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The National Academies' Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) is a primary interface between the research enterprise and federal agencies that rely on the mathematical sciences. The Board provides objective and authoritative advice on how best to apply the tools of...
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-term performance of the WIPP. This risk-based Performance Assessment (PA) is accomplished in part through the use of numerous …
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1991 was continued rapid growth for the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as it broadened its interdisciplinary research into the organization, evolution and operation of complex systems and sought deeply the principles underlying their dynamic behavior. Research on complex systems--the focus of work at...
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) that achieves the lowest total project cost for a given probability of success while meeting technical performance and … Monte Carlo simulation tools. The approach is detailed using a realistic but simplified case of a project with two technical …
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secondary data base, meaning that information contained therein is derived entirely from other primary sources. It uses dBase …
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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 …
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Twenty tests for normality were compared for the purpose of detecting mixtures of two normal components with unequal means but equal variance. The purpose of this study was to determine the power of tests specifically designed to detect mixtures, i.e., the likelihood ratio and Engelman-Hartigan...
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This progress report summarizes our research activities under our consensus grant. In year four of the grant, we continued to capitalize on and benefit from historical events which drove our early emphasis on group process studies. Following our work on various procedures for bringing together...
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improved capability and performance rather than vendor lock-in. Some of these standards appear to be gaining traction in the …
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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 …
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