A CSS1†is a system with the continues-state components. When a component has the ability to obtain all the situations from completely working to completely failed, it named continues-state component. In the real world, performance rate of elements are continuous and decrease by time. Continuity of components causes infinite working states and grows up the system states. In this paper we propose...

TIAA-CREF Institute is a part of TIAA-CREF and the views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of TIAA-CREF. In the context of the late 1990s stock market bubble and its aftermath, Peter Bernstein and others have suggested that volatile short-term trends and the availability of a wider range of asset classes may call for a more fluid asset allocation strategy tha...

This study attempts to propose an availability optimization decision support design system for repairable n-stage mixed systems, in which different combinations of subsystems, such as parallel, standby, and k-out-of-q, are connected series configuration. The enumeration method, tabu search, simulated annealing, non-equilibrium the modified redundancy allocation heuristic combined with a genetic...

In a previous article, the authors described a series of experiments combining probabilisitic logical inference with an artificial economics based attention allocation system. In those experiments, the authors compared their results with those from two standard examples chosen from the Markov Logic Networks literature. The examples were insufficient to determine the full usefulness of the integ...