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Conferences

It's All About The Benjamins: Fair Trade botnets and incentivizing users to ignore security advice

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Serge M. Egelman, Nicolas Christin, Timothy Vidas, Jens Grossklags

We examine the cost for an attacker to pay users to execute arbitrary code---potentially malware. We created an Amazon's Mechanical Turk task wherein users were...

Characterization of Hyperspectral Imaging and Analysis via Microarray Printing of Dyes

February 22, 2011

Author(s)

Matthew L. Clarke, Maritoni A. Litorja, David W. Allen, Daniel V. Samarov, Jeeseong Hwang

The application of hyperspectral imaging requires rigorous characterization of the spatial and spectral imaging domains of the system. We present a microarray...

A Direct Analysis Method for Drift-Sensitive Steel Moment Frames

February 17, 2011

Author(s)

John L. Harris

Design interaction equations for steel members in a moment frame are formulated based on inelastic member capacities that account for geometric imperfections...

Effects of ozone treatment on fungal growth, chemical components and surface morphological characteristics of wood flooring materials

February 16, 2011

Author(s)

Chi P. Hoang, Tinh Nguyen, Deborah S. Jacobs, Andrew K. Persily

The effects of ozone treatment and extraction on fungal activities of bamboo and red-oak flooring materials have been investigated. One set of wood samples was...

The Role of Service Life Prediction In Sustainability Determinations

February 14, 2011

Author(s)

Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston

Sustainability calculations are based on assumptions about the energy required to produce, transport place in-service items. A critical component of these...

An examination of spectral diversity of medical scenes for hyperspectral projection

February 14, 2011

Author(s)

David Allen

There are numerous medical conditions which may benefit from hyperspectral imaging. The imagers used for these conditions will need to have the performance...

Rapid, high resolution frequency comb measurements

February 13, 2011

Author(s)

Ian R. Coddington, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Esther Baumann, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

Frequency combs serve as an extremely high accuracy reference across broad portions of the optical spectrum. Dual frequency combs harness this accuracy and...

Block-copolymer photonic crystal gel for mechanical strain sensing

February 13, 2011

Author(s)

Edwin Chan, Christopher Stafford, Edwin L. Thomas, Joseph Walish

OCT For Depth Detection of Buried Particles in Polymeric Materials

February 13, 2011

Author(s)

Robert C. Chang, Anant Agrawal, Peter M. Johnson, Christopher Stafford

In this work, we demonstrate a method to produce novel optical phantoms usable for the characterization of OCT axial resolution and contrast. By varying the...

Manipulation of adhesion via sub-surface patterning

February 13, 2011

Author(s)

John A. Howarter, Peter M. Johnson, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford

The delamination characteristics of patterned and hierarchical interfaces are of great interest due to the advanced adhesion capabilities found with many...

Effect of interfaces and adhesion on the creep compliance of thin polymer coatings

February 13, 2011

Author(s)

Peter M. Johnson, John A. Howarter, Christopher Stafford

Thin film indentation experiments on viscoelastic materials allowed for the deconvolution of the bulk compliance from interfacial responses at the buried...

A Comparative Analysis of Cascade Measures for Novelty and Diversity

February 10, 2011

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Charles L. Clarke, Nick Craswell, Azin Ashkan

Traditional editorial effectiveness measures, such as nDCG, remain standard for Web search evaluation. Unfortunately, these traditional measures can...

System-independent assessment of OCT axial resolution with a bar chart phantom

February 10, 2011

Author(s)

Robert C. Chang, Jeeseong Hwang, Christopher M. Stafford, Anant Agrawal, T. Joshua Pfefer, Megan Connors

We present a novel optical phantom approach for the characterization of OCT axial resolution and contrast via multilayered bar charts. We explored two methods...

Hyperspectral image projection of a pig kidney for the evaluation of imagers used for oximetry

February 10, 2011

Author(s)

David W. Allen

Hyperspectral image projection applied to optical medical imaging can provide a means to evaluate imager performance. This allows repeated viewing of unique...

Semantic-based Optimal XML Schema Matching: A Mathematical Programming Approach

February 9, 2011

Author(s)

Jaewook Kim, Yun Peng, Nenad Ivezic, Jun H. Shin

We propose a novel solution for semantic-based XML schema matching, taking a mathematical programming approach. This method identifies the globally optimal...

