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Conferences

Interference Avoidance in Rapidly Deployed Wireless Ad hoc Incident Area Networks

April 18, 2008

Author(s)

Mohamed T. Refaei, Nader Moayeri, Michael R. Souryal

A common strategy for responding to indoor emergency scenarios is to rapidly deploy a group of first responders inside the incident area and an incident command...

On Maximizing Provider Revenue in Market-based Compute Grids

April 17, 2008

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh, Kevin L. Mills

Market-based compute grids encompass service providers offering limited resources to potential users with varying demands and willingness to pay. Providers face...

Second Preimage Attacks on Dithered Hash Functions

April 17, 2008

Author(s)

Elena Andreeva, Charles Bouillaguet, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Jonathan J. Hoch, John M. Kelsey, Adi Shamir, Sebastien Zimmer

We develop a new generic long-message second preimage attack, based on combining the techniques in the second preimage attacks of Dean Dean99} and Kelsey and...

Linear-XOR and Additive Checksums Don t Protect Damgaard-Merkle Hashes from Generic Attacks

April 17, 2008

Author(s)

Praveen Gauravaram, John M. Kelsey

We consider the security of Damgaard-Merkle variants which computer linear-XOR or additive checksums over message blocks, intermediate hash values, or both, and...

Optical Through-Focus Technique that Differentiates Small Changes in Line Width, Line Height and Sidewall Angle for CD, Overlay, and Defect Metrology Applications

April 16, 2008

Author(s)

Ravikiran Attota, Richard M. Silver, Bryan M. Barnes

We present a new optical technique for dimensional analysis of sub 100 nm sized targets by analyzing through-focus images obtained using a conventional bright...

A Taxonomy of Homeland Security Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis Applications

April 14, 2008

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Sanjay Jain, Yung-Tsun T. Lee

The effective use of modeling, simulation, and analysis (MSA) applications could greatly enhance our ability to carry out the homeland security mission. These...

EFFECT OF SCANNING DENSITY ON THE ACCURACY OF LOCATING SPHERE CENTERS FOR REGISTRATION

April 9, 2008

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek

Applications for 3D imaging systems (e.g., laser scanners) have increased significantly in the past decade. Data from such systems often require registration...

Spatial Interpolation Algorithm for Error Concealment

April 9, 2008

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi, Shaoshuai Gao

In this paper, we propose a new spatial interpolation algorithm for Intra-Frame error concealment. The method aims at interpolating areas in the image, which...

PERFORMANCE OF SEISMIC MOMENT RESISTING CONNECTIONS UNDER COLUMN REMOVAL SCENARIO

April 9, 2008

Author(s)

Fahim Sadek, Hai S. Lew, Joseph A. Main, John L. Gross

Beam-to-column moment connections in steel frame construction have been studied extensively for seismic applications. However, the behavior of such connections...

Clustering Characteristics of Millimeter Wave Indoor Channels

April 8, 2008

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Behnam Neekzad, John Baras

Temporal-Angular channel sounding measurements of an indoor millimeter wave channel (60 GHz) is analyzed to determine whether ray arrivals at the receiver form...

A Layered Approach to Semantic Similarity Analysis of XML Schemas

April 7, 2008

Author(s)

Jaewook Kim, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Albert W. Jones

One of the most critical steps to integrating heterogeneous e-Business applications using different XML schemas is schema mapping, which is known to be costly...

Procedures for the Decontamination of Building Plumbing Systems

April 7, 2008

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado, Mark A. Kedzierski, V. J. Gallardo

This paper presents a discussion of methods for decontaminating building plumbing systems and restoring them to safe operation, based on generic contaminant...

Status and Recent Trends in Cryocooler Research

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Ray Radebaugh

The five types of cryocoolers used to provide cryogenic temperatures for various applications are the Joule-Thomson, Brayton, Stirling, Gifford-McMahon, and...

Monitoring Alignment of Osteoblast Cells Directed by Gradient Nanopatterns

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Jirun Sun, Yifu Ding, Nancy J. Lin, Hyun Wook Ro, Christopher L. Soles, Sheng Lin-Gibson

We investigated the behavior of pre-osteoblasts cultured on polystyrene and photopolymerized ethoxylated bisphenol-A dimethacrylate gradient patterns. Gradient...

