The concept of accelerated testing by tracking degradation of samples over test time needs to be developed for reliability estimation. This paper aims at proposing practical approaches to conduct accelerated degradation testing on new and available used samples. For this purpose, product failure is related to a suitable physical property. Then, its failure time is defined as the expected time i...

Traditional control charts for process monitoring are based on taking samples of fixed size from the process using a fixed sampling interval. A recent development in control charts is the use of adaptive control charts, i.e. the variable sampling interval (VSI) and variable sampling size charts. This paper extends this idea to the autocorrelated process. We consider a time series model which is...

We construct forward-secure threshold signature schemes. These schemes have the following property: even if more than the threshold number of players are compromised, it is not possible to forge signatures relating to the past. This property is achieved while keeping the public key fixed and updating the secret keys at regular intervals. The schemes are reasonably efficient in that the amount o...

This two-part paper focuses on the modeling and diagnosis of multistage manufacturing processes. Part I develops a state space model characterizing variation propagation in a multistage process. The state space model describes a discrete-time LTV (Linear Time Varying) stochastic system, which strongly indicates that the existing system and control theory could be used to perform systematic anal...

in this paper, a reaction system consisting of two parallel, non-isothermal autocatalytic reactions in a continuous stirred tank reactor (cstr) has been considered. reactor chaotic behavior is possible for certain values of system parameters. two types of controllers are designed and compared in order to control both the reactor temperature and the product concentration. the first controller is...

Cartosat-1 satellite, launched on 5 May 2005, is designed to deliver high-resolution spatial data of better than 2.5m in stereo with ~27 km swath. The twin panchromatic cameras (Fore & Aft), with a fixed base-to-height ratio 0.62, image the terrain through alongtrack stereo almost simultaneously. The primary mission goal of this Indian satellite is to generate Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of a...