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Conferences

A Decade of Automatic Content Evaluation of News Summaries: Reassessing the State of the Art

August 5, 2013

Author(s)

Peter Rankel, John M. Conroy, Hoa T. Dang, Ani Nenkova

How good are automatic content metrics for news summary evaluation? Here we provide a detailed answer to this question, with a particular focus on assessing the...

Statistical Analysis of Single PPTA Fibers

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

Nathanael A. Heckert

Discuss statistical methods used for analysis of single fiber tensile strength tests. Kernel density plots and quantile-quantile plots were used to graphically...

Determination of Interfacial Shear Strength in Epoxy/Glass Composites by Multi-Fiber Fragmentation Test (MFFT)

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Gale A. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Gilman

The mechanical strength of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the interface achieved between the continuous matrix...

Determination of Interfacial Shear Strength in Epoxy/Glass Composites by Multi-Fiber Fragmentation Test (MFFT)

August 2, 2013

Author(s)

Edward D. McCarthy, Jae H. Kim, N. Alan Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Gale A. Holmes, Jeffrey W. Gilman

The mechanical strength of a structural composite is strongly affected by the strength and toughness of the interface achieved between the continuous matrix...

Three Years of DLMF: Web, Math & Search

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

Bruce R. Miller

DLMF was released to the public in May 2010 and is now completing its 3rd year online. As a somewhat early adopter of large-scale MathML content online, and...

The Effects of Wildfire Prevention Activities

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

Douglas S. Thomas, David T. Butry, Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Eighty percent of wildfires are human caused, so it is important for decision makers and land managers to consider the role of prevention activities that...

Performance Assessments of Android-powered Military Applications Operating on Tactical Handheld Devices

August 1, 2013

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Lisa J. Fronczek, Emile L. Morse, Zeid Kootbally, Craig I. Schlenoff

Transformative Apps (TransApps) is a DARPA-funded program whose goal is to develop a range of militarily-relevant software applications ("apps") to enhance the...

An Efficient Approach to Assessing the Risk of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

July 31, 2013

Author(s)

M. Albanese, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal, Lingyu Wang

Computer systems are vulnerable to both known and zero-day attacks. Although known attack patterns can be easily modeled, thus enabling the definition of...

Theoretical Failure Envelopes of Open Hole Composite Laminates with A- and B-Basis Allowables Estimated from Smooth Specimen Properties

July 29, 2013

Author(s)

Jeffrey Fong, Carlos A. Cimini, Jose D. Melo, N. Alan Heckert, James J. Filliben

Composite material property databases are important information to guide designers. Aeronautical companies spend a great deal of effort in terms of money and...

On the anisotropic attenuation behavior of the flexure mode of carbon fiber composites

July 28, 2013

Author(s)

Brian M. Burks, Marvin A. Hamstad

The uploaded document is the conference abstract. This particular conference is peer reviewed, requiring a 2 page abstract which is reviewed. Accepted works are...

On the anisotropic attenuation behavior of the flexure mode of carbon fiber composites

July 28, 2013

Author(s)

Brian M. Burks, Marvin A. Hamstad

In this work a coupled experimental-numerical approach was developed to study the anisotropic far field attenuation behavior of plate-type unidirectional carbon...

Strain rate effect on single PPTA fiber tensile behaviour

July 28, 2013

Author(s)

Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

Statistical Analysis of Single PPTA Fibers

July 28, 2013

Author(s)

N. Alan Heckert, Jae H. Kim, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes

Discuss statistical methods used for analysis of single fiber tensile strength tests. Kernel density plots and quantile-quantile plots were used to graphically...

Additive Manufacturing: Overview and NDE Challenges

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

John A. Slotwinski

Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are capable of producing highly complex and customized parts, without the need for dedicated tooling, and can produce...

Infrared Thermography for Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Processes

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

Shawn P. Moylan, Eric P. Whitenton, Brandon M. Lane, John A. Slotwinski

Additive manufacturing (AM) has the potential to revolutionize discrete part manufacturing, but improvements in processing of metallic materials are necessary...

Porosity of Additive Manufacturing Parts for Process Monitoring

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

John A. Slotwinski, Edward J. Garboczi

Some metal additive manufacturing processes can produce parts with internal porosity, either intentionally (with careful selection of the process parameters) or...

