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Expert Elicitation for Reliable System Design
This paper reviews the role of expert judgement to support reliability
assessments within the systems engineering design process. Generic design
processes are described to give the context and a discussion is given about the
nature of the reliability assessments required in the different systems
engineering phases. It is argued that, as far as meeting reliability
requirements is concerned, the whole design process is more akin to a
statistical control process than to a straightforward statistical problem of
assessing an unknown distribution. This leads to features of the expert
judgement problem in the design context which are substantially different from
those seen, for example, in risk assessment. In particular, the role of experts
in problem structuring and in developing failure mitigation options is much
more prominent, and there is a need to take into account the reliability
potential for future mitigation measures downstream in the system life cycle.
An overview is given of the stakeholders typically involved in large scale
systems engineering design projects, and this is used to argue the need for
methods that expose potential judgemental biases in order to generate analyses
that can be said to provide rational consensus about uncertainties. Finally, a
number of key points are developed with the aim of moving toward a framework
that provides a holistic method for tracking reliability assessment through the
design process.Comment: This paper commented in: [arXiv:0708.0285], [arXiv:0708.0287],
[arXiv:0708.0288]. Rejoinder in [arXiv:0708.0293]. Published at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/088342306000000510 in the Statistical Science
(http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(http://www.imstat.org
A Detailed Monte-Carlo Simulation for the Belle TOF System
We have developed a detailed Monte Carlo simulation program for the Belle TOF
system. Based on GEANT simulation, it takes account of all physics processes in
the TOF scintillation counters and readout electronics. The simulation
reproduces very well the performance of the Belle TOF system, including the
dE/dx response, the time walk effect, the time resolution, and the hit
efficiency due to beam background. In this report, we will describe the Belle
TOF simulation program in detail.Comment: To be submitted to NI
Applications of statistical methods and techniques to auditing and accounting
Statistical Methods;Auditing;accounting/ accountancy
Statistical modelling of software reliability
During the six-month period from 1 April 1991 to 30 September 1991 the following research papers in statistical modeling of software reliability appeared: (1) A Nonparametric Software Reliability Growth Model; (2) On the Use and the Performance of Software Reliability Growth Models; (3) Research and Development Issues in Software Reliability Engineering; (4) Special Issues on Software; and (5) Software Reliability and Safety
Application of neutrosophic Poisson probability distribution series for certain subclass of analytic univalent function
Necessary and sufficient conditions for neutrosophic Poisson probability distribution series to be in the classes Mnγ (θ) were derived by means of coefficient inequalities. The results obtained further strengthening the relationships between geometric function theory and statistics and by extension, fuzzy logic.Publisher's Versio
An exploratory study on the emergence of management control systems: formalizing human resources in small growing firms
The adoption of management control systems (MCS) is a key element in managing the tension that growth imposes
on young growing firms. Despite its importance to a large number of organizations, only recently has the empirical
literature devoted attention to the evolution of these systems over the lifecycle of firms [Moores and Yuen, Account.
Organizat. Soc. 26 (2001) 351]. This paper builds upon existing management control theory, mostly focused on
established organizations, and existing predictions based on extended field observations to explore how these systems
are adopted within growing firms. To advance theory, the paper also draws from the entrepreneurship and life cycle
literatures. It identifies several variables as drivers of the emergence of management control systems including the size of
the organization, its age, the replacement of the founder as CEO, and the existence of outside investors. The empirical
evidence, from a database on the adoption of human resource management systems, is consistent with these variables
being associated with the adoption of MCS. The paper also provides initial results on how the emergence of various
types of management control systems depends on which systems the organization has already adopted.
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Accident Analysis and Prevention: Course Notes 1987/88
This report consists of the notes from a series of lectures given by the authors for a course entitled Accident Analysis and Prevention. The course took place during the second term of a one year Masters degree course in Transport Planning and Engineering run by the Institute for Transport Studies and the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds. The course consisted of 18 lectures of which 16 are reported on in this document (the remaining two, on Human Factors, are not reported on in this document as no notes were provided). Each lecture represents one chapter of this document, except in two instances where two lectures are covered in one chapter (Chapters 10 and 14). The course first took place in 1988, and at the date of publication has been run for a second time. This report contains the notes for the initial version of the course. A number of changes were made in the content and emphasis of the course during its second run, mainly due to a change of personnel, with different ideas and experiences in the field of accident analysis and prevention. It is likely that each time the course is run, there will be significant changes, but that the notes provided in this document can be considered to contain a number of the core elements of any future version of the course
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