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This paper aims to present a comprehensive technique to quantitatively assess the reliability of substation automation systems. The technique is based on the tie-sets methodology. In order to demonstrate the application of the proposed technique, a variety of substation automation architectures is first introduced. The associated reliability block diagrams as well as the exact system reliability are then given. The impacts and the degree of importance of various components on the reliability of substation automation systems are presented. Two suitable measures of importance are selected. The first is the Birnbaum's measure used to determine the bottleneck of the system reliability. The... 

In this paper, Bayesian Network (BN) is used for reliability assessment of composite power systems with emphasis on the importance of system components. A simple approach is presented to construct the BN associated with a given power system. The approach is based on the capability of the BN to learn from data which makes it possible to be applied to large power systems. The required training data is provided by state sampling using the Monte Carlo simulation. The constructed BN is then used to perform different probabilistic assessments such as ranking the criticality and importance of system components from reliability perspective. The BN is also used to compute the frequency and... 

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a very interesting nano-scale technology. Extremely small feature size and ultra-low power consumption are the most important features of QCA compared to CMOS. Counters are considered as one of the most fundamental components in sequential circuits. Previous QCA synchronous counters (QSCs) have been designed and simulated using two methods. In the first method, QSCs utilize direct mapping flip-flop designs in CMOS technology to QCA. In the second method, QSCs are designed with the inherent capability of QCA technology. Despite being attractive, mentioned approaches have constraints (i.e. long wire length and area issues). In this brief, design and...