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Conferences

Design and Implementation of a Reactor Safety System Digital Upgrade, Normal Air Radiation Monitor

February 9, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel A. Mattes, Dagistan Sahin

NBSR Virtual Reality Training Simulator

February 9, 2019

Author(s)

Dagistan Sahin, Kirill Stakhovsky, Omar Cavazos

A programmable dark-field detector for imaging two-dimensional materials in the scanning electron microscope

February 7, 2019

Author(s)

Benjamin W. Caplins, Jason D. Holm, Robert R. Keller

Unit cell orientation information is encoded in electron diffraction patterns of crystalline materials. Traditional transmission electron detectors implemented...

A Layered Graphical Model for Cloud Forensic and Mission Impact Analysis

February 1, 2019

Author(s)

Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera

In this paper, we describe a layered graphical model to analyze the impact of cyber attacks on business processes and services. Our model has three layers: the...

Parallel Self-Testing of the GHZ State with a Proof by Diagrams

January 31, 2019

Author(s)

Spencer J. Breiner, Amir Kalev, Carl Miller

Quantum self-testing addresses the following question: is it possible to verify the existence of a multipartite state even when one's measurement devices are...

Rethinking Timekeeping for Modern IT Solutions

January 28, 2019

Author(s)

Son VoBa, Charles L. Ulland, Michael Lombardi, Arno Lentfer

Advances in processor performance and virtualization technologies, together with complexities of operating systems (OS) and software defined networking, have...

A Method-Level Test Generation Framework for Debugging Big Data Applications

January 24, 2019

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker, David R. Kuhn, Huadong Feng, Yu J. Lei

Big data applications are now widely used to process massive amounts of data we create every day. When a failure occurs in a big data application, debugging at...

A Method Level Test Generation Framework for Debugging Big Data Applications

January 24, 2019

Author(s)

Huadong Feng, Jagan Chandrasekaran, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn

When a failure occurs in a big data application, debugging with the original dataset can be difficult due to the large amount of data being processed. This...

Three-Port Vector-Network-Analyzer Calibrations using the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework

January 18, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey Jargon, Dylan Williams, Aric Sanders

We developed methods for calibrating three-port vector network analyzers (VNAs) and propagating correlated uncertainties using the NIST Microwave Uncertainty...

An Ultra-fast Multi-level MoTe2-based RRAM

January 17, 2019

Author(s)

Albert Davydov, Leonid A. Bendersky, Sergiy Krylyuk, Huairuo Zhang, Feng Zhang, Joerg Appenzeller, Pragya R. Shrestha, Kin P. Cheung, Jason P. Campbell

We report multi-level MoTe2-based resistive random-access memory (RRAM) devices with switching speeds of less than 5 ns due to an electric-field induced 2H to...

MFC Datasets: Large-Scale Benchmark Datasets for Media Forensic Challenge Evaluation

January 11, 2019

Author(s)

Haiying Guan, Mark Kozak, Eric Robertson, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Andrew Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Jeff Smith, Jonathan G. Fiscus

We provide a benchmark for digital media forensic challenge evaluations. A series of datasets are used to assess the progress and deeply analyze the performance...

V3C -- a Research Video Collection

January 10, 2019

Author(s)

George M. Awad, Asad A. Butt, Luca Rossetto, Heiko Schuldt

With the widespread use of smartphones as recording devices and the massive growth in bandwidth, the number and volume of video collections has increased...

Characterization of graphene conductance using a microwave cavity

January 9, 2019

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Keith White, Yanfei Yang, Randolph Elmquist

Surface conductance of graphene films is investigated in a non-contact microwave cavity operating at 7.4543 GHz. This cavity technique characterizes specimens...

An Overset Mesh Framework for an Isentropic ALE Navier-Stokes HDG Formulation

January 6, 2019

Author(s)

Justin A. Kauffman, William L. George, Jonathan S. Pitt

Fluid-structure interaction simulations where solid bodies undergo large deformations require special handling of the mesh motion for Arbitrarily Lagrangian...

Uncertainty Quantification of Failure Probability and a Dynamic Risk Analysis of Decision Making for Maintenance of Ageing Infrastructure

January 2, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, James J. Filliben, Nathanael A. Heckert, Dennis D. Leber, Paul A. Berkman, Robert E. Chapman

Risk, as the product of failure probability and failure consequence, has been estimated and applied by engineers and managers to help make critical decisions on...