Co-X Panel Discussion

February 4, 2011

Author(s)

Elena R. Messina, Brian A. Weiss, Rajmohan (. Madhavan

Robots as co-protectors, co-inhabitants, co-workers, co-integrants, or more generically, "Co-X" will improve effectiveness, efficiency, safety, security, and...

Mixed Pallet Stacking: An Overview and Summary of the 2010 PerMIS Special Session

February 4, 2011

Author(s)

Stephen B. Balakirsky, Henrik I. Christensen, Thomas Kramer, Pushkar Kolhe, Frederick M. Proctor

Stacking boxes of various sizes and contents on pallets (i.e. making mixed pallets) is a primary method of preparing goods for shipment from a warehouse to a...

Advanced Sensing Towards Improved Forklift Safety

February 4, 2011

Author(s)

Roger V. Bostelman, William P. Shackleford

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Intelligent Systems Division has been researching advanced three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors and their...

Towards Evaluating World Modeling for Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments

February 4, 2011

Author(s)

R Lakaemper, Rajmohan (. Madhavan

With funding from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants, the...

CHARACTERIZING FIREBRAND EXPOSURE DURING WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE FIRES.

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Ethan I. Foote, John Liu

This study examines the size distribution and other characteristics of firebrand exposure during the 2007 Angora Fire, a severe Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)...

SUSTAINABLE FLAME RETARDANTS: BIO-DERIVED PRODUCTS AS INTUMESCING MATERIALS

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Mauro Zammarano, Douglas M. Fox, Szabolcs Matko, Takashi Kashiwagi, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Rick D. Davis

Scientists are shifting their attention towards technology sustainability and sustainable materials, specifically in terms of energy and environmental impacts...

Absorption of Thermal Radiation by Burning Polymers

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris, Mauro Zammarano, Boris Wilthan, Leonard M. Hanssen

In large-scale fires, the input of energy to burning materials occurs predominantly by radiative transfer. The in-depth absorption of radiant energy by a...

EXPOSING SIDING TREATMENTS AND WALLS FITTED WITH EAVES TO FIREBRAND SHOWERS

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki, Yoshihiko Hayashi

An experimental campaign was undertaken to determine vulnerabilities of siding treatments and walls fitted with eaves to firebrand bombardment using the NIST...

First-principles Study of Defect Migration in RE-doped Ceria (RE = Pr, Gd)

February 2, 2011

Author(s)

Pratik Dholabhai, James B. Adams, Peter A. Crozier, Renu Sharma

Oxygen vacancy formation and migration in ceria (CeO2) is central to its performance as an ionic conductor. Ceria doped with suitable aliovalent dopants has...

Study of Nanostructure Inclusion Effects on the Thermoelectric Behavior of Ca3Co4O9 Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition

February 1, 2011

Author(s)

Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Evans L. Thomas, Xueyan Song, Yonggao Y. Yan, Joshua B. Martin, Margaret Ratcliff, Paul N. Barnes

The influence of incorporating nanoparticulate additions into Ca3Co4O9 (CCO) thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition using composite targets of CCO +...

Metrics for Mixed Pallet Stacking

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Stephen B. Balakirsky, Thomas R. Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor

Stacking boxes of various sizes and contents on pallets (i.e. making mixed pallets) is a primary method of preparing goods for shipment from a warehouse to a...

Metrics for the Cost of Proprietary Information Exchange Languages in Intelligent Systems

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

John A. Horst, Nathan W. Hartman, George Wong

The increasing number of intelligent software components is accompanied by an increase of proprietary information exchange languages between components. One of...

Comprehensive Standard Test Suites for the Performance Evaluation of Mobile Robots

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Adam S. Jacoff, Hui-Min Huang, Elena R. Messina, Ann M. Virts, Anthony J. Downs

Robots must possess certain sets of capabilities to suit critical operations such as emergency responses. In the mobility function, ground robots must be able...

Evaluation of Maps using Fixed Shapes: The Fiducial Map Metric

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Soren Schwertfeger, Adam S. Jacoff, Christopher Scrapper, Johannes Pellenz, Alexander Kleiner

Mapping is an important task for mobile robots. Assessing the quality of those maps is an open topic. A new approach on map evaluation is presented here. It...

Benchmarking Production System, Process Energy, and Facility Energy Performance Using a Systems Approach

January 31, 2011

Author(s)

Jorge Arinez, Stephan Biller, Kevin W. Lyons, Swee K. Leong, Guodong Shao, Byeong Eon Lee, John L. Michaloski

Evaluating overall energy performance of a manufacturing system requires accurate information on how, when, and where energy is being used. Collecting and...

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