) that achieves the lowest total project cost for a given probability of success while meeting technical performance and …

--albeit imprecise--goal in all these activities is to ''optimize performance,'' which is to have maximal success/profit/return with … itself to the overall performance and affordability. This is not unreasonable, since oftentimes major upgrades on some …

, starting with pre-defined nominal error rates for cognitive vs. action oriented tasks, and incorporating performance shaping … nominal, degraded, and severely degraded human performance for individual PSFs. Additionally, some PSFs feature multipliers to … reflect enhanced performance. Although SPAR-H enjoys widespread use among industry and regulators, current source documents on …

understand all aspects of the underlying science. We review a decision framework used in many fields such as performance …

also allows to quantify their effect in the response/behavior/performance of the system. In such a framework the … performance function(s) of interest are also random and optimization of the system with respect to the design variables has to be … the performance with respect to the uncertain and design variables. The proposed algorithm is directly parallelizable and …

battlespace. Commonly, human reliability analysis has been used to predict failures of human performance in complex, critical …, including acceptance of new technology, upon performance. The cultural parameters used to modify the human reliability analysis …

researchers. In this report, we compared the postrelease performance of natural subyearlings to the postrelease performance of … of postrelease performance (1) detection dates at dams, (2) detections during the implementation of summer spill, (3 … performance was more similar between natural and surrogate subyearlings than between natural and production subyearlings. Further …

parameter estimation for these models. This paper describes an approach in which system performance is simulated by drawing …