this paper proposes an efficient algorithm based on memetic algorithm (ma) for a redundancy allocation problem without component mixing (rapcm) in a series-parallel system when the redundancy strategy can be chosen for individual subsystems. majority of the solution methods for the general rapcm assume that the type of a redundancy strategy for each subsystem is pre-determined and known a prior...

We have recently considered decomposing a system of nonlinear equations by defining new variables corresponding to the intermediate results in the evaluation process. In that previous work, we applied both a derivative-free component solution process and an interval Gauss–Seidel method to the large, sparse system of equations so obtained. An analysis of the component solution process indicates ...

In this paper we study cooperative games with limited cooperation possibilities, represented by an undirected cycle-free communication graph. Players in the game can cooperate if and only if they are connected in the graph. We introduce a new single-valued solution concept, the average tree solution. Our solution is characterized by component efficiency and component fairness. The interpretatio...

1. Tetraethylammonium (TEA) augmented the amplitude of the later phase of the post-tetanic hyperpolarization (PTH) in bullfrog sympathetic ganglion cells. The present report deals with the mechanism underlying the later phase (the late slow component )of PTH. 2. The late slow component persisted in the presence of ouabain, suggesting that it was not associated with the activation of the Na pump...

We introduce an efficient solution for games with communication graph structures and show that it is characterized by efficiency, fairness and a new axiom called component balancedness. This latter axiom compares for every component in the communication graph the total payoff to the players of this component in the game itself to the total payoff of these players when applying the solution to t...

The COmputational MODule Integrator (COMODI) [1] is an initiative aiming at a component based framework, component developer tool and component repository for scientific computing. We identify the main ingredients to a solution that would be sufficiently appealing to scientists and engineers to consider alternatives to their deeply rooted programming traditions. The overall structure of the com...