The objective of this study was to identify measures appropriate to estimate travel time reliability and apply them to study the reliability of travel time under varying freeway operating conditions. More specifically, a case study was undertaken to study travel time reliability along the I-65 corridor in the State of Alabama. The objectives of this study were to: a) Calculate reliability metri...

Standard packaging and interconnection technologies of power devices have difficulties meeting the increasing thermal demands of new application fields of power electronics devices. Main restrictions are the decreasing reliability of bond-wires and solder layers with increasing junction temperature. In the last few years intensive efforts have been invested in developing new packaging and inter...

─ Genetic algorithms are an effective tool to improve the allocation problem. In distributed computing systems task scheduling and reliability performance are the two major problems which are all related to allocation. Improving these two problems by minimizing the turnaround time and maximizing the reliability rate become the objective of DCS model. Also comparing the effects between them is t...

The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Masculine Subordination-to-women Stress Scale (MSS) in the rural Bangladeshi population. The scale was validated using a sample of 342 Bangladeshi married men from 5 northwest villages of the country. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a single-factorial structure of the scale: masculine subordination-to-women stress...

Estimating the reliability of a computer network has been a subject of great interest. It is a well known fact that this problem is NP-hard. In this paper we present a very efficient combinatorial approach for Monte Carlo reliability estimation of a network with unreliable nodes and unreliable edges. Its core is the computation of some network combinatorial invariants. These invariants, once co...

The scaling roadmap for realization of more than Moore in semiconductor industry has resulted in emergence of new types of devices, among them, memristive devices seem to be a promising candidate to be applied in various applications such as in memories and neuromorphic chips. However memristive devices face some challenges to be resolved before becoming a mainstream. This paper work analyzes t...

The purpose of this paper is to open a novel research perspective on reliable distributed systems. The underlying hypothesis is that dynamic models of distributed systems can be established by the use of data mining techniques being applied to data gathered in observing the distributed systems. Feeding observations in an on-line monitoring process into such a model allows predicting upcoming re...