without costly upgrades. Of course these gains must be achieved without impacting operational performance. Downsizing is also … a context-dependent model that provides a capability to anticipate impending failures and determine machine performance … over a protracted period of time. This prognostic capability links operational requirements to an economic performance …

This paper presents an approach for treating uncertainty in the performance assessment process to efficiently address … regulatory performance objectives for radioactive waste disposal and discusses the application of the approach at the Greater … Confinement Disposal site. In this approach, the performance assessment methodology uses probabilistic risk assessment concepts to …

Implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) has provided a unique challenge for Federal … Agencies, such as the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Waste Management (OWM). While performance measurement, as required … operations for some time. There has been significant discussion about how the private sector uses performance measures, but there …

In the energy arena, the greatest data needs concern the costs and performance of demand-side management (DSM) programs …

are predicated to varying degrees on the reliable and correct performance of this software. Consequently, software quality …

review of the specific technology cost and performance assumptions they made, primarily for wind power. We then turn to the …

concerning countermeasure and mitigation options. Fully-coupled high performance calculations of structural response to ideal and …

energy performance. As a result, the industry has been forced to consider alternative incentive structures, particularly ones … that pay based on long-term measured performance. The industry, however, lacks consensus in the debate over the tradeoffs …

managers). The performance of alternative designs and courses of action must be assessed with respect to multiple performance … available that address specific performance issues during various stages of a building's life cycle. Some of these tools support … collaboration by providing means for synchronous and asynchronous communications, performance simulations, and monitoring of a …