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Conferences

Design-for-Cost An Approach for Distributed Manufacturing Cost Estimation

September 2, 2019

Author(s)

Minchul Lee, Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Researches have shown that design changes cost more in later stages of product development. Therefore, companies adopt Design-for-X methods to optimize product...

Towards Fog Network Utility Maximization (FoNUM) for Managing Fog Computing Resources

September 2, 2019

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

Fog computing is an emerging architecture, which extends the Cloud computing paradigm to the edge of the network, enabling new applications and services...

The Interfacial Zone Around Nanoparticles in Polymer Nanocomposites

September 2, 2019

Author(s)

Jack F. Douglas, Beatriz Betancourt, Fernando Vargas-Lara, Francis W. Starr, Wengang Zhang

We perform coarse-grained simulations of model nanoparticles having a diameter on the order of 10 nm in an unentangled polymer matrix in the limit of low...

Applications with a Rydberg Atom-based Radio Frequency Antenna/Receiver

September 2, 2019

Author(s)

Matthew T. Simons, Abdulaziz H. Haddab, Joshua A. Gordon, Christopher L. Holloway

We discuss several recent extensions of quantum radio frequency (RF) electric field sensors to antenna/receiver applications. These Rydberg atom-based sensors...

Searching for best Karatsuba recurrences

September 1, 2019

Author(s)

Cagdas Calik, Morris Dworkin, Nathan Dykas, Rene Peralta

Efficient circuits for multiplication of binary polynomials use what are known as Karatsuba recurrences. These methods divide the polynomials of size kn into k...

The Effect of Peripheral Equipment Loading on Reverberation-Chamber Metrics

September 1, 2019

Author(s)

Anouk Hubrechsen, Laurens A. Bronckers, Kate Remley, Rob Jones, Rob Horansky, Ad Reniers, Anne Roc'h, Bart Smolders

Measuring wireless devices in a reverberation chamber often requires ancillary equipment to be present in the chamber. This paper illustrates the effect of...

Application of the Fog Computing Paradigm to Additive Manufacturing Process Monitoring and Control

August 31, 2019

Author(s)

Muhammad Adnan, Yan Lu, Albert T. Jones, Fan Tien Cheng

Monitoring and controlling Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes play a critical role in enabling the production of quality parts. Different from the...

Asynchronous Distributed Matrix Balancing and Application to Suppressing Epidemic

August 29, 2019

Author(s)

Van Sy Mai, Abdella Battou

Scientific Statement Classification over arXiv.org

August 29, 2019

Author(s)

Bruce R. Miller, Deyan Ginev

We introduce a new classification task for scientific statements and release a large-scale dataset for supervised learning. Our resource is derived from a...

Integrated Operations Management for Distributed Manufacturing

August 28, 2019

Author(s)

Timothy A. Sprock, Michael E. Sharp, William Z. Bernstein, Michael P. Brundage, Moneer M. Helu, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr.

In traditional manufacturing operations management systems, the four pillars of ISA-95 (production, quality, maintenance, inventory) are each implemented as...

Securing, Authenticating, and Visualizing Data-Links for Manufacturing Enterprises

August 26, 2019

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Sylvere Krima, Laetitia Monnier, Mehdi Shahid

We introduce a prototype implementation of the Securing and Authenticating Data-Links (SADL) Interface, which interacts with a manufacturing handle registry to...

Advanced Sensor and Target Development to Support Robot Accuracy Degradation Assessment

August 25, 2019

Author(s)

Guixiu Qiao

This paper presents a vision-based 6 degree of freedom (DOF) measurement system that can measure robot dynamic motions in real-time. A motorized target is...

Thermodynamics of the New Refrigerants

August 24, 2019

Author(s)

Mark O. McLinden

As the refrigeration industry moves towards low-GWP refrigerants the number of acceptable refrigerants is decreasing due to new environmental constraints, but...

Using Semantic Fluency Models Improves Network Reconstruction Accuracy of Tacit Engineering Knowledge

August 23, 2019

Author(s)

Thurston B. Sexton, Mark Fuge

Human- or expert-generated records that describe the behavior of engineered systems over a period of time can be useful for statistical learning techniques like...

Knowledge Extraction for Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Test Vectors by Means of Combinatorial Coverage Measurement

August 23, 2019

Author(s)

Dimitris Simos, Bernhard Garn, Ludwig Kampel, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker

We present a combinatorial coverage measurement analysis for test vectors provided by the NIST Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP), and in...