Nonlinear Response of Silicon Solar Cells

January 1, 2019

Author(s)

Behrang H. Hamadani, Andrew M. Shore, Howard W. Yoon, Mark Campanelli

We used an LED-array-based combinatorial flux addition method to explore the wavelength and the intensity-dependence of the spectral responsivity in silicon...

On the use of time-resolved 3D diagnostics to characterize firebrand showers in the WUI

January 1, 2019

Author(s)

Nicolas Bouvet, Eric D. Link, Stephen A. Fink, Erica D. Kuligowski

NIST is currently developing a time-resolved, three-dimensional particle tracking and sizing diagnostic (a.k.a an emberometer) that will be applied to...

Improving Rigid-Body Registration Based on Points Affected by Bias and Noise

December 31, 2018

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine S. Cheok

The task of registering two coordinate frames is frequently accomplished by measuring the same set of points in both frames. Noise and possible bias in the...

Near-Surface Elemental Analysis of Solids by Neutron Depth Profiling

December 31, 2018

Author(s)

Jamie Weaver, Robert Gregory Downing

Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) is an analytical nuclear technique for the determination of elemental mass as a function of depth into a sample's surface. It is...

Impact of Measurement Points Distribution on the Parameters of UWB Implant Channel Model

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Sofia Perez-Simbor, Katjana Krhac, Concepcion GarciaPardo, Dina Simunic, Narcis Cardona

Sophisticated medical implants that allow vital information delivery to/from the human body are opening the door to novel approaches in diagnosis and/or therapy...

Toward a New Mathematical Definition of Datums in Standards to Support Advanced Manufacturing

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Craig M. Shakarji, Vijay Srinivasan

Recent advances in the digitization of manufacturing have prompted ASME and ISO standards committees to reexamine the definition of datums. Any new definition...

A Study of Capsule Endoscopy Orientation Estimation Using Received Signal Strength

December 20, 2018

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Katjana Krhac, Mehdi Alasti, Kamya Yazdandoost, Dina Simunic

Comprehensive study of wireless communication for ingestible electronics is a very challenging task. To initiate the study on wireless capsule endoscopy, an...

ENABLING CONTROL SYSTEM AND CLOUD-BASED SIMULATION SERVICE INTEROPERABILITY

December 12, 2018

Author(s)

Albert W. Jones, Guodong Shao, Frank H. Riddick

The latest innovations in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will change manufacturing and simulation forever. Ideas such as Industry 4.0...

DIGITAL MANUFACTURING: REQUIREMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL SURROGATES

December 12, 2018

Author(s)

Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira

A key challenge for many manufacturers today is efficiently producing and delivering their products on time. Issues include demand for customized products...

Exact Moments of Mutual Information of Jacobi MIMO Channels in High-SNR Regime

December 10, 2018

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In this paper, we propose an analytical framework to derive all positive integer moments of MIMO mutual information in high-SNR regime. The approach is based on...

COMPARISON OF DATA ANALYTICS APPROACHES USING SIMULATION

December 9, 2018

Author(s)

Sanjay Jain, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Yung-Tsun Lee

Selecting the right data analytics (DA) approach for an application is rather complex. Obtaining sufficient and right kind of data for evaluating these...

Enabling Fixtureless Assemblies in Human-Robot Collaborative Workcells by Reducing Uncertainty in the Part Pose Estimate

December 6, 2018

Author(s)

Nithyananda Kumbla, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

This paper presents an automated part localization technique for performing fixtureless assembly operations in a human-robot collaborative workcell. The main...

Mass Calibration at NIST in the Revised SI

December 1, 2018

Author(s)

Patrick J. Abbott

A Possible Advantage of Using Bi-directional S-Parameters in Antenna Measurements

November 30, 2018

Author(s)

Alex Yuffa, Ronald C. Wittmann, Michael H. Francis, Josh Gordon, David R. Novotny

the unknown-thru calibration technique is being used to achieve a system level calibration at milli-meter frequencies (>50 GHz) on the robotic ranges at NIST...

Gradient-Based Solution of Maximum Likelihood Angle Estimation for Virtual Array Measurements

November 28, 2018

Author(s)

Peter G. Vouras

This paper derives a gradient based implementation of maximum likelihood angle estimation for virtual planar arrays used to sound millimeter wave channels.

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