Multiple fault diagnosis is a difficult problem for dynamic systems, and, as a result, most multiple fault diagnosis approaches are restricted to static systems, and most dynamic system diagnosis approaches make the single fault assumption. Within the framework of consistency-based diagnosis, the challenge is to generate conflicts from dynamic signals. For multiple faults, this becomes difficul...

This paper analyzes the causes of corruption in contemporary Bolivia. It argues that, along with the well-documented observation that richer countries tend, on average, to be less corrupt than poorer ones, corruption is directly dependent on FDI inflows, with higher levels of FDI associated with lower levels of corruption and vice versa. Additionally, the findings reveal that a less controlled,...

A decentralized controller that maintains closed loop stability, when the individual controllers fail or are taken out of service, provides fault tolerance and flexibility in operation. Recently, necessary and sufficient conditions [12] for the existence of a block decentralized controller with integral action for a system to possess integrity against controller failures were proposed. In this ...

Fault diagnosis in the presence of noise and model errors is of fundamental importance. In the paper, the meaning of fault isolation performance is formalized by using the established notion of coverage and false coverage from the field of statistics. Then formal relations describing the relationship between fault isolation performance and the residual related design parameters are derived. For...

Connectivity in large-scale data center networks is a critical indicator to evaluate network state. A feasible and performance-guaranteed algorithm enables us find disjoint paths between vertices ensure effective transfer maintain the normal operation of case faulty nodes. As an important network, BCube Connected Crossbars (BCCC) has many excellent properties that have been widely studied. In t...

Recent observations on the dynamics of crack and fault rupture are described, together with related theory and simulations in the framework of continuum elastodynamics. Topics include con gurational instabilities of tensile crack fronts (crack front waves, disordering, sidebranching), the connection between frictional slip laws and modes of rupture propagation in earth faulting, especially cond...