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Copetti, Thiago (author), Cardoso Medeiros, G. (author), Taouil, M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Poehls, Leticia Bolzani (author), Balen, Tiago (author)Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) technology enables the continuous downscaling of Integrated Circuits (ICs), using the Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology in accordance with the More Moore domain. Despite demonstrating improvements on short channel effect and overcoming the growing leakage problem of planar CMOS...journal article 2021
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van Driel, W.D. (author), Bikker, J.W. (author), Tijink, M. (author)It is known that quantitative measures for the reliability of software systems can be derived from software reliability models. And, as such, support the product development process. Over the past four decades, research activities in this area have been performed. As a result, many software reliability models have been proposed. It was shown...journal article 2021
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Leffler, David (author), Burghout, Wilco (author), Jenelius, Erik (author), Cats, O. (author)The paper develops a simulation model and evaluates fixed versus on-demand operational designs of a station-based automated feeder service. The evaluation considers the operational cost and average passenger level-of-service trade-offs as well as distributional differences in waiting times. Two case studies are used to evaluate such trade...journal article 2021
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Iannarelli, A. (author), Ghaffarian Niasar, M. (author), Ross, Robert (author)Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a class of electrostatic actuators that have promising applications in fields like sensors, soft-robotics, microfluidics, and energy harvesting. The crucial points in the working principle of DEA are the application of high electric field and the use of compliant electrodes. These electrodes are...journal article 2020
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Teixeira, Rui (author), Nogal Macho, M. (author), O'Connor, Alan (author), Martinez-Pastor, Beatriz (author)Reliability assessment with adaptive Kriging has gained notoriety due to the Kriging capability of accurately replacing the performance function while performing as a self-improving function for learning procedures. Recent works on adaptive Kriging pursued to improve the efficiency of the active learning through the application of distinct...journal article 2020
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Bakker, N.J. (author), Rasia, Alix (author), Assen, Suzanne (author), Aflouat, Basma Ben Said (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Theelen, Mirjam (author)When a PV module is partially shaded, the shaded solar cells operate in a reverse bias condition. For Cu(In,Ga)Se2 cells this condition can cause defects that irreversibly reduce the output of these cells and the full module. In order to design robust shade-tolerant CIGS modules details need to be known of the conditions at which these...journal article 2020
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Fan, J. (author), Wu, Jie (author), Jiang, Changzhen (author), Zhang, H. (author), Ibrahim, M.S. (author), Deng, Liang (author)To make the light-emitting diode (LED) more compact and effective, the flip chip solder joint is recommended in LED chip-scale packaging (CSP) with critical functions in mechanical support, heat dissipation, and electrical conductivity. However, the generation of voids always challenges the mechanical strength, thermal stability, and...journal article 2020
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Wiegmans, B. (author), Witte, Patrick (author), Janic, M. (author), de Jong, Tom (author)This paper examines the use of big data and data analytics in international transport networks from the perspective of historical big data, focusing on shipping logs from the British, Dutch, Spanish and French fleets in between 1662 and 1855. Based on a large-scale database containing mainly meteorological data collected in the CLIWOC project...journal article 2020
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Pang, Menglin (author), Tiberius, C.C.J.M. (author)This paper presents an approach to analyse the quality, in terms of precision and reliability, of a system which integrates-at the observation-level-landmark positions and GNSS measurements, obtained with a single camera and a digital map, and a single frequency GNSS receiver respectively. We illustrate the analysis by means of design...journal article 2020
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Seyffert, Harleigh C. (author), Kana, A.A. (author)Evaluating marine system reliability requires considering the interaction of a limit state with the stochastic ocean excitation. Given a range of operational profiles, a relevant question is which sea states lead to the worst-case system responses, considering the effects of short and long-term variability. If the identified subset of...journal article 2020
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Wei, C. (author), Hendriks, Koen V. (author), van Riemsdijk, M.B. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)Agents in teamwork may be highly interdependent on each other, the awareness of interdependence relationships is an important requirement for designing and consequently implementing a multi-agent system. In this work, we propose a formal graphical and domain-independent language that can facilitate the identification of comprehensive...journal article 2019
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Nogal Macho, M. (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author), O'Connor, A. (author)The concept of intrinsic vulnerability of a traffic network is defined for the first time in this paper. Intrinsic vulnerability is the susceptibility to incidents characterised by a probability of occurrence in space and time of difficult estimation, which can result in considerable reduction or loss of the system functionality. Given the...journal article 2019
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Liu, Y. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Wang, Lingen (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Sun, Fenglian (author)Purpose: Crack and stress distribution on dies are key issues for the pressure-assisted sintering bonding of power modules. The purpose of this research is to build a relationship among stress distributions, sintering sequences and sintering pressures during the sintering processes. Design/methodology/approach: Three sintering sequences, S(a)...journal article 2019
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Mendoza Lugo, M.A. (author), Delgado-Hernández, David-Joaquín (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author)In the bridge industry, current traffic trends have increased the likelihood of having the simultaneous presence of both extreme live loads and earthquake events. To date, their concurrent interaction has scarcely been systematically studied. Prevailing studies have investigated the isolated existence of either live loads or seismic actions. In...journal article 2019
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Palin, D. (author), Mo, Yu (author), Wiktor, V.A.C. (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author)Presented is a modified test for generating crack permeability data for cementitious materials. Single-parallel cracks were generated in mortar specimens. The width of the cracks was analysed through stereomicroscope and computer tomography, and the water permeability of the cracks was determined. Reduction factors and crack flow models were...journal article 2019
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Nair, Varun (author), Litjens, R. (author), Zhang, Haibin (author)A suitability assessment and performance optimisation is presented of narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) cellular technology for use in smart energy distribution networks. The focus is on the reliable and timely delivery of outage restoration and management (ORM) messages at the event of a local or regional power outage. Both the cellular...journal article 2019
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- Calvo, Jose Luis (author), Tindemans, Simon H. (author), Strbac, Goran (author) journal article 2018
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Schouhamer Immink, Kees A. (author), Cai, Kui (author), Weber, J.H. (author)We consider the transmission and storage of encoded strings of symbols over a noisy channel, where dynamic threshold detection is proposed for achieving resilience against unknown scaling and offset of the received signal. We derive simple rules for dynamically estimating the unknown scale (gain) and offset. The estimates of the actual gain...journal article 2018
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Corman, Francesco (author), Quaglietta, E. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Railway transportation provides sustainable, fast and safe transport. Its attractiveness is linked to a broad concept of service reliability: the capability to adhere to a timetable in the presence of delays perturbing traffic. To counter these phenomena, real-time rescheduling can be used, changing train orders and times, according to rules of...journal article 2018
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Christodoulou, A. (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author)In this paper, a method is proposed for solving relative translations of 3D point clouds collected by Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) techniques. The proposed approach uses the attributes of the 3D points to generate and match 2D-projections, by employing a simple correlation technique instead of matching in 3D. As a result, the developed method...journal article 2018