Contaminant Dispersal in Obstructed Flow

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Nicos Martys, Stephen J. Treado

Energy Systems Management and Greenhouse Gas Reduction

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado, David G. Holmberg

The efficient use of energy provides the double benefits of controlling both energy costs and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The industrial sector comprises...

Quantifying Interfacial Adhesion in Transfer Printing via a Cantilever Peel Test

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Jiong Liu, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford

Transfer printing has been demonstrated as a fabrication method for flexible organic electronics. The transfer printing process relies on the differential...

JKR Adhesion Measurements at Layer-by-Layer and Polymer Brush Functionalized Surfaces

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Adam J. Nolte, Heqing Huang, Christopher Stafford

In developing and screening new materials, researchers are often interested in how factors such as the roughness, surface energy, and the chemical composition...

Measuring the Modulus of Hydrated Contact Lenses via Surface Wrinkling

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Jun Y. Chung, Young Jong Lee, Peyton Hopson, Michael J. Fasolka, Christopher Stafford

One of the most important considerations in the evaluation of hydrogels for biomedical and contact lens applications is the elastic modulus. The elastic modulus...

Harnessing Wrinkling Instabilities for Advanced Measurements of Polymeric Thin Films

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Jun Y. Chung, Rui Huang, Christopher Stafford

Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize a growing set of materials applications ranging from electronics to drug delivery to ballistic protection. However, the...

Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Brushes from PDMS Surfaces

April 6, 2008

Author(s)

Heqing Huang, Adam J. Nolte, Jun Y. Chung, Christopher Stafford

In recent years, poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) has found increased application in the areas of microfluidic devices, chromatographic packing materials and...

TOWARDS A TEST METHOD FOR HYDROGEN SENSOR PERFORMANCE

April 2, 2008

Author(s)

Nathan D. Marsh, Thomas G. Cleary

As part of an effort to develop standard test methods for the performance of commercial hydrogen sensors, we employed the Fire Emulator / Detector Evaluator, an...

Measurement of Effective Temperature Range of Fire Service Thermal Imaging Cameras

April 1, 2008

Author(s)

Francine K. Amon, Nelson P. Bryner

The use of thermal imaging cameras (TIC) by the fire service is increasing as firefighters become more aware of the value of these tools. The National Fire...

HYDROGEN PIPELINE RESEARCH AT NIST

March 31, 2008

Author(s)

Thomas A. Siewert, Joseph D. McColskey, Angelique N. Lasseigne

In 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology greatly expanded its efforts in support of the use of hydrogen as a fuel. Various NIST divisions...

Quantize-and-Forward Relaying with M-ary Phase Shift Keying

March 31, 2008

Author(s)

Michael R. Souryal, Huiqing You

Using cooperative transmission, two or more single-antenna users can share their antennas to achieve spatial diversity in a slow fading channel. One relaying...

The CLEAR 2007 Evaluation

March 31, 2008

Author(s)

Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, R Bowers, Richard T. Rose, Martial Michel, John S. Garofolo

This paper is a summary of the 2007 CLEAR Evaluation on the Classification of Events, Activities, and Relationships which took place in early 2007 and...

Borrowing from Video Games: Impacts on Visual Analytic Tools for Collaboration Among Digital Native Intelligence Analysts

March 28, 2008

Author(s)

Theresa O'Connell, Yee-Yin Choong, John D. Grantham, M Moriarty, W Wong

An investigation of collaboration during a game that drew elements from two types of video games, massively multiplayer online role-playing games and serious...

Comparison of Measurement Techniques for Advanced Photomask Metrology

March 24, 2008

Author(s)

Stewart Smith, Martin McCallum, Andrew Hourd, J. T. Stevenson, Anthony J. Walton, Ronald G. Dixson, Richard A. Allen, James E. Potzick, Michael W. Cresswell, Ndubuisi George Orji

Towards Accurate Feature Shape Metrology

March 22, 2008

Author(s)

Ndubuisi G. Orji, Ronald G. Dixson, B Bunday, J Allgair

Over the last few years, the need for shape metrology for process control has increased. A key component of shape metrology is sidewall angle (SWA). However...

Performance Evaluation of Cost-Based vs. Fuzzy-Logic-Based Prediction Approaches in PRIDE

March 20, 2008

Author(s)

Zeid Kootbally, Craig I. Schlenoff, Rajmohan Madhavan, Sebti Foufou

PRIDE (PRediction In Dynamic Environments) is a hierarchical multi-resolutional framework for moving object prediction. PRIDE incorporates multiple prediction...

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