The main focus of this thesis is to introduce new techniques that offer trade-offs between schedulability (ability of the system to accept more tasks) and reliability (ability of the system to tolerate more faults) in real-time systems. Different techniques have been introduced …
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This book gathers select contributions from the 32nd International Congress and Exhibition on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM 2019), held at the University of Huddersfield, UK in September 2019, and jointly organized by the University of Hudde…
This book gathers select contributions from the 32nd International Congress and Exhibition on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM 2019), held at the University of Huddersfield, UK in September 2019, and jointly organized by the University of Hudde…
This open access book describes and reviews the development of the quality control mechanisms and methodologies associated with IEA's extensive program of educational research. A group of renowned international researchers, directly involved in the design and execution of IEA's …
This thesis adds to the design of new announcement schemes in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). An announcement scheme allows vehicles to broadcast information about their surrounding to other vehicles in their proximity. This enables neighbouring vehicles to be aware of their…
The focus of this thesis is to develop a generic approach for solving reliability design optimisation problems which could be applicable to a diverse range of real engineering systems. The basic problem in optimal reliability design of a system is to explore the means of improvi…
In 1996, a concept was proposed by the UK Ministry of Defence with the intention of making the field of reliability more useful to the end user, particularly within the field of military aerospace. This idea was the Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP), a duration of time in…
The scaling trends in CMOS technology and operating conditions give rise to serious degradation mechanisms such as Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) in MOSFETs, threatening the circuit and product lifetimes. The aging phenomena, on top …
Financial challenges facing the automotive sector require identification of new opportunities for quality improvement. A new Design-To Life-Cycle-Cost strategy is introduced that applies a unique "Binary Decision Logic Model " that classifies corrective action opportunity into L…
The objective of the research is to model the impact of physical design characteristics on backend dielectric reliability. Backend dielectric breakdown is a concern for a number of reasons. The impact of process on backend dielectric reliability is significant, and well modeled,…
Software development and evaluation is the most difficult task in software engineering. The future of the software industry depends upon the development of software. For this purpose quality is considered essential step in designing software. Quality of software is dependable up…
Quilt Packaging (QP) is a novel, high-speed, direct interchip interconnection technology invented and developed at The University of Notre Dame. Quilt Packaging uses conducting structures, called "nodules," that protrude from the thin, vertical faces of a chip, connecting to mat…
Degradation of the solar cell over the time under different mechanical and loading during the manufacturing or use is one of the most common problems in the solar industry. One of the major reasons for this degradation is the cracks and/or film damage of one of the conductive la…
Wireless Sensor networks (WSN) have gained attention in both industry and academia due to their versatile fields of application. One of the main characteristics of a sensor node is its limited energy supply. The network needs to be reliable in the sense that it can deliver the d…
Cloud computing offers the advantage of on-demand, reliable and cost efficient computing solutions without the capital investment and management resources to build and maintain in-house data centers and network infrastructures. Scalability of cloud solutions enable consumers to …
Decreasing power consumption in small devices such as handhelds, cell phones and high-performance processors is now one of the most critical design concerns. On-chip cache memories dominate the chip area in microprocessors and thus arises the need for power efficient cache memor…
Personality assessments have been valued tools assisting human resources managers to reduce recruiting mistakes. Most personality assessments have been blind to the differences of age, gender, and culture. To determine the effect of these variables on personality dimensions, a n…
For many high end microelectronics products, the long-term service life may be limited by thermal mismatch induced fatigue, a factor generally assessed by accelerated thermal cycling and extrapolation of the test results to service conditions. The sensitivities of common Lead- f…
Objectives: This study investigated the inter-rater reliability of three structural end-range lumbar segmental instability tests with the highest positive Likelihood Ratio against flexion-extension radiographs, and three functional mid-range clinical tests that predict the succe…