| NMMC Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) |
Jul-2008 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Robert C Becker; NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER TUPELO MS
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 | This final report summarizes project activity from October 1, 2004 through June 30, 2008. All deliverables for this project were met: PACS equipment became fully operational at the NMMC-Tupleo campus, all five community hospitals (Eupora, Pontotoc, West Point, Iuka and Hamilton sites), and at 15 primary care clinics in rural Mississippi; Radiology staff at all sites were thoroughly training; Data collection and analysis continued with results reported; Network vulnerability assessment ... |
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| Transient Turbine Engine Modeling with Hardware-in-the-Loop Power Extraction (PREPRINT) |
Jul-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
John McNichols; Michael A Boyd; J M Wolff; Philip R Owen; S D Phillips; Mark J Blackwelder; J Timothy; Michael W Corbett; Peter T Lamm; KRAUSE (P C) AND ASSOCIATES WEST LAFAYETTE IN
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| Increasingly high aircraft power demands require that the interactions between an aircraft's electrical subsystem and the engine subsystem be considered in dynamic, system-level tests. Traditionally, system-level dynamics have only been captured in completely assembled aircraft systems. Component-level or subsystem-level optimization is no longer appropriate because highly interdependent dynamics between subsystems only become apparent during system-level analysis. In an effort to mitigate program risk, enable system-level optimization, and reduce the high ... |
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| Hardware-in-the-Loop Power Extraction Using Different Real-Time Platforms (PREPRINT) |
Jul-2008 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Mitch Wolff; Michael Corbett; John McNichols; Peter Lamm; Caleb Barnes; Thomas Baudendistel; KRAUSE (P C) AND ASSOCIATES WEST LAFAYETTE IN
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| Aircraft power demands continue to increase with the increase in electrical subsystems. These subsystems directly affect the behavior of the power and propulsion systems and can no longer be neglected or assumed linear in system analyses. The complex models designed to integrate new capabilities have a high computational cost. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) is being used to investigate aircraft power systems by using a combination of hardware and simulations. This paper considers ... |
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| A Computational Framework for Multi-Scale Simulations of Weakly Ionized Plasma |
30-Jun-2008 |
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| Authors:
V I Kolobov; R R Arslanbekov; C Wichaidit; W N Hitchon; V F Kovalev; CFD RESEARCH CORP HUNTSVILLE AL
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 | The goal of this STTR project is to develop a unified computational framework integrating adequate physical models for simulating complex non-equilibrium plasmas. The project aims to classify possible scenarios of plasma dynamics and develop general recipes for clustering phase space into sub-domains evolving at different scales and efficiently solve the dynamics for each scale. During Phase I, we developed a methodology to apply methods of Invariant Manifolds and the Renormalization ... |
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| A Test-bed for Intelligent, Mobile Sensor Applications |
23-Jun-2008 |
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| Authors:
Gurdip Singh; Scott A DeLoach; KANSAS STATE UNIV MANHATTAN DEPT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| The goal of this effort was to design, develop, and acquire a well-equipped platform for experimental evaluation of intelligent, mobile sensor network application to enhance our research. The equipment purchased included three Pioneer all-terrain robots as well as several smaller, more limited robots. Also acquired was a collection of off-the-shelf sensors and sensor kits for large scale experiments including Crossbow Technology Inc's Mote kits (which include MICA motes, sensor and ... |
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| Evaluation of CERT Secure Coding Rules through Integration with Source Code Analysis Tools |
01-Jun-2008 |
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| Authors:
Stephen Dewhurst; Chad Dougherty; Yurie Ito; David Keaton; Dan Saks; Robert C Seacord; David Svoboda; Chris Taschner; Kazuya Togashi; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| This report describes the results of a study to evaluate the effectiveness of secure coding practices, including the use of static analysis tools coupled with secure coding rule sets such as the CERT C Programming Language Secure Coding Standard (CERT 07a) and the CERT C++ Programming Language Secure Coding Standard (CERT 07b). This study represents a joint effort between the CERT Secure Coding Initiative and JPCERT/CC. The CERT Secure Coding ... |
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| The Effects of Seductive Details on Recognition Tests and Transfer Tasks |
01-Jun-2008 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Annette Towler; Kurt Kraiger; DEPAUL UNIV GREENCASTLE IN
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| This research focuses on the investigation of pre-training and in-training events that facilitate effective learning and the transfer of knowledge and skills acquired through distributed learning. We tested training effectiveness principles in the context of suboptimal learning. Specifically, we investigated the seductive details phenomenon, a condition in which the inclusion of interesting information irrelevant to the training objectives reduces trainee learning. In terms of our findings, we found no effect ... |
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| Data Strategies to Support Automated Multi-Sensor Data Fusion in a Service Oriented Architecture |
01-Jun-2008 |
240 pages |
| Authors:
Kurt J Rothenhaus; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The quantity of data available to decision makers of various types is rapidly expanding beyond the pace of manual interpretation techniques (Hobbins, 1). Introducing a Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) based web service framework that exposes even more data without sufficient guidance will exacerbate the situation. Ontology's, data descriptions and discovery methods alone are not enough to create the end-to-end solutions promised by SOA technologies. Software architectural patterns in conjunction with ... |
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| Automated Metadata Extraction |
