reliability of a system is the probability that it will function as intended for the required period of time. the opposite of reliability is failure probability per unit time or over time, such as a life cycle. following a review of existing reliability codes and approaches, comprehensive approaches to assess the reliability of offshore structures are described, including probabilistic analysis...

the risks of fire and explosion in oil and gas industry need to be managed. the objectives of the present study were to assess the risk of fire and explosion in iso-max unit of tehran oil refinery using dow’s fire and explosion index and to study the influences of the controlling methods. the latest version of dow fire and explosion index guideline was applied to calculate the fire and explosio...

MARK C. PAULK Software Engineering Institute he Capability Maturity Model T Model for Software, developed by the Software Engineering Institute, and the ISO 9000 series of standards, developed by the International Organization for Standardization, have the common concern of quality and process management. The two are driven by similar issues and are intuitively correlated, but they differ in th...

In this paper, we describe the LIA system proposed for the MediaEval 2013 Crowdsourcing for Social Multimedia task. The aim is to associate an accurate label to an image among multiple noisy labels collected from a crowdsourcing platform. In particular, the task participants have to predict two types of binary labels for each considered image. The first one mentions that an image is truly fashi...

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This paper describes our participation in the Entity List Completion (ELC) task at Entity track 2011. Our approach combined the work done for the Related Entity Finding 2010 task with some new criteria as the proximity or the similarity between a candidate answer with the correct answers given as examples or their cooccurrences.

Compliance with the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has been hampered by the lack of implementation details. This article argues that IT departments that have implemented ten categories of IT controls provided by the International Standards Organization (ISO 17799) will be well on their way toward SOX compliance. A side-by-side comparison of the 124 control components of the ISO Standard and t...