Technical Note—Cannibalization Policies for Multistate Systems

Privacy Policies Considerations in Socio-Technical Systems

The idea of a socio-technical system (STS) is an intellectual tool to help recognize patterns in the way technology is used and produced. Identification of these patterns will help in analyzing the ethical issues associated with the technology-and-its-social-system [1]. By way of example, consider a relatively simple technology: a set of twenty laptops connected by a local area network. The soc...

channel estimation for mimo-ofdm systems

تخمین دقیق مشخصات کانال در سیستم های مخابراتی یک امر مهم محسوب می گردد. این امر به ویژه در کانال های بیسیم با ‏خاصیت فرکانس گزینی و زمان گزینی شدید، چالش بزرگی است. مقالات متعدد پر از روش های مبتکرانه ای برای طراحی و آنالیز ‏الگوریتم های تخمین کانال است که بیشتر آنها از روش های خاصی استفاده می کنند که یا دارای عملکرد خوب با پیچیدگی ‏محاسباتی بالا هستند و یا با عملکرد نه چندان خوب پیچیدگی پایینی...

Reliability Analysis for the Multistate Systems

Joint importance of multistate systems

Importance measures in reliability engineering are used to identify weak areas of a system and signify the roles of components in either causing or contributing to proper functioning of the system. Traditional importance measures for multistate systems mainly concern reliability importance of an individual component and seldom consider the utility performance of the system. This paper extends t...

A BDD-Based Algorithm for Analysis of Multistate Systems with Multistate Components

In this paper, a new algorithm based on Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) for the analysis of a system with multistate components is proposed. Each state of a multistate component is represented by a Boolean variable, and a multistate system is represented by a series of multistate fault trees. A Boolean algebra with restrictions on variables is used to address the dependence among these Boolean va...