Analysis of Printing Process Based on a Stochastic Max-Plus- Linear Approach

The scheduling algorithm of the printer is an important factor that affects printing efficiency. For current printers, paper scheduling often follows the first-in-first-out principle, so it is often not optimal. The printer system is a type of semi-cyclic discrete-event system with synchronization but no concurrency. The system contains a set of...

An Investigation on the Current Collection Quality of Railway Pantograph-catenary Systems with Contact Wire Wear Degradations

In railway pantograph-catenary systems, the contact surfaces undergo wear in long-term operations, directly affecting interaction performance and potentially deteriorating the current collection quality. The effect of contact wire wear (CWW) on the current collection quality should be evaluated to understand the system's health status in...

A numerical Fourier cosine method for forward backward stochastic differential equations with jumps

In financial and egineering problems, we are often faced with solving Partial-Integro Differential Equations (PIDEs). Rarely we can find an analytic solution in a closed form expression for these PIDEs, hence we turn to numerical schemes to accurately approximate the solution instead. Classically these methods are based on finite difference...

A probabilistic analysis of results of co-registration of aerial and mobile laser-scanned point clouds

Over the last decades, laser scanners are becoming more and more established for the acquisition of geo-information. Depending on the sensor platform where the laser scanners are mounted, there are MLS, ALS and TLS techniques for both indoor and outdoor environments. The high-quality 3D point clouds produced from laser scanners is an important...

Modeling stochastic behavior of state variables within the optimization of departure procedures

Effect of stochastic material properties on the structural response of laminated composite materials: following the building block approach

This report, which from now and onwards will be called the main body of the thesis, covers the core of the<br/>problem that has to be solved. Generally, the aim of this thesis is to investigate a laminated composite’s<br/>structural response, made of FRP, when its material properties are assumed stochastic instead of<br/>deterministic. The...

A new robust design for imperfection sensitive stiffened cylinders used in aerospace engineering

A knock-down factor is commonly used to take into account the obvious decline of the buckling load in a cylindrical shell caused by the inevitable imperfections. In 1968, NASA guideline SP-8007 gave knock-down factors which rely on a lower-bound curve taken from experimental data. Recent research has indicated that the NASA knock-down factors...

Definition and evaluation of production test validation methods applied to Vx multiphase flow meters

Accurate flow rate measurements are very important in production testing. Originally small and insignificant deviations could propagate in subsequent applications where flow rate data is used as input parameter. Vx multiphase flow meters give much more information compared to conventional test separators. This extra data can be used for extra...

Robust option replication for a Black-Scholes model extended with nondeterministic trends

Statistical analysis on various stocks reveals long range dependence behavior of the stock prices that is not consistent with the classical Black and Scholes model. This memory or nondeterministic trend behavior is often seen as a reflection of market sentiments and causes that the historical volatility estimator becomes unreliable in practice....