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Conferences

Online Airtightness Calculator for the US, Canada and China

December 15, 2016

Author(s)

Som Shrestha, Lisa Ng, Steven Emmerich, Diana Hun, Laverne Dalgleish

The contribution of air leakage to heating and cooling loads has been increasing as the thermal resistance of building envelopes continues to improve. Easy-to...

Event model to facilitate data sharing among services

December 12, 2016

Author(s)

Olivera Kotevska, Judith R. Gelernter

Development of smart city services is presently hindered because the data is too heterogeneous, despite the increasing availability of data in open data...

STANDARDS SUPPORTING SIMULATIONS OF SMART MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

December 12, 2016

Author(s)

Conrad Bock, Guodong Shao, Kevin W. Lyons, Ronay Ak, KC Morris, Bjoern J. Johansson

Manufacturing standards provide the means for industries to effectively and consistently deploy methodologies and technologies to assess process performance...

Interoperability Test for IEEE C37.118 Standard-based Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs)

December 12, 2016

Author(s)

Gerald J. FitzPatrick, Yuyin Song

Abstract Phasor measurement units (PMUs) provide real-time synchrophasor data and good situational awareness of power grid, and could be used to take...

Towards Cross-Layer Design of Communication Network for Smart Grid with Real-Time Pricing

December 12, 2016

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

The efficiency of the emerging smart power grid infrastructure critically depends on the ability of the communication network to deliver real-time energy prices...

STANDARDS BASED GENERATION OF A VIRTUAL FACTORY MODEL

December 11, 2016

Author(s)

Sanjay Jain, David Lechevalier

Development of manufacturing simulation models usually requires experts with knowledge of multiple areas including manufacturing, modeling, and simulation...

Towards Energy Efficiency in Ultra Dense Networks

December 11, 2016

Author(s)

Wei Yu, Hansong Xu, Amirshahram Hematian, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie

The Ultra Dense Network (UDN), as a key enabler for future wireless networks (such as 5G), is comprised of a massive number of small cells in the network...

Elucidating the Electronic Properties of Colloidally-Synthesized 2D Nanoelectronic Device Components

December 9, 2016

Author(s)

Adam J. Biacchi, Son T. Le, Brian G. Alberding, Joseph A. Hagmann, Edwin J. Heilweil, Curt A. Richter, Angela R. Hight Walker

Towards Systemic Risk Aware Engineering of Large-Scale Networks: Complex Systems Perspective

December 8, 2016

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

This paper proposes a framework for systemic risk aware engineering of large-scale networks. Economics drives two major evolutionary trends in networked system...

Kicking the Tires of the NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework,

December 8, 2016

Author(s)

Ronald A. Ginley

As with anything new, especially metrology tools, you want to know how good the new tool is. This is generally done through comparisons with existing systems...

Atomically precise device fabrication

December 7, 2016

Author(s)

Joseph A. Hagmann, Xiqiao Wang, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Richard M. Silver, Curt A. Richter

An improved capacity to control matter at the atomic scale is central to the advancement of nanotechnology. The complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)...

Do We Trust Image Measurements? Variability, Accuracy and Traceability of Image Features

December 7, 2016

Author(s)

Mylene Simon, Joe Chalfoun, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady

The paper addresses the problem of traceability and variability of image features used in a plethora of image-based scientific studies. Image features are...

When "Optimal Filtering" Isn't

December 7, 2016

Author(s)

Joseph Fowler, Bradley Alpert, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, James P. Hays-Wehle, Young I. Joe, Kelsey Morgan, Galen O'Neil, Joel Ullom, Dan Schmidt, Daniel Swetz

The so-called ''optimal filter'' analysis of a microcalorimeter's x-ray pulses is statistically optimal only if all pulses have the same shape, regardless of...

Photo-Induced Magnetic Field Effects in Single Crystalline Tetracene Field-Effect Transistors

December 7, 2016

Author(s)

Hyuk-Jae Jang, Emily G. Bittle, David J. Gundlach, Curt A. Richter, Qin Zhang

Radiated Power Based on Wave Parameters at Millimeter-wave Frequencies for Integrated Wireless Devices

December 7, 2016

Author(s)

Damir Senic, Kate Remley, Dylan Williams, Diogo Ribeiro, Chih-Ming Wang, Christopher L. Holloway

We provide total radiated power measurements at millimeter-wave frequencies using a reverberation chamber and a power-calibrated vector network analyzer capable...

