the railway transport are always held up or even suspended because of the natural disasters occurred frequently. In order to guarantee the smooth operation of the railway transport and reduce the number of trains affected by the disasters as few as possible, proposal of train scheduling scheme with optimal invulnerability is proposed in this paper. Firstly, train scheduling network ...

The control of nonlinear systems is difficult because no systematic mathematical tools exist to help find necessary and sufficient conditions to guarantee their stability and performance. The problem becomes yet more complex if some of the plant parameters are unknown. By using a Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy plant model [1]-[4], a nonlinear system can be expressed as a weighted sum of some si...