With the evolution of technology, the maintenance of sophisticated systems is of concern for system engineers and system designers. The maintenance cost of the system depends in general on the replacement and repair policies. The system replacement may be in a strictly periodic fashion or on a random basis depending upon the maintenance policy. At failure, the repair of the system may be perfor...

This paper gives a theoretical and empirical analysis of the time complexity of genetic algorithms (GAs) on problems with exponentially scaled building blocks. It is important to study GA performance on this type of problems because one of the difficulties that GAs are generally faced with is due to the low scaling or low salience of some building blocks. The paper is an extension of the model ...

We consider n observations from the GARCH-type model: S = σ2Z, where σ2 and Z are independent random variables. We develop a new wavelet linear estimator of the unknown density of σ2 under four different dependence structures: the strong mixing case, the β- mixing case, the pairwise positive quadrant case and the ρ-mixing case. Its asymptotic mean integrated squared error properties are ...

A numerical model for simulating Residence Time Distribution (RTD) of turbulent flows in helical static mixers is proposed and developed to improve the understanding of static mixers. The results of this model is presented in terms of different volumetric flow rate to illustrate the complicated flow patterns that drive the mixing process i...