Enriching and purifying silicon epilayers for quantum information

December 6, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua M. Pomeroy, Kevin J. Dwyer, Ke Tang, Hyun S. Kim, Aruna N. Ramanayaka, David S. Simons

High quality, enriched silicon contains an exceptionally low density of defects and unpaired electron and nuclear spins that allow candidate qubits (single...

Use Case Development to Advance Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics in Manufacturing Operations

December 6, 2016

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss, Moneer Helu, Gregory W. Vogl, Guixiu Qiao

Manufacturing operations suffer from degradation as equipment and processes are continually used to generate products. The development and integration of...

Distributed Control and Communications for Grid Systems

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

A major problem of the grid system is identifying the source of abnormal behaviors. It is particularly important to identify the areas in which the grid system...

Rethinking Charge trapping and detrapping dynamic without the sheet-charge approximation

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

Kin (Charles) Cheung, Jason Campbell, Dmitry Veksler

Charge-trapping/detrapping are common occurrences that affect MOSFET performance and reliability. To understand a broad range of MOSFET phenomena, we need to...

Evaluation-Driven Research in Data Science: Leveraging Cross-Field Methodologies

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

Bonnie J. Dorr, Peter C. Fontana, Craig S. Greenberg, Marion Le Bras, Mark A. Przybocki

Evaluation of a PMML-Based GPR Scoring Engine on a Cloud Platform and Microcomputer Board for Smart Manufacturing

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Max Ferguson, Kincho H. Law, Jinkyoo Park, Raunak Bhinge

The use of data-driven predictive models is becoming increasingly popular in engineering and manufacturing sectors. This paper discusses the deployment of...

A Secure Multicast Group Management and Key Distribution in IEEE 802.21

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

Yoshikazu Hanatani, Naoki Ogura, Yoshihiro Ohba, Lidong Chen, Subir Das

Controlling a large number of devices such as sensors and smart end points, is always a challenge where scalability and security are indispensa-ble. This is...

Optimizing the UE Transmission Probability for D2D Direct Discovery

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

David W. Griffith, Fiona Z. Lyons

We develop an analytical model to examine the effect of the transmission probability on type~1 direct discovery in Device-to-Device (D2D) Long Term Evolution...

Wideband Spectrum Reconstruction with Multicoset Sub-Nyquist Sampling and Collision Classification

December 3, 2016

Author(s)

Raied Caromi, Jae-Kark Choi, Wen-Bin Yang, Michael R. Souryal

This paper proposes an improved method for reconstructing wideband sparse spectrum. We utilize a multicoset setup based on time delay. The simple multicoset...

Pathloss Models for Indoor Hotspot Deployment at 83.5 GHz

December 3, 2016

Author(s)

Camillo Gentile, Jelena Senic, Peter B. Papazian, Jae-Kark Choi, Kate Remley

Conventional pathloss models are based on the received power from an omnidirectional antenna. Millimeter-wave receivers, conversely, will feature highly...

An Open Web-Based Repository for Capturing Manufacturing Process Information

December 1, 2016

Author(s)

William Z. Bernstein, Mahesh Mani, Katherine C. Morris, Kevin W. Lyons, Bjoern J. Johansson

With recent progress in developing more effective models for representing manufacturing processes, this paper presents an approach towards an open web-based...

A method for characterizing model fidelity in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

November 30, 2016

Author(s)

Ibrahim Assouroko, Paul Witherell, Felipe LOPEZ

As Additive Manufacturing (AM) matures as a technology, predictive modeling methods have become increasingly sought after as a means for process planning...

Chip-Packaged Silicon Photonic Nanoscale Thermometers

November 30, 2016

Author(s)

Nikolai Klimov, Thomas P. Purdy, Zeeshan Ahmed

We report on the development of on-chip integrated packaged nanoscale silicon photonic themperature sensors capable to detect temperature difference as small as...

A practical verification and validation approach for Computational Wind Engineering simulations using an experimental design technique

November 23, 2016

Author(s)

R¿onn Mac R¿oinn, DongHun Yeo

Understanding the sensitivity of computational wind engineering (CWE) solutions to simulation parameters facilitates the development of useful solutions. The...

Understanding Structure Ignition Vulnerabilities Using Reduced Size Sections of Building Components

November 22, 2016

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

The 2016 Fort McMurray, Canada, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire displaced more than 80,000 people, destroyed nearly 2,400 structures, and shut down nearly a...

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