scholarly journals Rejoinder: The Future of Reliability

Psychometrika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Sijtsma ◽  
Julius M. Pfadt
Keyword(s):  
Reliability Method ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Topics

AbstractIn this rejoinder, we examine some of the issues Peter Bentler, Eunseong Cho, and Jules Ellis raise. We suggest a methodological solid way to construct a test indicating that the importance of the particular reliability method used is minor, and we discuss future topics in reliability research.

Establishing a Human Factors Career in the New Millennium: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (34) ◽  
pp. 391-391
Author(s):  
Ronald G. Shapiro ◽  
Anthony D. Andre ◽  
Arnold M. Lund ◽  
Jean E. Fox ◽  
Jennifer Watts-Perotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Human Factors And Ergonomics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Topics ◽  
New Millennium

Welcome to the seventh annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society career panel. This year, each panelist was asked to answer six questions related to careers now and in the future. Topics selected include: working environment, becoming a professional, skills and experiences.

Predicting Remaining Driving Time and Distance of a Planetary Rover Under Uncertainty

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Daigle ◽  
Shankar Sankararaman
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo Sampling ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Planetary Rover ◽  
Sources Of Uncertainty ◽  
First Order ◽  
Driving Time ◽  
Reliability Method ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Operational Decision Making

The operations of a planetary rover depend critically upon the amount of power that can be delivered by its batteries. In order to plan the future operation, it is important to make reliable predictions regarding the end-of-discharge (EOD) time, which can be used to estimate the remaining driving time (RDT) and remaining driving distance (RDD). These quantities are stochastic in nature, not only because there are several sources of uncertainty that affect the rover’s operation but also since the future operating conditions cannot be known precisely. This paper presents a computational methodology to predict these stochastic quantities, based on a model of the rover and its batteries. We utilize a model-based prognostics framework that characterizes and incorporates the various sources of uncertainty into these predictions, thereby assisting operational decision-making. We consider two different types of driving scenarios and develop methods for each to characterize the associated uncertainty. Monte Carlo sampling and the inverse first-order reliability method are used to compute the stochastic predictions of EOD time, RDT, and RDD.

California: The Planet of the Future

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Stanley Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Orange County ◽  
The State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sacramento Delta ◽  
Future Topics ◽  
Fiction Writer

Boom interviews prolific science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about writing, California, and the future. Topics of discussion include utopian and dystopian visions of the state, the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Delta, the Orange County of Robinson’s youth, how California’s landscape and environment have informed science fiction, terraforming, utopia, dystopia, and finding a balance between technology and environmentalism.

scholarly journals AN INTRODUCTION TO PROSPECTIVE MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING (PMADM)

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarfaraz HASHEMKHANI ZOLFANI ◽  
Reza MAKNOON ◽  
Edmundas Kazimieras ZAVADSKAS
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Attribute Decision Making ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Multiple Attribute ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Future Topics

In recent years futures science has received a great deal of attention and has gained worldwide credibility in the science community as the science of tomorrows. The countless applications of futures studies in various fields have been a major breakthrough for mankind. Undoubtedly, decision making is one of the most significant aspects of shaping the future and an integral part of any credible future research. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in general and Multiple Attribute Decision Making in particular (MADM), are among the most remarkable subparts of the decision making process. The most recent model developed using the MADM method is the Dynamic MADM. The model does not specifically concentrate on the future actions and approaches and remains to be fully explored. This research presents a new concept and a new approach in the MADM field which is called the Prospective Multiple Attribute Decision Making (PMADM). The PMADM model can very well cover the DMADM concept but instead chooses to focus on future topics. The study also introduces two new approaches. The first research aims to elaborate the basis of this model and then evolves to deal with the future limiters as they potentially pop up and change the course of future actions. The new model based on future limiters is separated and categorized into two sections; one of which is looked upon without the probabilities rate and the other one with the probabilities rate. This approach is deemed priceless due to its major applicability in the ranking of the MADM methods such as: TOPSIS, VIKOR, COPRAS, ARAS, WASPAS and etc. Finally, a case study with the various applications of PMADM model in WASPAS methodology is put forth and illustrated.

scholarly journals MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING (MADM) BASED SCENARIOS

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarfaraz HASHEMKHANI ZOLFANI ◽  
Reza MAKNOON
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Multiple Attribute Decision Making ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
New Approach ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Multiple Attribute ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Topics

Decision making takes into account a myriad of factors about the future topics, which often prove challenging and quite complicated. Multiple Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) methods still have not become powerful enough to help decision makers to adopt the best solutions regarding future issues. Different scenarios are suitable for developing an appropriate outlook toward different probable futures. Scenarios are not inherently quantitative, but recently different integrated quantitative methods have been incorporated with the processes in various studies. Previously, different types of scenario-based MADM methods have been presented in different studies, but they just considered each case separately. In those studies, MADM methods were only applied to evaluate the situation in scenario-based MADM. This research concentrates on another paradigm in applying scenarios to upcoming events, MADM methods in the new area are explored, and the concept, which is called MADM based scenarios, is presented. In different situations and scenarios, different MADM models will happen. New concepts about most useful criterion and applicable alternatives are introduced in this new approach for decision-making about the future. In addition, a general framework is proposed for applying MADM-based scenarios for unpredictable scenarios and situations, which can be almost controlled future in practice.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

Status of the Lick Proper Motion Program

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
The Future

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.

Some Structural Features of Metaphase Chromosomes of Mice and Men

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
Godfrey C. Hoskins ◽  
Betty B. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Metaphase Chromosomes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Of Mice And Men ◽  
Mouse Cells ◽  
Human And Mouse

Metaphase chromosomes from human and mouse cells in vitro are isolated by micrurgy, fixed, and placed on grids for electron microscopy. Interpretations of electron micrographs by current methods indicate the following structural features.Chromosomal spindle fibrils about 200Å thick form fascicles about 600Å thick, wrapped by dense spiraling fibrils (DSF) less than 100Å thick as they near the kinomere. Such a fascicle joins the future daughter kinomere of each metaphase chromatid with those of adjacent non-homologous chromatids to either side. Thus, four fascicles (SF, 1-4) attach to each metaphase kinomere (K). It is thought that fascicles extend from the kinomere poleward, fray out to let chromosomal fibrils act as traction fibrils against polar fibrils, then regroup to join the adjacent kinomere.

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