The maximum likelihood approach to jointly model the survival time and its longitudinal covariates has been successful to model both processes in longitudinal studies. Random effects in the longitudinal process are often used to model the survival times through a proportional hazards model, and this invokes an EM algorithm to search for the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs). Several intriguin...

This paper presents a new composite index to analyze power system transient stability. Contingency ranking in power system transient stability is a complicated and time consuming task. To prevail over this difficulty, various indices are used. These indices are based on the concept of coherency, transient energy conversion between kinetic and potential energy and three dot products of the s...

Power system security is one of the major concerns in competitive electricity markets driven by trade demands and regulations. If the system is found to be insecure, timely corrective measures need to be taken to prevent system collapse. This paper presents an approach based on a counterpropagation neural network (CPNN) to identify and rank the contingencies expected to reduce or eliminate the ...

The work of adhesion of bimaterial interfaces is commonly computed using quantum mechanical methods in which the two materials are strained into coherency. There is no relaxation of the coherency by the formation of an array of interfacial misfit dislocations, contrary to what is commonly observed for essentially all systems other than very thin films. In this paper, we investigate the errors i...

In Electronic Commerce applications such as stock trading, there is a need to consult sources available on the web for informed decision making. Because information such as stock prices keep changing, the web sources must be queried continually to maintain temporal coherency of the collected data, thereby avoiding decisions based on stale information. However, because network infrastructure has...

The performance of shared memory applications on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) depends to a great part on the existence of efficient synchronization mechanisms and relaxed consistency models with a small management overhead. Using some of the core features of SCI, remote memory access and atomic transactions, highly efficient solutions for these areas have been developed and implemented withi...

In this paper, we consider techniques for disseminating dynamic data—such as stock prices and real-time weather information—from sources to a set of repositories. We focus on the problem of maintaining coherency of dynamic data items in a network of cooperating repositories. We show that cooperation among repositories— where each repository pushes updates of data items to other repositories—hel...

Acquisition design plays a very significant role in seismic exploration and data processing. An optimized seismic acquisition design will require less resources and therefore, it can reduce the total cost of seismic exploration. Nevertheless, finding the optimal locations of sources and receivers in a seismic survey is a long-standing problem which has received less attraction in last few decad...