This thesis presents contributions within the field of process capability analysis. Process capability analysis deals with how to assess the capability of processes. Based on process capability analysis one can determine how the process performs relative to its product requirements or specifications. An important part within process capability analysis is the use of process capability indices. ...

The development of modern air defense missile systems requires robust simulations to adequately place margins on hardware and software design. Coupled with this is the need to accurately model surface reflections that constitute clutter to the missile system. A thorough understanding of these reflections is becoming increasingly important as the air defense threat evolves from large, high-altit...

Abstract Under the direction of the Principal Investigators and support from the Acquisition Research Program and government and industry partnerships, the Systems Development & Maturity Laboratory (SysDML) at Stevens Institute of Technology has successfully developed, tested, and implemented a system maturity measure (i.e., System Readiness Level) and supporting optimization models for inclusi...

The concept of process capability was proposed in early 1970 with the introduction of ‘capability ratio’ by Juran, a world known quality expert. Thereafter almost 40 years have been passed and many indices such as Cp, Cpk and Cpm were developed for measuring process performance. However, many researchers, for example, Kotz and Johnson [1-2] raised concerns about the application of the diversifi...

We derive upper bounds on the generalization error of a learning algorithm in terms of the mutual information between its input and output. The bounds provide an information-theoretic understanding of generalization in learning problems, and give theoretical guidelines for striking the right balance between data fit and generalization by controlling the input-output mutual information. We propo...

Process capability analysis (PCA) is the ability of a process that measures the degree of providing customer expectations. Generally, the expectations of customer have been defined by using specification limits. A process capability index (PCI) summarizes ability of process to conform specification limits. Generally, this comparison is made by analyzing ratio of specification limits and six-sig...

There are practical situations in which the quality of a process or product can be better characterized by a functional relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables, which is called profile. Such profiles frequently can be represented adequately using linear or nonlinear models. While there are several studies in monitoring profiles, there are few studies to ev...

WiMAX and LTE are the telecommunication technology standards. WiMAX and LTE both offer high data rate. Both are used to provide VOIP, online gaming, video conferencing, streaming media services to the users. In this paper we have done numerical analysis of WiMAX and LTE network in the form of maximum number of users supportable and minimum demand to all the users in a particular area based on d...