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Maintenance-oriented selection of software components

Eighth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2004. CSMR 2004. Proceedings., 2004
Component-based software engineering is a new, promising, and rapidly growing discipline in both academia and industry. However, maintaining component-based systems (CBSs) introduces new issues: the choice of the components requires identifying a set of parameters that characterize them, in order to select the appropriate ones for a specific software ...
Pasquale Ardimento, Alessandro Bianchi, Giuseppe Visaggio   +2 more
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Sexual selection and the maintenance of sex

Nature, 2001
Sex is expensive. A population of females that reproduce asexually should prima facie have twice the growth rate of an otherwise equivalent anisogamous sexual population lacking paternal care, or a population with modes of paternal care that can be co-opted by parthenogenetic females.
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Risk Assessment Tool for Maintenance Selection

2006 International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems, 2006
Selecting maintenance policy is important for efficient operation of contemporary complex computer systems, when not only reliability, but also financial factors must be taken into consideration. This work presents an approach which is based on the concept of a life curve and discounted cost used to study the effect of equipment aging under different ...
George J. Anders, Jaroslaw Sugier
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Maintenance strategy selection and its impact in maintenance function

International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2015
Purpose– This paper aims to synthesize and categorize the published literatures related to maintenance strategies formulation, selection and implementation in various industries. The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework based on literature review for formulation of maintenance strategies, selection and the implementation of ...
R S Velmurugan, Tarun Dhingra
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Establishing Maintenance Resource Levels Using Selective Maintenance

The Engineering Economist, 2006
We address the performance of a repairable system that is required to perform a sequence of equally spaced, identical missions with breaks between missions. The system is series-parallel in structure, and component repair can only be performed during breaks between missions.
Ilyas Mohammed Iyoob, C. Richard Cassady, Edward A. Pohl   +2 more
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Model for the Selection of Predictive Maintenance Techniques

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 2007
Abstract A Predictive Maintenance Program can provide significant benefits to industrial plants in the areas of security, quality and availability. However, Predictive Maintenance Programs have lacked analysis in matters related to their set up, management and control.
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Selective Maintenance under Uncertainty

PHM Society Asia-Pacific Conference, 2017
In this paper, a new multi-objective robust selective maintenance model is formulated by considering the uncertainties produced by imperfect inspections. The resulting optimization problem aims at maximizing the expectation of the probability of a repaired system completing a mission and simultaneously minimizing its variance.
Yu Liu, Tao Jiang
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Selection and Maintenance of the Aim

1997
The simple fact is that few conscious actions are taken without a specific purpose. If one raises a hand it may be in greeting, in salute, or perhaps to shade one’s eyes. Almost always there is a purpose. To go to war — a war in which countless lives will be lost and on which may depend the future of a nation, or the freedom and lifestyle of its people
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Sexual selection and the maintenance of sexual reproduction

Nature, 2001
The maintenance of sexual reproduction is a problem in evolutionary theory because, all else being equal, asexual populations have a twofold fitness advantage over their sexual counterparts and should rapidly outnumber a sexual population because every individual has the potential to reproduce.
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An Exact Method for Solving Selective Maintenance Problems Considering Imperfect Maintenance

2016 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2016
In the past few decades, analytical models for maintenance optimization have been extensively investigated. As research continues, the cases considered during the mathematical modeling are much more practical, as well as complex, which brings many difficulties for solution. In this paper, we present an exact method for solving the selective maintenance
Wenbin Cao, Wenyuan Song, Qiwei Hu, Yinxia Du   +3 more
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