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Conferences

Improved Attacks for Characteristic-2 Parameters of the Cubic ABC Simple Matrix Encryption Scheme

June 28, 2017

Author(s)

Dustin Moody, Ray A. Perlner, Daniel C. Smith-Tone

In the last few years multivariate public key cryptography has experienced an infusion of new ideas for encryption. Among these new strategies is the ABC Simple...

Smart Production Systems: Architecture and Application to multi-job manufacturing

June 28, 2017

Author(s)

Pooya Alavian, Peter O. Denno, Semyon Meerkov

Smart Production Systems (SPS) are manufacturing systems capable of self-diagnosing and providing the operation management with an advice concerning performance...

Semantic Preserving Bijective Mappings of Mathematical Formulae between Word Processors and Computer Algebra Systems

June 28, 2017

Author(s)

Howard S. Cohl, Bonita V. Saunders, Marjorie A. McClain, Moritz Schubotz, Joon Bang, Juergen Gerhardt, Andre Greiner Petter

There are many different approaches to represent mathematical expressions on computers. Word processors like LaTeX offer the ability to render mathematical...

Part-of-Math Tagging and Applications

June 28, 2017

Author(s)

Abdou S. Youssef

Much of the mathematical literature, old and new, is online and mostly in natural-language form. Therefore, math content processing presents some of the same...

A Novel Adaptive Transmission Algorithm for Device-to-Device Direct Discovery

June 27, 2017

Author(s)

Aziza Ben Mosbah, David W. Griffith, Richard A. Rouil

In this paper we study and improve one service used for Proximity Services and Device-to-Device (D2D) communications: D2D Direct Discovery. As defined in the...

Analytical description of charged grain boundary recombination in polycrystalline thin film solar cells

June 26, 2017

Author(s)

Benoit H. Gaury, Paul M. Haney

We present analytic expressions for the dark current-voltage relation of a pn+ junction with a positively charged columnar grain boundary, containing a...

Analytic description of the impact of grain boundaries on Voc

June 26, 2017

Author(s)

Paul M. Haney, Benoit H. Gaury

The impact of grain boundaries on the performance of polycrsytalline photovoltaics remains an open question. We present a simplified description of dark grain...

Identifying High Resource Consumption Supply Chain Points: A Case Study in Automobile Production

June 26, 2017

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Anand M. Kandaswamy, Joshua D. Kneifel

The Pareto principle posits that roughly 80 % of a problem is due to 20 % of the causes, allowing for the targeting of specific efficiency solutions. This paper...

UV scale calibration transfer from an improved pyroelectric detector standard to field UV-A meters and 365 nm excitation sources

June 25, 2017

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, P. Yvonne Barnes, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov

Calibration of the emitted radiation from UV sources, peaking at 365 nm, is necessary to perform the ASTM required 1 mW/cm^2 minimum irradiance in certain...

Optimizing image-based patterned defect inspection through FDTD simulations at multiple ultraviolet wavelengths

June 25, 2017

Author(s)

Bryan Barnes, Hui Zhou, Mark-Alexander Henn, Martin Sohn, Richard M. Silver

The sizes of non-negligible defects in the patterning of a semiconductor device continue to decrease as the dimensions for these devices are reduced. These...

Measurement of process dynamics through coaxially aligned high speed NIR imaging in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

June 23, 2017

Author(s)

Jason C. Fox, Brandon M. Lane, Ho Yeung

Securing Networks Against Unpatchable and Unknown Vulnerabilities Using Hetrogeneous Hardening Options

June 22, 2017

Author(s)

Daniel Borbor, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal

The administrators of a mission critical network usually have to worry about non-traditional threats, e.g., how to live with known, but unpatchable...

Towards Actionable Mission Impact Assessment in the Context of Cloud Computing

June 22, 2017

Author(s)

Xiaoyan Sun, Anoop Singhal, Peng Liu

Today's cyber-attacks towards enterprise networks often undermine and even fail the mission assurance of victim networks. Mission cyber resilience (or active...

A Testbed to Verify Timing Behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems

June 18, 2017

Author(s)

Aviral Shrivastava, Mohammad Khayatian, Mohammadreza Mehrabian, Hugo A. Andrade, Patricia Derler, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Edward Griffor, Marc A. Weiss, John Eidson, Kevin Stanton

Time is a foundational aspect of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Correct time and timing of system events is critical to optimized responsiveness to the...

Simultaneous Neutron and X-Ray Imaging of 3D Kerogen and Fracture Structure in Shales

June 17, 2017

Author(s)

Wei-Shan NMN Chiang, Jacob M LaManna, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Yun Liu, Jilin Zhang, Daniel T. Georgi, Jin-hong Chen

Hydrocarbon production from shales using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has been the key development in US energy industry in the past decade and...