01-Jun-2008 |
83 pages |
| Authors:
James Migletz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Metadata is data that describes data. There are many computer forensic uses of metadata and being able to extract metadata automatically provides positive forensic implications. This thesis presents a new technique for batch processing disk images and automatically extracting metadata from files and file contents. The technique is embodied in a program called fiwalk that has a plug-in architecture allowing new metadata extractors to be readily incorporated. Output from fiwalk ... |
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| High Performance Parallel Java with JavaParty |
01-Jun-2008 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
Samuel Nassar; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| To achieve better performance with Java applications, computers can be interconnected with fast networks to form a cluster making available multiple Java Virtual Machines. Unfortunately, Java does not provide an elegant, easy to use mechanism for parallel programming on clusters. JavaParty transparently adds remote objects to Java while avoiding the disadvantages of programming with remote method invocation (RMI) and many disadvantages of the message-passing approach in general. This thesis presents ... |
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| Analysis, Design, and Implementation of a Logical Proof-of-Concept Prototype for Streamlining the Advertisement of Billets for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve |
01-Jun-2008 |
271 pages |
| Authors:
Jon D Mohler; John M Thorpe; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The primary objective of this thesis is to provide the Marine Corps with a thorough bottom up System Analysis of the next generation billet advertisement system that will replace Reserve Duty Online (RDOL). The study includes a detailed systems analysis, a generic architecture, logical data models, process models and a system model which provides the Marine Corps with a blueprint of the requirements for the next system of record. The ... |
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| Harmonized Constraints in Software Engineering and Acquisition Process Management Requirements are the Clue to Meet Future Performance Goals Successfully in an Environment of Scarce Resources |
01-Jun-2008 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Holger Reich; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This MBA project investigates the importance of correctly deriving requirements from the capability gap and operational environment, and translating them into the processes of contracting, software and hardware design, system engineering, the acquisition cycle, and program management. The research also examines inefficiencies in hardware and software development, acquisition management, and problems caused by organizational, systemic and stakeholder interferences. The primary goal is achieving the acquisition process to deliver the best ... |
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| A Preliminary Analysis for Porting XML-based Chat to MYSEA |
01-Jun-2008 |
145 pages |
| Authors:
Claire E LaVelle; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| The Monterey Security Architecture (MYSEA) is a distributed multilevel secure (MLS) computing environment. MYSEA does not presently support chat, an Internet application that provides near-real-time collaboration capability. Chat capability that implements the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) standards has been recognized by the Department of Defense (DoD) as a mandatory standard. The primary goal of this thesis is to determine if a chat server that implements the XMPP and ... |
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| Adaptive Architecture for Command and Control (A2C2) Experiment 11: Determining an Effective ISR Management Structure at the Operational Level of Conflict |
01-Jun-2008 |
147 pages |
| Authors:
Germaine E Halbert; Daniel W Stockton; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis on Experiment 11 concentrates on two conditions of the main independent variable: the position of the ISR Officer. Analysis compares different performance variables under the two ISR role structures. Condition I is comprised of an ISR Coordinator (ISR Coord), a Sea Combat Commander (SCC) and a Marine Expeditionary Unit Commander (MEU). Condition II is comprised of an ISR Commander (ISR Cdr), an SCC and a MEU. Both ISR ... |
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| Cargo Throughput and Survivability Trade-Offs in Force Sustainment Operations |
01-Jun-2008 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
William J Sumsion; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Force sustainment requires an optimum supply of resources to maintain and project power in an area. With sustainment reaching ever farther from the origin of supplies, commanders find an increasing exposure of their logistic trains to risk. To mitigate the increased risk from hostile forces, the survivability of supply vehicles must be considered in force sustainment operations to accurately capture a true throughput projection. Development of an optimum throughput plan ... |
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| Implementing an Intrusion Detection System in the Mysea Architecture |
01-Jun-2008 |
169 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas Tenhunen; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Monterey Security Architecture (MYSEA) supports a multilevel secure (MLS) network and a number of single level networks at different classification levels. The MYSEA MLS server is the focus of policy enforcement. It implements a Dynamic Security Services mechanism (DSS) that can modulate IPsec security attributes and MYSEA security services based upon administrator choices. Use of intrusion detection technology on the unprotected single level networks can provide administrators with actionable ... |
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| The Use of the Analytical Hierarchy Process as a Source Selection Methodology and Its Potential Application within the Hellenic Air Force |
01-Jun-2008 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Angelis Tsagdis; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis assesses the feasibility of using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a dynamic tool for decision-making in defense acquisition. The gradual reductions in defense budgets, the need for efficient allocation of funds among competitive activities, the demand from public opinion for rationality, transparency and efficiency in defense spending, the complicated legislation concerning procurements, all call for changes in the way officials make decisions. The AHP is a multiattribute ... |
