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Conferences

A Survey of Key Comparisons A Survey of Design, Analysis, and Reporting of Results in Key Comparisons

Author(s)

Adriana Hornikova, William F. Guthrie

Key comparisons are international inter-laboratory studies used to establish the degree of equivalence between national measurement standards. These studies...

International Evaluation Collaboration: Developing and Managing Infrastructure for Research and Development Programs

Author(s)

Rachel J. Bowers, Dennis Moellman, John S. Garofolo

The most innovative technology can potentially meet any goals of research sponsors. However, this potential may never materialize if the program lacks...

The Contribution of Tool Testing to the Challenge of Responding to an IT Adversary

Author(s)

James R. Lyle

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...

Tall Building Response Parameters: Sensitivity Study Based on Orthogonal Factorial Experiment Design Techniques

Author(s)

James J. Filliben, Emil Simiu

This work has two objectives. The first objective is to introduce structural engineers to the experiment design technique, whose future applications may include...

The Rich Transcription 2005 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation

Author(s)

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...

Estimating Error Discovery in Library Conformance Testing

Author(s)

Gordon E. Lyon

Procedure libraries provide fresh insight into unit conformance testing. The library specification, as an ensemble, offers cost estimates for error discovery...

Common Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction

Author(s)

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...

The Peer-to_Peer Human-Robot Interaction Project

Author(s)

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...

A Strategy for Testing Hardware Write Block Devices

Author(s)

James R. Lyle

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...

Inter-comparison Example

Author(s)

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...

Lessons from Collecting a Million Biometric Samples

August 25, 2016

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn

Estimating t-way Fault Profile Evolution During Testing

August 25, 2016

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Lei Yu

Empirical studies have shown that most software interaction faults involve one or two variables interacting, with progressively fewer triggered by three or more...

Energy and Indoor Air Quality Benchmarking of the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF)

August 24, 2016

Author(s)

Tania Ullah, Dustin Poppendieck, William M. Healy, Arthur H. Fanney, Kevin Y. Teichman

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) designed and built a residence that could generate, through the use of renewable energy systems, the...

Ontology-based laser and thermal metamodels for metal-based additive manufacturing

August 24, 2016

Author(s)

Paul Witherell, Ibrahim Assouroko, Roh Byeong-Min, Timothy Simpson, Soundar Kumara

Additive manufacturing (AM) is creating renewed interest in manufacturing thanks to the freedom it provides to design and innovate. One of the biggest...

Enhancing Robotic Unstructured Bin-Picking Performance by Enabling Remote Human Interventions in Challenging Perception Scenarios

August 24, 2016

Author(s)

Krishnanand N. Kaipa, Akshaya S. Kankanhalli-Nagendra, Nithyananda B. Kumbla, Shaurya Shriyam, Srudeep Somnaath Thevendria-Karthic, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

We present an approach that enables a robot to initiate a call to a remote human operator and ask help in resolving automated perception system failures during...

USING INDUSTRY FOCUS GROUPS AND LITERATURE REVIEW TO IDENTIFY CHALLENGES IN SUSTAINABLE ASSESSMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE

August 23, 2016

Author(s)

Mahesh Mani, Karl Haapala, Matteo Smullin, KC Morris

The bottom up demand from consumers for more sustainable products, and the top down need to comply with government regulations motivates manufacturers to adopt...

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS FOR INTEGRATED AND COLLABORATIVE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

August 23, 2016

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Paul Witherell, Felipe F. Lopez, Ibrahim Assouroko

Software tools, knowledge of materials and process models, and data provide three pillars on which Additive Manufacturing (AM) lifecycles and value chains can...

Simplified Framework for Robot Coordinate Registration for Manufacturing Applications

August 23, 2016

Author(s)

Jeremy Marvel, Karl Van Wyk

A simplified framework is introduced for automatically and quickly registering the Cartesian coordinate systems of industrial robots to any other arbitrary...

Enabling Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Decision-Making Support

August 21, 2016

Author(s)

Moneer M. Helu, Don E. Libes, Joshua Lubell, Kevin W. Lyons, Katherine C. Morris

Smart manufacturing combines advanced manufacturing capabilities and digital technologies throughout the product lifecycle. These technologies can provide...

Investigating predictive metamodeling for additive manufacturing

August 21, 2016

Author(s)

Zhuo Yang, Douglas Eddy, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Peter O. Denno, Felipe F. Lopez

Additive manufacturing processes offer significant commercial advantages due to unique and advanced process capabilities. Production of metal parts can involve...

Optimized Air-to-Refrigerant Heat Exchanger With Low-GWP Refrigerants

August 20, 2016

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski, Hong Hyun Cho

This paper presents an analytical evaluation of the performance of low-GWP refrigerants in a finned-tube evaporator used for residential cooling applications...

JCGM-WG1-SC1-N88 -- Comments

Author(s)

Antonio M. Possolo

Comments on Clemens Elster's contribution to the Working Group 1 of the Joint Committee for Guides in Metrolgy, BIPM, entitled "Calculation of uncertainty in...

Comparison of two methods for determining the sorption correction for a vacuum-realized kilogram

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Patrick J. Abbott, Corey A. Stambaugh, Edward C. Mulhern, Eric Benck, Zeina J. Kubarych

The International System of Units (SI) is expected to be revised in 2018, and in this new system, the unit of mass, the kilogram, will be realized in a vacuum...

Microwave Radiometry of Blackbody Radiation

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Dazhen Gu

We outline the theoretical formulation of radiometry of the free-space radiation emitted by a blackbody target. Simulation shows a much smaller drop of...

Key Recovery Attack on Cubic Simple Matrix Encryption

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Ray Perlner, Dustin Moody, Daniel 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...

Using Design of Experiments in Finite Element Modeling to Identify Critical Variables in Laser Powder Bed Fusion

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Li Ma, Jeffrey T. Fong, Brandon Lane, Shawn P. Moylan, James J. Filliben, N. Alan Heckert, Lyle E. Levine

In Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) Finite Element Analysis (FEA), input of accurate material and simulation parameters is critical for accurate predictions. It...

Effect of Bounded Rationality on Tradeoff Between Systemic Risks & Economic Efficiency in Networks

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

This paper discusses effect of bounded rationality on the systemic risks vs. economic performance tradeoff in large-scale networks operating under economic...

Alternate Substrates for Measuring Cigarette Ignition Propensity Using ASTM E 2187

August 11, 2016

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Edward J. Hnetkovsky, William F. Guthrie

ASTM E 2187 has become the internationally referenced standard for designing and specifying less fire-prone cigarettes. In this Standard, a lit cigarette is...

A Simple Model for the Prediction of AC-DC Difference of Multi-Junction Thermal Converters

August 10, 2016

Author(s)

Stefan Cular, Thomas E. Lipe Jr.

This paper describes a simple model for planar multi-junction thermal converters based on physical dimensions and properties of the converter chip and all wire...

Characterization of Feedstock in the Powder Bed Fusion Process: Sources of Variation in Particle Size Distribution and the Factors that Influence them

August 10, 2016

Author(s)

Justin G. Whiting, Jason Fox

Substantial efforts have been placed on characterizing and modeling additive manufacturing (AM) processes. The wide scope of work already done has focused on...

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