Event Nugget and Event Coreference Annotation

June 17, 2017

Author(s)

Zhiyi Song, Ann Bies, Stephanie Strassel, Teruko Mitamura, Hoa T. Dang, Joe Ellis, Sue Holm, Yakari Yamakawa

In this paper, we describe the event nugget annotation created in support of the pilot Event Nugget Detection evaluation in 2014 and in support of the Event...

Parametric amplification of acoustically-excited micromechanical oscillators using fringing electrostatic fields

June 16, 2017

Author(s)

Lulinski Stella, Shmilovich Tsvi, Robert Ilic, Slava Krylov

We present an experimental demonstration of parametric amplification of acoustically-excited bulk micromachined single-crystal silicon cantilevers. We used...

Smart Manufacturing Systems based on Cyber-physical Manufacturing Services (CPMS)

June 15, 2017

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Feng Ju

The future of manufacturing lies in being smart capable of agilely adapting to a wide variety of changing conditions. To enable an agile manufacturing system...

Calibration of spectral responsivity of IR detectors in the range from 0.6 µm to 24 µm

June 15, 2017

Author(s)

Vyacheslav B. Podobedov, George P. Eppeldauer, Leonard M. Hanssen, Thomas C. Larason

We report the upgraded performance of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) facility for spectral responsivity calibrations of infrared (IR)...

Progress on Single Photon Detector Efficiency Calibrations at NIST

June 14, 2017

Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, John H. Lehman, Alan Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Igor Vayshenker, Chih-Ming Wang

We report on our progress towards implementing a measurement service aimed at the calibration of single-photon detectors. We present how our calibration is tied...

The inescapable relativity of explicitly represented knowledge: an FCA perspective

June 14, 2017

Author(s)

David W. Flater

Knowledge models are supposed to capture knowledge of lasting value in a reusable form. However, reuse of these models is hampered by arbitrary and application...

Implementation and Validation of an LTE D2D Model for ns-3

June 13, 2017

Author(s)

Richard A. Rouil, Fernando J. Cintron, Aziza Ben Mosbah, Samantha M. Gamboa Quintiliani

The ability to perform device-to-device (D2D) communication in Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based cellular networks became possible with the introduction of...

Towards Identifying the Elements of a Minimum Information Model for Use in a Model-Based Definition

June 13, 2017

Author(s)

Alexandar M. Miller, Nathan W. Hartman, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr., Allison Barnard Feeney, Jesse Zahner

The concept of Model-Based Definition (MBD) is being integrated into manufacturing companies in a variety of industries. Companies benefit from enhanced...

Metrologies for Performance of Impact Mitigating Materials

June 12, 2017

Author(s)

Aaron Forster, Michael Riley

Soft non-linear materials are used to mitigate energy transfer between objects during high rate or frequency events. These impact mitigating materials (IMM) are...

Characteristics of Firebrands Collected from Urban Fire -Niigata Fire, December 22nd 2016

June 12, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Poster presentation; see file.

Progress in Modeling Wildland Fires using Computational Fluid Dynamics

June 12, 2017

Author(s)

Kevin B. McGrattan

This paper presents a sensitivity study for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of grassland fires. The simulations are compared with the results of...

EXPERIMENTS TO PROVIDE THE SCIENTIFIC-BASIS FOR LABORATORY STANDARD TEST METHODS FOR FIREBRAND EXPOSURE

June 12, 2017

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities in numerous countries on several...

Fabrication of High-Speed and High-Density Single-Flux-Quantum Circuits at NIST

June 11, 2017

Author(s)

David Olaya, Paul Dresselhaus, Pete Hopkins, Samuel P. Benz

The development of a fabrication process for single-flux-quantum (SFQ) digital circuits is a fundamental part of the NIST effort to develop a gigahertz waveform...

Scalable, High-Speed, Digital Single-Flux-Quantum Circuits at NIST

June 11, 2017

Author(s)

Pete Hopkins, Manuel Castellanos Beltran, Christine A. Donnelly, Paul Dresselhaus, David Olaya, Adam Sirois, Samuel P. Benz

We describe NIST's capabilities for designing and fabricating niobium-based single-flux quantum (SFQ) digital and mixed-signal circuits and show test results of...

Integrating Finite Element Analysis with Systems Engineering Models

June 11, 2017

Author(s)

Jerome Szarazi, Axel Reichwein, Conrad Bock

In order to promote traceability, consistency, interoperability and better collaboration between systems engineering and Finite Element Analysis (FEA)-based...

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