This paper describes efficient data structures, namely the Indexed P-tree, Block P-tree, and Indexed-Block P-tree (or IP-tree, BP-tree, and IBP-tree, respectively, for short), for maintaining future events in a general purpose discrete event simulation system, and studies the performance of their event set algorithms under the event horizon principle. For comparison reasons, some well-known eve...

Purchase intention is the key to popularizing battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and to developing the industry. This study combines classical theoretical and qualitative research, and applies fault tree analysis (FTA) methods to study factors that hinder BEV purchase, and identify the logical relationship between top fault events and basic events, by calculating minimal cut sets and minimal path...

background: the study was developed in order to find a subset of potential factors, which affect birth distance pattern, regarding consideration on correlation of events of birth in a family and correlation within clusters/centers which other studies omit these correlations. methods: referring to documents that were registered for family in the health care centers on socio-economical zone, we c...

errors prevention and patient safety in transfusion medicine are a serious concern. errors can occur at any step in transfusion and evaluation of their root causes can be helpful for preventive measures. root cause analysis as a structured and systematic approach can be used for identification of underlying causes of adverse events. to specify system vulnerabilities and illustrate the potential...

The error that a wrong treatment plan be delivered was very serious. We vigorously explore effective method to analyze the factors which lead to this error, thus effectively improves radiotherapy quality. Fault tree analysis has been used for radiotherapy planning errors analysis in this study. After a fault tree was constructed from top to bottom then import the reliability data of basic event...

Event trees are a popular technique for modelling accidents in system safety analyses. Bayesian networks are a probabilistic modelling technique representing influences between uncertain variables. Although popular in expert systems, Bayesian networks are not used widely for safety. Using a train derailment case study, we show how an event tree can be viewed as a Bayesian network, making it cle...

Morbidity and mortality due to ‘‘medical errors’’ compel better understanding of health care as a system. Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) has been used to assess the designs of high hazard, low risk systems such as commercial nuclear power plants and chemical manufacturing plants and is now being studied for its potential in the improvement of patient safety. PRA examines events that contri...

Structured documents are usually processed by tree-based document transformers, which transform the document tree representing the structure of the input document into another tree structure. Event-based document transformers, by contrast, recognize the input as a stream of parsing events, i. e. lexical tokens, and process the events one by one in an event-driven manner. Event-based document tr...