Network reliability : measures and evaluation / / Sanjay K. Chaturvedi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818081103321
• Autore: Chaturvedi Sanjay K.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Salem, Massachusetts : , : Scrivener Publishing; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-119-22401-2; 1-119-22400-4
• Edizione: [First edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Collana: Performability Engineering Series.; THEi Wiley ebooks.
• Disciplina: 004.6
• Soggetti: Computer networks - Reliability; Computer networks - Mathematical models
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Engineering theory and applications, we think and operate in terms of logics and models with some acceptable and reasonable assumptions. The present text is aimed at providing modelling and analysis techniques for the evaluation of reliability measures (2-terminal, all-terminal, k-terminal reliability) for systems whose structure can be described in the form of a probabilistic graph. Among the several approaches of network reliability evaluation, the multiple-variable-inversion sum-of-disjoint product approach finds a well-deserved niche as it provides the reliability or unreliability expression in a most efficient and compact manner. However, it does require an efficiently enumerated minimal inputs (minimal path, spanning tree, minimal k-trees, minimal cut, minimal global-cut, minimal k-cut) depending on the desired reliability. The present book covers these two aspects in detail through the descriptions of several algorithms devised by the ‘reliability fraternity’ and explained through solved examples to obtain and evaluate 2-terminal, k-terminal and all-terminal network reliability/unreliability measures and could be its USP. The accompanying web-based supplementary information containing ; modifiable Matlab® source code for the algorithms is another feature of this book. A very concerted effort has been made to keep the book ideally suitable for first course or even for a novice stepping into the area of network reliability. The mathematical treatment is kept as minimal as possible with an assumption on the readers’ side that they have basic knowledge in graph theory, probabilities laws, Boolean laws and set theory.

Disillusionment : Dialogue of Lacks / / David Gutmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969437603321
• Autore: Gutmann David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2005; London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2018
• ISBN: 0-429-91281-1; 0-429-89858-4; 0-429-47381-8; 1-283-24897-2; 9786613248978; 1-84940-436-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (95 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GutmannDavid <1950->; MillatJean-François
• Disciplina: 155.2/4
• Soggetti: Illusion (Philosophy); Social sciences and psychoanalysis; Management - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORDS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; PART TWO; POSTSCRIPT
• Sommario/riassunto: "This current volume by successful consultants to leading organizations and institutions combines two of their recent papers. The first paper, 'Disillusionment', looks at the phenomenon of illusion and disillusion in ; organizations. The authors believe that illusions construct us, as opposed to the commonly-held view that we create them. This is the main hypothesis in the book, which is examined with the help of examples from personal and institutional points of view. The authors claim we can learn to recognize our own illusions and learn from them, and this is the process they call 'disillusionment'. Dialogue of Lacks follows on from the first paper and further elaborates on the process that is disillusionment and discusses "lack of dialogue".'The trudging that each of us is engaged in - over a shorter or longer distance - whilst grappling with our own illusions is a fundamental journey, intimate and unique, passing through our own construction and touching on the very essence of our life. It is not only about knowing whether we are being manipulated, nor just how far these illusions can obscure our judgement, our rational and reasonable mind. Our freedom is at stake. It is about understanding where the boundary lies between survival (and its frantic analogue all too frequent these days that we refer to as "hyperlife") and a life of desire and creation. Our intention here is to formulate a starting hypothesis and to begin to unfold it in order to discover its consequences. It is based on our experience as advisers in leadership which invites us to work regularly with this kind of questions with leaders of organisations. Illusion is indeed as much an individual issue as it is a collective and institutional one.'- From the Introduction"--Provided by publisher.