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

residential customer. The simulation program would run on a system of high-performance computers (parallel computer system) that … real-time context, needed to drive the simulation. A World Wide Web server would provide background information about the … simulation for those who chose to participate as actors in one of supported roles. Roles would be based on activities associated …

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 …