Visualizations are a crucial component in CAD systems, typically displaying design layout or physical behavior. In this paper we introduce in an innovative way visualizations, that combine both, the display of physical dimension and abstract concepts. These types of visualizations are part of MAGDA a CAD system for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). In MAGDA we display the geometries of t...

This article is a summary of a review journal article describing some of the recent research into the capacity value of wind power. With the worldwide increase in wind power during the past several years, there is increasing interest and significance regarding its capacity value. This has a direct influence on the amount of other (non-wind) capacity that is needed in future power systems. Recen...

Long duration and complex mission scenarios are characteristics of NASA’s human exploration of Mars, and will provide unprecedented challenges. Systems reliability and safety will become increasingly demanding and management of uncertainty will be increasingly important. NASA’s current pioneering strategy recognizes and relies upon assurance of crew and asset safety. In this regard, flexibility...

This paper deals with the description of a procedure to evaluate reliability of a complex diagnosis system. By a four steps procedure it will be shown how to compute a reliability function associated to the whole system starting from the statistical description of the exogenous faults and from the reliability of the diagnosis subsystems devoted to faults detection. A simple example taken from t...

with the development of restructured power systems and increase of prices in some hours of day and increase fuel price, demand response programs were noticed more by customers. demand response consists of a series of activities that governments or utilities design to change the amount or time of electric energy consumption, to achieve better social welfare or some times for maximizing the benef...

The performance of human resources is affected by various factors such as mental and physical fatigue, skill, and available time in the production systems. Generally, these mentioned factors have effects on human reliability and consequently change the reliability of production systems. Fatigue is a stochastic factor that changes according to other factors such as environmental conditions, work...

with the huge global and wide range of attention placed upon quality, promoting and optimize the reliability of the products during the design process has turned out to be a high priority. in this study, the researcher have adopted one of the existing models in the reliability science and propose a bi-objective model for redundancy allocation in the series-parallel systems in accordance with th...