The following individuals read and discussed the dissertation submitted by student Robin David Winslow, and they evaluated his presentation and response to questions during the final oral examination. They found that the student passed the final oral examination. iv DEDICATION I dedicate this dissertation to my wife Kathy who supported and encouraged me through another one of my foolish endeavo...

In this chapter, we review the sequence of events that resulted in the negotiated contractor work package and the subsequent string of contract modifications (see also Appendix A). It all began with a budget total established by the Navy in 1992. This was modified over the remainder of the decade in annual Navy budgets. The Navy, meanwhile, planned the work to be undertaken in the RCOH. NNS sub...

A case-based method is important activity for variety system modeling in system architecture. The project planning management method and work breakdown structure is a reason why cost is wasted and a number of project planning is failed. It is necessary to develop a structure of work breakdown structure identification and output selection along to project's planning specificity in project planni...

Closed expressions are derived for the pseudo-norm, norm and orthogonality relations for arbitrary bound states of the PT symmetric and the Hermitian Scarf II potential for the first time. The pseudo-norm is found to have indefinite sign in general. Some aspects of the spontaneous breakdown of PT symmetry are analysed.

T construction of a probabilistic model is a key step in most decision and risk analyses. Typically this is done by defining a single joint distribution in terms of marginal and conditional distributions. The difficulty of this approach is that often the joint distribution is underspecified. For example, we may lack knowledge of the marginal distributions or the underlying dependence structure....

Within the EU FP6 Integrated Project WINNER, adaptive transmission is investigated as a key technology for boosting the spectral efficiency of a new radio interface for 4G systems. Adaptive allocation of timefrequency bins in an OFDM-based system offers a significant potential, but also poses challenges. Within work package 2 of WINNER, we study critical issues such as the feasibility of adapti...