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There is a need to back up critical timing infrastructure at the national level. This paper provides an update on a joint project employing commercial equipment
Peyman Y. Shotorbani, Farhad Ameri, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic
As the volume of manufacturing information available online grows steadily, the need for developing dedicated computational tools for information organization
Kiwook Jung, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Sangsu Choi, Michael Brundage
Technologies for creating smart manufacturing systems or factories are becoming increasingly abundant. However, manufacturers, large and small, need to
M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Marcus J. Calkins, Nathan Donley, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, Anton Simeonov, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd, Ajit Jadhav
In cancer therapy, the efficacy of therapeutic agents may be influenced by increased DNA repair capacity. This may be due to overexpression of DNA repair
In response to demanding market conditions, Smart Manufacturing (SM) seeks to integrate advanced manufacturing methods, operational technologies (OT), and
Digital image correlation (DIC) data are being extensively used for many forming applications including constitutive law calibration, benchmark calibration, and
As cloud computing is increasingly adopted, the trend is to offer software func-tions as modular services and compose them into larger, more meaningful ones
Nader Moayeri, Mustafa O. Ergin, Filip Lemic, Vlado Handziski, Adam Wolisz
This paper describes a major effort to collect smartphone data useful for indoor localization. Data has been collected with four Android phones according to
Developing optimal production plans for smart manufacturing systems is challenging if events change dynamically. A virtual factory incorporating engineering
Jan Obrzut, Caglar Dogu Emiroglu, Beatriz A. Pazmino, Jack F. Douglas, Jeffrey W. Gilman
Dielectric permittivity of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) films was determined using a non-contact resonant cavity perturbation method at 7.3 GHz in quantitative
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Jerome G. Ajot, John S. Garofolo, George Doddington
This paper presents the first evaluation of Spoken Term Detection technologies, held during the latter part of 2006. Spoken Term Detection systems rapidly
Richard L. Steiner, David B. Newell, Edwin R. Williams, Ruimin Liu, Pierre Gournay
The project, the Electronic Realization of the Kilogram, has rebuilt the NIST Watt balance, which has been fully operational for nine months. Short-term noise
Several reference materials and associated reference values have been recommended for the purposes of calibration and/or validation of differential scanning
In this paper we introduce an approach to construct statistical metrology tools with a Microsoft Excel based interface that use the open source statistical
Comments on the Draft of Supplement 0 to the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), to be discussed during the April 2007 meeting of
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Jerome G. Ajot, John S. Garofolo
We present the design and results of the Spring 2007 (RT-07) Rich Transcription Meeting Recognition Evaluation; the fifth in a series of community-wide
Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, Rachel J. Bowers, John S. Garofolo, Djamel Mostefa, K Soundararajan
This paper is a summary of the first CLEAR evaluation on CLassification of Events, Activities and Relationships - which took place in early 2006 and concluded
The wording and placement of instructions can help or hinder voters from successfully voting for their choices. No research has been done specifically on the
Key comparisons are international inter-laboratory studies used to establish the degree of equivalence between national measurement standards. These studies
The investigator is being presented with more data and more types of data to analyze. The investigator cannot work without tools. Tools are needed to acquire
This work has two objectives. The first objective is to introduce structural engineers to the experiment design technique, whose future applications may include
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Nicolas Radde, John S. Garofolo, A N. Le, Jerome G. Ajot, Christophe Laprun
This paper presents the design and results of the Rich Transcription Spring 2005 (RT-05S) Meeting Recognition Evaluation. This evaluation is the third in a
Procedure libraries provide fresh insight into unit conformance testing. The library specification, as an ensemble, offers cost estimates for error discovery
Terrance Fong, Illah Nourbakhsh, Robert Ambrose, Reid Simmons, Alan Schultz, Jean C. Scholtz
The Peer-toPeer Human-Robot Interaction (PEP-HRI) project is developing techniques to improve task coordination and collaboration between human and robot
Aaron Steinfeld, Terrance Fong, David Kaber, Michael Lewis, Jean C. Scholtz, Alan Schultz, Michael Goodrich
This paper describes an effort to identify common metrics for task-oriented human-robot interaction (HRI). We begin by discussing the need for a toolkit of HRI
There is a critical need in the law enforcement community to ensure the reliability of computer forensic tools. A capability is required to ensure that forensic
Adriana Hornikova, Maritoni A. Litorja, Stefan D. Leigh, J B. Fowler
This paper overviews results from Consultative Committee on Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) the Supplementary Comparison S2. It details measurement and
Empirical studies have shown that most software interaction faults involve one or two variables interacting, with progressively fewer triggered by three or more