paper analyzes three main issues related to smart grids: reliability, demand response and cost recovery of investments. In … utilities for providing smart grids, and the reliability pertinent to smart grids is a kind of public good. …

reliability on the top of that strengthens the problem more. This paper which is entirely an extension of the authors' previous … the form of multicast groups. Thus, the proposed Multicast Route Reliability (MRR) is a purely a probabilistic function of …

. Estimating the reliability and the time to failure of such devices will be of great value. Weibull distribution has been widely … used to assess the reliability of many systems. In this article, the three parameter Weibull distribution and Cuckoo search … algorithm are combined to optimize the reliability and the maintenance cost of a RIAD 60 storage system. The numerical results …

such analytics is increasingly demanded within the context of mission-critical applications, security and reliability in … with the name of Hadoop. They illustrate the security and reliability concerns in the context of a large-scale data … processing infrastructure. They review the available solutions, and their limitations to support security and reliability within …

Industrial systems require reliable components. The interactions among components affect the system reliability. In … parameters. Reliability represents a state indicator. In this work, highlights are made on the importance of Maintenance in … Reliability and especially in a southern regions conditions where temperatures can simply, reach high values. First, a model is …

-objective reconfiguration problem of minimizing active power loss and improving power system reliability. The proposed evolutionary method is …