Reliability is concerned with the system capability of survival. In the past forty years, customer expectations have been increasing in response to evolving new technologies. As part of these evolutions, they are demanding from their suppliers: products with higher quality, low initial cost, improved customer support and products that are easy and inexpensive to maintain. For a supplier to surv...

This paper is an attempt to present a simple yet innovative planning method for determining the type of common bus in hub station (HS), devised on efficiency and reliability grounds. The evaluated by modeling curves converters under part-load full-load conditions, hence enabling realistic estimate efficiency. Reliability evaluation executed failure repair rate distributions HS components. optim...

Abstract The Bot Usability Scale (BUS) is a standardised tool to assess and compare the satisfaction of users after interacting with chatbots support development usable conversational systems. English version 15-item BUS scale (BUS-15) was result an exploratory factorial analysis; confirmatory analysis tests replicability initial model further explores properties aiming optimise this seeking fo...

Fault-tolerant systems are traditionally divided into fault containment regions and custom logic is added to ensure the effects of a fault within a containment region would not propagate to the other regions. This technique may not be applicable in a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) based system. While COTS technology is attractive due to its low cost, they are not developed with the same level ...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a communication and control infrastructure for smart grid operation. The proposed infrastructure enhances the reliability of the measurements and control network. The advantages of utilizing the data-centric over message-centric communication approach are discussed in the context of smart grid applications. The data distribution service (DDS)...

This paper is produced and circulated privately and its inclusion in the conference does not constitute publication. Abstract The UK currently only has one new light rail (tram) scheme being implemented. By way of contrast, a number of high-quality bus systems have been developed; for example Cambridge and Luton Guided-busways, Thames Gateway Fastrack, Crawley Fastway and 'streetcar' bus operat...

The operation of power systems has been complicated by the rapid diversification of loads. Analyzing load characteristics becomes necessary to different utilities in energy management systems to ensure the reliability of power systems. Here, we describe a method of analyzing and quantifying the load characteristics and introduce its application to pilot nodes selection for zone based voltage co...