Non-Rigid and Partial 3D Model Retrieval Using Hybrid Shape Descriptor and Meta Similarity

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

Bo Li, Afzal A. Godil, Henry Johan

Non-rigid and partial 3D model retrieval are two significant and challenging research directions in the field of 3D model retrieval. Little work has been done...

Where in the Internet is Congestion?

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

Daniel I. Genin

Understanding distribution of congestion in the Internet is a long-standing problem. Using data from the SamKnows US broadband access network measurement study...

Proposed E57.02 Range Measurement Performance Standard for Medium Range 3D Imaging Systems

July 26, 2013

Author(s)

David MacKinnon, Luc Cournoyer, Kamel Saidi, Geraldine Cheok, Robert Bridges, Darin Ingimarson

We present the proposed standard ASTM E57.02 "Test Method to Evaluate the Range Measurement Performance of 3D Imaging Systems in the Medium Range" (Work Item...

Significance Test with Data Dependency in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

July 25, 2013

Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker, Vincent M. Stanford

To evaluate the performance of speaker recognition systems, a detection cost function defined as a weighted sum of the probabilities of type I and type II...

Cancellation of Doppler Shifts in a Cold-Atom CPT Clock

July 25, 2013

Author(s)

Elizabeth A. Donley, Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, Eric M. Blanshan, John E. Kitching

A compact cold-atom clock based on coherent population trapping (CPT) is being developed. Long-term goals for the clock include achieving a fractional frequency...

Analytic determination of optimal projector lens design requirements for pixilated projectors used to test pixilated imaging sensors

July 25, 2013

Author(s)

Joseph P. Rice

A model is described for the problem of optimally projecting a pixellated light source onto a pixellated imaging sensor, in the context that the projected...

Computational Cognitive Modeling of Touch and Gesture on Mobile Multitouch Devices: Applications and Challenges for Existing Theory

July 24, 2013

Author(s)

Kristen Greene, Ross J. Micheals, Franklin Tamborello

As technology continues to evolve, so too must our modeling and simulation techniques. While formal engineering models of cognitive and perceptual-motor...

A Chosen IV Related Key Attack on Grain-128a

July 24, 2013

Author(s)

Subhadeep Banik, Subhamoy Maitra, Santanu (. Sarkar, Meltem Sonmez Turan

Due to the symmetric padding used in the stream cipher Grain v1 and Grain-128, it is possible to find Key-IV pairs that generate shifted keystreams efficiently...

Principles for Profiling Healthcare Data Communication Standards

July 22, 2013

Author(s)

Robert D. Snelick

Healthcare organizations often have many proprietary heterogeneous information systems that must exchange data reliably. Seamlessly sharing information among...

A finite element thermal simulation of a microwave blackbody calibration target

July 21, 2013

Author(s)

Derek A. Houtz, Dave K. Walker

A method is introduced to determine the gradient between measured physical temperature and true radiating surface temperature of a passive microwave calibration...

Challenges of the Changing Robot Markets

July 19, 2013

Author(s)

Gurvinder S. Virk, Carol Herman, Roger V. Bostelman, Tamas Haidegger

Service robots are becoming an integrated part of daily life, entering even the most complex scenarios, yet at a slower pace than previously anticipated. This...

Determining the Uncertainty of Frequency Measurements Referenced to GPS Disciplined Oscillators

July 15, 2013

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi

GPS disciplined oscillators (GPSDOs) are commonly used as references for frequency calibrations. Over long intervals, a GPSDO is an inherently accurate source...

THE EFFECT OF MICROSTRUCTURE ON THE HYDROGEN-ASSISTED FATIGUE OF PIPELINE STEELS

July 14, 2013

Author(s)

Andrew J. Slifka, Elizabeth S. Drexler, Robert L. Amaro, Damian S. Lauria, April Stevenson, Douglas G. Stalheim, Louis E. Hayden

Tests on the fatigue crack growth rate were conducted on four pipeline steels, two of grade API 5L- X52 and two API 5L-X70. One X52 material was from the mid...

Picometer metrology for precise measurement of refractive index, pressure, and temperature

July 14, 2013

Author(s)

Jack A. Stone Jr., Patrick F. Egan, Jay H. Hendricks, Gregory F. Strouse, Douglas A. Olson, Jacob E. Ricker, Gregory E. Scace

For several years we have been studying the use of Fabry-Perot interferometers for precise measurement of the refractive index of gasses, where the primary...

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