In the software development life cycle, maintenance is the most costly activity because it requires more effort compared to other activities. To reduce the cost of software maintenance, it is essential to predict software maintainability during the early phases of software development. As a consequence of early estimation, further corrective and preventive actions can be performed more efficien...

MEMS energy harvesters are attracting researchers’ attentions from both academia and industries for the self-powering of sensing systems in vehicular applications. The possibility to convert the power contained in the mechanical vibrations into electrical power offers the possibility to replace traditional wired sensors with wireless devices, to simplify the on-board architecture, increase main...

The dependability assessment is a crucial activity for determining the availability, safety and maintainability of system establishing best mitigation measures to prevent serious flaws process interruptions. One most promising methodologies analysis complex systems Dynamic Reliability (also known as DPRA) with models that define explicitly interactions between components variables. Among mathem...

When developing new control, protection, and stability methods for power systems, it is important to study the complex interactions of the system dynamics with the real-time operation of the new methods. Historically hardware prototypes were developed to study these interactions. With the recent introduction of the much cheaper rapid hardware and software prototyping tools, developers are choos...

Conventionally, maintainability is seen as an attribute of software; measures which aim to quantify maintainability are all expressed in terms of attributes of the source code or related documentation. Such metrics do not correspond with intuition, and fail in important ways; for example they are not used by industry in assessing lifecycle costs. Maintainability is related to the skills of the ...

We study a learning principle based on the intuition of forming ramps. The agent tries to follow an increasing sequence of values until the agent meets a peak of reward. The resulting Value-Ramp algorithm is natural, easy to configure, and has a robust implementation with natural numbers.

Abstract Inertial vibrating screens operating in resonance and post-resonance mode represent a class of that present series advantages: simple construction maintenance, high flow rates, low energy consumption, level vibrations transmitted to the building which they are located, screening efficiency. Due these advantages, tend replace all other types screens. However, cisterns very sensitive var...