Showing papers on "Intra-rater reliability published in 1986"

Reliability Analysis in Distributed Systems.

Abstract: Reliability of a distributed processing system is an important design parameter that can be described in terms of the reliability of processing elements and communication links and also of the redundancy of programs and data files. The traditional terminal-pair reliability does not capture the redundancy of programs and files in a distributed system. Two reliability measures are introduced: distributed program reliability, which describes the probability of successful execution of a program requiring cooperation of several computers, and distributed system reliability, which is the probability that all the specified distributed programs for the system are operational. These two reliability measures can be extended to incorporate the effects of user sites on reliability. An efficient approach based on graph traversal is developed to evaluate the proposed reliability measures. >

Computer-aided reliability estimation

Abstract: CARE III (Computer-Aided Reliability Estimation, Third Generation) helps estimate reliability of complex, redundant, fault-tolerant systems. Program specifically designed for evaluation of fault-tolerant avionics systems. However, CARE III general enough for use in evaluation of other systems as well.

Reliability of self-reported data.

Abstract: treatment of gestational diabetes have been encouraging in small series but have documented neonatal hypoglycemia ascribed to delayed clearance of the oral hypoglycemic agent and the effect on fetal peripheral glucose utilization. The sulfonylurea agent used in our study has a much shorter plasma half-life than agents used in previous studies. In view of the economics and logistics of tablet therapy as opposed to multiple insulin injections, the use of oral agents in gestational diabetes may warrant further study when dietary strategies do not eliminate maternal hyperglycemia.

Quantitative Reliability Evaluation ofRepairable Phased-Mission Systems UsingMarkovApproach

Abstract: A quantitative reliability model for a phased mission system is developed using a Markov process. Two cases for the mission-phase change times are assumed: 1) to be known in advance and 2) to be random variables. A method of solution is presented and illustrated by examples. The solution of phased-mission systems is equivalent to solving a sequence of uni-phase systems with appropriate initial conditions.

A Reliability Simulation Language for Reliability Analysis

Abstract: Much attention is being directed towards the development of reliability assessment tools. Common to all techniques is the requirement for a systematic description of the reliability problem.

Enhancing System Reliability by Improving Component Reliability

Abstract: The reliability of systems can be increased by using redundancy and/or self—testing systems. However, given a certain structure of the system,its reliability and availability can also be improved considerably by increasing the reliability of its individual components. The following measures lead to an increase of the reliability of electronic ccmponents: controlled environment derating and safety margins qualification of the ccmponents for the proposed environment detained incoming inspection burn—in and other screening measures The efficiency of these measures is discussed and practical examples are given.