Measuring Water Flow Rate in a Flexible Fire Hose using an Accelerometer

August 21, 2019

Author(s)

Christopher U. Brown, Gregory W. Vogl, Wai Cheong Tam

Modeling a Supply Chain Reference Ontology Based on a Top-Level Ontology

August 19, 2019

Author(s)

Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Farhad Ameri

Several ontologies have been introduced in the domain of supply chain over the past decade with the promise of enabling a true supply chain interoperability...

A Standardized Representation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Reliable Deployment of Machine Learning Models in the Manufacturing Industry

August 18, 2019

Author(s)

Max K. Ferguson, Seongwoon Jeong, Kincho H. Law, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Svetlana Levitan, Jena Tridivesh, Yung-Tsun Lee

The use of deep convolutional neural networks is becoming increasingly popular in the engineering and manufacturing sectors. However, managing the distribution...

A Review Of Machine Learning Applications In Additive Manufacturing

August 17, 2019

Author(s)

Saadia A. Razvi, Shaw C. Feng, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Yung-Tsun Lee, Paul Witherell

Variability in product quality continues to pose a major barrier to the widespread application of additive manufacturing (AM) processes in production...

TOWARDS EFFICIENT THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION ON PATH LEVEL

August 15, 2019

Author(s)

Paul W. Witherell

As a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology to produce metallic parts, powder bed fusion (PBF) is driven by a moving heat source. Thermal simulation...

Towards Cross-Layer Optimization of Virtualized Radio Access Networks

August 15, 2019

Author(s)

Vladimir Marbukh, Kamran Sayrafian, Behnam Rouzbehani, Luis Correia

This paper proposes an approach to cross-layer optimization of virtualized Radio Access Network resources in future mobile communications. Assuming that the...

Perceptions of Smart Home Privacy and Security Responsibility, Concerns, and Mitigations

August 10, 2019

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Susanne M. Furman, Mary Theofanos, Yasemin Acar Fahl

Smart home devices are increasingly being used by nontechnical users who have little understanding of the technology, including privacy and security...

SCAP Composer: A DITA Open Toolkit Plug-in for Packaging Security Content

August 9, 2019

Author(s)

Joshua Lubell

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) schema for source data stream collections standardizes the requirements for packaging Extensible Markup Language...

A cascaded interface to connect quantum memory, quantum computing and quantum transmission frequencies

August 7, 2019

Author(s)

Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang

We implement a cascaded interface connecting three essential frequencies for quantum communications including 1540-nm for long-distance transmission, 895-nm for...

Determining Forensic Data Requirements for Detecting Hypervisor Attacks

August 7, 2019

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Duminda Wijesekera

Hardware/Server virtualization is a key feature of data centers used for cloud computing services and enterprise computing that enables ubiquitous access to...

Measuring Temperature Distribution in Steel-Concrete Composite Slabs Subjected to Fire Using Brillouin Scattering Based Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors

August 7, 2019

Author(s)

Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Bundy, Genda Chen

This study investigates temperature distributions in steel-concrete composite slabs subjected to fire using distributed fiber optic sensors. Several 1.2 m x 0.9...

Engineered Sulfur-MoS2-Graphene Heterostructure Cathodes for Diagnostics of Nanoscale Electrochemical Processes in High Energy Density Li-S Batteries

August 5, 2019

Author(s)

Vladimir P. Oleshko, William R. McGehee, Saya Takeuchi, Siyuan Zhang, Andrei A. Kolmakov, Jabez J. McClelland, Christopher L. Soles

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have recently attracted enormous attention because of high theoretical specific energy (2600 Wh kg-1) and high specific capacity...

A Workflow for Imaging 2D Materials using 4D STEM-in-SEM

August 4, 2019

Author(s)

Benjamin W. Caplins, Ryan M. White, Jason D. Holm, Robert R. Keller

Thermal Decomposition of Vegetative Fuels

July 31, 2019

Author(s)

Isaac T. Leventon, Morgan C. Bruns

The Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL): Schema and Metaschema

July 30, 2019

Author(s)

Wendell A. Piez

The Information Technology Lab at NIST is developing technical standards for documentation related to systems security. The Open Security Controls Assessment...

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