Functional Products, consisting of hardware and service support systemsowned by the supplier, are sold to customers with a guaranteed availability ofthe function. The availability achieved is dependent on the reliability of bothhardware and the service support system. The reliability of the latter can bedefined as its ability to provide the required maintenance services in a tim...

the aim of this paper is to present a new numerical method for solving the bagley-torvik equation. this equation has an important role in fractional calculus. the fractional derivatives are described based on the caputo sense. some properties of the sinc functions required for our subsequentdevelopment are given and are utilized to reduce the computation of solution of the bagley-torvik equatio...

a novel and eective method based on haar wavelets and block pulse functions(bpfs) is proposed to solve nonlinear fredholm integro-dierential equations of fractional order.the operational matrix of haar wavelets via bpfs is derived and together with haar waveletoperational matrix of fractional integration are used to transform the mentioned equation to asystem of algebraic equations. our new m...

this paper presents an approach for solving a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (nsdes) using a new basis functions (nbfs). these functions and their operational matrices areused for representing matrix form of the nbfs. with using this method in combination with the collocation method, the nsdes are reduced a stochastic nonlinear system of equations and unknowns. then, the error anal...

hybrid of rationalized haar functions are developed to approximate the solution of the differential equations. the properties of hybrid functions which are the combinations of block-pulse functions and rationalized haar functions are first presented. these properties together with the newton-cotes nodes are then utilized to reduce the differential equations to the solution of algebraic equation...

in this paper we introduce a type of fractional-order polynomials basedon the classical chebyshev polynomials of the second kind (fcss). also we construct the operationalmatrix of fractional derivative of order $ gamma $ in the caputo for fcss and show that this matrix with the tau method are utilized to reduce the solution of some fractional-order differential equations.

‎A numerical technique based on the collocation method using Legendre multiwavelets are‎ ‎presented for the solution of forced Duffing equation‎. ‎The operational matrix of integration for ‎Legendre multiwavelets is presented and is utilized to reduce the solution of Duffing equation‎ ‎to the solution of linear algebraic equations‎. ‎Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate‎ ‎the valid...

Accurate prediction of release times, reliability and availability of a software product requires the formulation of a reliability model which captures in a quantitative manner critical elements of the software testing process such as: (i) test coverage and (ii) the eeect of operational prooles. This paper presents a Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process(NHPP) based model which accounts explicitly fo...

alternative legendre polynomials (alps) are used to approximate the solution of a class of nonlinear volterra-hammerstein integral equations. for this purpose, the operational matrices of integration and the product for alps are derived. then, using the collocation method, the considered problem is reduced into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations. the error analysis of the method is given an...