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Capturing business rules in a formal logic representation supports the enterprise in two important ways: it enables the evaluation of logs and audit records for...
Advances in mobile touchscreen computing offer new opportunities to test traditional cognitive architectures and modeling tools in a novel task domain. ACT...
O. Marchuk, Yuri Ralchenko, David R. Schultz, W. Biel, T. Schlummer, TEXTOR Team
Injection of high energy atoms into a confined plasma volume is an established diagnostic technique in fusion research. This method strongly depends on the...
Long-term preservation of product data is imperative for many organizations. A product data archive should be designed to ensure information accessibility and...
Kamran Sayrafian, Luca Zappaterra, Hyeong-Ah Choi, Jari Iinatti
Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) are designed to increase spectrum utilization by allowing unlicensed secondary users (SUs) to operate over existing wireless...
Burm Baek, Samuel P. Benz, William H. Rippard, Stephen E. Russek, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Horst Rogalla, Matthew R. Pufall
If Josephson and spintronic technologies can be successfully integrated to produce a cryogenic memory that can be controlled with single-flux quantum pulses...
LaTeXML, a TeX to XML converter, is being used in a wide range of MKM applications. In this paper, we present a progress report for the 2012 calendar year...
Ed Morse, Yue Peng, Vijay Srinivasan, Craig M. Shakarji
The recent release of ISO 14405-1 has provided designers with a richer set of specification tools for the size of part features, so that various functional...
I describe the NIST smart grid framework and its applicability as a model for organizational efforts to advance cyber-physical systems, and provide an overview...
Amanda P. Robbins, Richard Gann, William F. Guthrie
Results from ASTM E2187, ISO 12863 and NZS/AS4830 for testing the ignition propensity of cigarettes have limitations that include sensitivity to mass, moisture...
Roger D. Eastman, Jeremy Marvel, Joseph Falco, Tsai H. Hong
Users of perception systems in industrial manufacturing applications need standardized, third party ground truth procedures to validate system performance...
Afzal A. Godil, Roger V. Bostelman, Kamel Saidi, William P. Shackleford, Geraldine Cheok, Michael O. Shneier, Tsai H. Hong
We have been researching 3D ground-truth systems for performance evaluation of vision and perception systems in the fields of smart manufacturing and robotics...
Zachary H. Levine, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Adam L. Pintar, Daniel S. Sawyer
NIST Standard Reference Materials 2087 and 2088 for medical computed tomography (CT) have become available. The materials allow CT reconstructions to be tied to...
Matthew D. Brubaker, Kristine A. Bertness, Norman A. Sanford, Brian Gorman, David R. Diercks, R Kirchofer
GaN has seen use in many applications such as photovoltaics, blue and ultraviolet lasers, and light-emitting diodes with additional research into expanded and...
Laura C. Sinclair, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Atmospheric optical path-length variations are measured across a 2-km optical link through a frequency comb-based system with femtosecond-level precision...
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, David Bolme, Bruce A. Draper, Geof H. Givens, Yui M. Lui, Hao Zhang, W T. Scruggs, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn, Su L. Cheng
Face recognition is appearing in personal and commercial products at an astonishing rate, yet reliable face recognition remains challenging. Users expect a lot...
To design robust network topologies that resist strategic attacks, one must first be able to quantify robustness. In a recent line of research, the theory of...
Bryan M. Barnes, Martin Y. Sohn, Francois R. Goasmat, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver, Abraham Arceo
Experimental imaging at =193 nm of sub-resolved defects performed at several focus positions yields a volume of spatial and intensity data. Defects are located...
Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki, Junichi Suzuki, Yoshihiko Hayashi
Firebrand production from a real-scale structure under well-controlled laboratory conditions was investigated. The structure was fabricated using wood studs and...
Nathan D. Marsh, Richard G. Gann, John R. Shields, Marc R. Nyden
Efforts are underway in several research groups to adapt existing flammability test methods for the determination of yields of toxic compounds such as CO, HCN...
Jinan Zeng, Leonard M. Hanssen, George P. Eppeldauer
Dome-input pyroelectric radiometers with different black coatings were developed to extend the spectral responsivity scale from near infrared (NIR) to 20 μm...
Mary Frances Theofanos, Andrew Dienstfrey, Brian Stanton, Haiying Guan
Although fingerprint recognition is a well-studied area, forensic fingerprint preprocessing based on computational theory is still a relatively new domain in...
Jing Qin, Hui Zhou, Bryan M. Barnes, Ronald G. Dixson, Richard M. Silver
A new approach that involves parametric fitting of 3-D scattered field with electromagnetic simulation, Fourier domain normalization, and uncertainties analysis...
Cryptographic applications, such as hashing, block ciphers and stream ciphers, make use of functions which are simple by some criteria (such as circuit...
Multivariate Public Key Cryptography (MPKC) has become one of a few options for security in the quantum model of computing. Though a few multivariate systems...
Ryan Johnson, Zhaohui Wang, Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas
In this manuscript, we present our efforts towards a framework for exposing the functionality of a mobile application through a combination of static and...
Aurelien M. Delaitre, Vadim Okun, Elizabeth N. Fong
Static analysis produces large amounts of data. The volume of data allows for new developments in research. Practical observations of the effectiveness of...
Patrick Kamongi, Srujan Kotikela, Krishna Kavi, Mahadevan Gomathisankaran, Anoop Singhal
Assessing security of software services on Cloud is complex because the security depends on the vulnerability of infrastructure, platform and the software...
Mark McLinden, Andrei Kazakov, J. Steven Brown, Piotr Domanski
We explore the possibilities for refrigerants having low global warming potential (GWP) by use of two distinct approaches. In a companion paper (Domanski et al...
Kamran Sayrafian, Hamid Mahboubi, Jalal Habibi, Amir Aghdam
This paper proposes efficient schemes to increase sensing coverage in a network composed of both mobile and static sensors. The proposed deployment techniques...