Abstract The major drawback of wind energy relies in its variability in time, which necessitates specific strategies to be settled. One such strategy can be the coordination of wind power production with a co-located power generation of dispatchable energy source (DES), e.g., thermal power...

Abstract In this paper we advance a nonlinear optimization problem for hedging wind power variability by using a dispatchable energy source (DES) like gas. The model considers several important aspects such as modeling of wind power production, electricity price, nonlinear penalization scheme...

In this work, the authors propose a novel method called online variable kernel estimation of the probability density function (pdf). This new online estimator combines the characteristics and properties of two estimators namely nearest neighbors estimator and the Parzen-Rosenblatt estimator....

This article describes how in this digital age, storage devices have been permitting the design of systems with the capacity to handle massive amount of diverse types of data. Real-time storage devices have been using complex architectures to accommodate the exponential increase of generated...

Abstract The estimation of stress-strength reliability in a time-dependent context deals with either the stress or strength or both dynamic. The repeated occurrence of stress in random intervals of time induces a change in the distribution of strength over time. In this paper, we study the...

Abstract The process capability index (PCI), denoted by 𝐼, is a well-known characteristic in quality control analysis. Using Gini’s mean difference, we construct a new PCI, I_{G} say, assuming the two-parameter Weibull distribution (WD). In order to estimate the proposed I_{G} when the...

We consider forecasting and prequential (predictive sequential) validation of meta-elliptical distributions with time varying parameters. Using the weak prequential principle of Dawid, we conduct model validation avoiding nuisance parameter problems. Results rely on the structure of...

Abstract One of the important issues is risk assessment and calculation in complex and multi-component systems. In this paper, the estimation of multi-component stress-strength reliability for the Weibull distribution under the progressive Type-II censored samples is studied. We assume that both...

Purpose – The traditional maintenance scheduling strategies of multi-component systems may result in maintenance shortage or overage, while system degradation information is often ignored. The purpose of this paper is to propose a multi-phase model that better integrates degradation...

Purpose – To a customer, higher quality is synonymous to higher expected life. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to determine the existing life of the competing brands in a product field and suggest an improvement plan, under cost constraints, so that all the brands can be placed on a...