The nature of electro-optical equipment in various industries and the pursuit of the goal of reducing costs demand high reliability on the part of electro-optical systems. In this respect, reliability improvement could be addressed through a reliability allocation problem. Subsystem reliability must be increased such that the requirements as well as defined requisite functions are ensured in ac...

Abstmct4rganiz&ion has emerged as a key concept for structuring the activities of collections of problem-solvers. Orgunization self-design (OSD) has been studied as an adaptive approach to long term, strategic work-allocation and load-balancing. In this paper, we introduce two new reorganization primitives, conposition and decomposition. They change the population of agents and the distribution...

Increasing global competition and the resulting cost pressures call for premium-quality products and highly effective manufacturing processes. Moreover, in the face of short product life cycles and customers’ demand for variety, markets demand flexible adaptation to changing conditions. In order to stay competitive, it is crucial for companies in high-wage countries to anticipate customer-speci...