secondary data base, meaning that information contained therein is derived entirely from other primary sources. It uses dBase …

simulation was used to develop the system survivability distribution from the component distributions using a system model that … applied by computer simulation; and (3) neither test data nor adequate knowledge of the physics are known, in which case, one … performance of this communications network is developed, as well as the survivability distributions for the nodes and links based …

also allows to quantify their effect in the response/behavior/performance of the system. In such a framework the … performance function(s) of interest are also random and optimization of the system with respect to the design variables has to be … the performance with respect to the uncertain and design variables. The proposed algorithm is directly parallelizable and …

reviews performance measures appropriate for the assessment of NDA uncertainty, describes characteristics of nuclear waste …

readily estimated using traditional production-cost simulation techniques, which compare the cost of centralized dispatch … crafting more comprehensive assessments of these impacts based on actual performance, including impacts on reliability …