Biodiversity plays an integral role in the livelihoods of subsistence-based forest-dwelling communities and as a consequence it is increasingly important to develop quantitative approaches that capture not only changes in taxonomic diversity, but also variation in natural resources and provisioning services. We apply a functional diversity metric originally developed for addressing questions in...

The convergence of classical PSTN and IP networks requires the transport of SS7 signaling over IP. Since SS7 has very strict availability requirements for the signaling components, redundancy is mandatory. The goal of the IETF RSerPool working group is to define a lightweight, flexible and real-time redundancy concept to fulfill the availability requirements of SS7: Reliable Server Pooling (RSe...

A redundancy allocation problem (RAP) is a well-known NP-hard problem that involves the selection of elements and redundancy levels to maximize the system reliability under various system-level constraints. In many practical design situations, reliability apportionment is complicated because of the presence of several conflicting objectives that cannot be combined into a single-objective functi...

In this paper we discuss the application of our recently developed nonlinear analytical redundancy (NLAR) fault detection technique to a two-degree of freedom robot manipulator. NLAR extends the traditional linear AR technique to derive the maximum possible number of fault detection tests into the continuous nonlinear domain. The ability to handle nonlinear systems vastly expands the accuracy a...

Clinical investigations yield huge amount of experimental data which need appropriate processing. High degree of their variability decreases quality of prognostic and classification results. Frequently problem of strong redundancy of variables incorporated into model occurs, produces computational instabilities and in multifactorial models makes the appropriate interpretation of obtained result...