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| Optimal Jammer Placement to Interdict Wireless Network Services |
01-Jun-2008 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
Arun Shankar; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The demand for wireless networks continues to grow as the need for portable, low-cost telecommunications systems increases around the world. Wireless networks are particularly complex because their topologies can change in response to operational requirements or environmental conditions and also because wireless networks are susceptible to electromagnetic interference. In this thesis, we consider the challenges associated with the operation and jamming of so-called wireless mesh networks. In a wireless mesh ... |
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| Representing Urban Cultural Geography in Stabilization Operations: Analysis of a Social Network Representation in Pythagoras |
01-Jun-2008 |
125 pages |
| Authors:
Thorsten Seitz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Civilian human behavior representation is the most significant gap in representing political, military, economic, social, information and infrastructure aspects of the operational environment in urban operations. We consider three analytical models for different aspects of population dynamics, and explore whether they can be implemented in the Pythagoras 2.0.0 agent-based combat simulation software. These analytic models are an attitudinal effect model, a social network model, and an economic model. This study ... |
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| An Automated Acquisition System for Media Exploitation |
01-Jun-2008 |
75 pages |
| Authors:
Bassi; Steven D Jr; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis explores the requirements for building a highly usable acquisition system for an automated document and media exploitation system and presents work to date on AcqMan, an acquisition manager written in Java which uses DBUS and the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) to automatically detect device insertion and start forensic imaging. |
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| Modeling Methodologies for Representing Urban Cultural Geographies in Stability Operations |
01-Jun-2008 |
153 pages |
| Authors:
Todd P Ferris; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis addresses Department of Defense (DoD) Modeling and Simulation (M&S) deficiencies in military and organizational societal modeling methods. These deficiencies are even more important today due to Stability Operations being an extremely prevalent mission for U.S. forces in this century. Research efforts in this thesis focused on the implementation of three analytic social theory models into the agent-based model (ABM) Pythagoras 2.0.0, in an effort to provide modeling methodologies ... |
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| Increasing Open Source Software Integration on the Department of Defense Unclassified Desktop |
01-Jun-2008 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Steven A Schearer; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The United States Department of Defense (DoD) spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on desktop computer software. While some of this expenditure goes to fund special-purpose military software, much of it is absorbed by license fees for computer operating systems and general-purpose office automation applications. Although many of these tools may serve their respective purposes rather well, there are many reasons to consider adopting alternative software solutions alongside ... |
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| An Analysis of Related Software Cycles Among Organizations, People and the Software Industry |
01-Jun-2008 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Moore; Brady Adams; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| There is a need to understand cycles associated with software upgrades as they effect people, organizations and the software industry. This thesis intends to explore the moderating factors of these three distinct and disjointed cycles and propose courses of action towards mitigating various issues and problems inherent in the software upgrade process. This thesis will acknowledge that three related but disjointed cycles are common in many software upgrade ventures in ... |
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| Implications of Services-Oriented Architecture and Open Architecture Composable Systems on the Acquisition Organizations and Processes |
01-Jun-2008 |
95 pages |
| Authors:
Cory S Brummett; Benjamin H Finney; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The U.S. Navy is interested in acquiring systems that promote the use of Services-oriented Architecture (SOA) and Open Architecture (OA) in Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS). The number of systems required to share data and provide reliable information in weapons systems is growing. Many systems, systems-of-systems and families of systems with different software architectures are acquired and often have difficulty operating together, which causes delays, increases costs, and limits re-use. Intelligent ... |
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| A Merit-Based Architecture for the Automatic Selection and Composition of Services in SOA-Based C4ISR Systems |
01-Jun-2008 |
177 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas S Cook; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Department of Defense (DoD) Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems are responsible for supplying the right information at the right time to the warfighter. This dissertation presents a methodology for automating and realizing time-critical C4ISR applications. We introduce World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compliant services into the planning and battle management processes where a computer can be more efficient and more effective than a human ... |
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| Internet Topology Generation Based on Reverse-Engineered Design Principles: Performance Tradeoffs Between Heuristic and Optimization-Based Approaches |
01-Jun-2008 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan A Derosier; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The global Internet is a federation of computer networks that are owned and operated by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Because ISPs do not share topology information for competitive and privacy reasons, researchers, operators, and policy makers who want to assess the performance and reliability of the system as a whole must infer structure from limited measurement data. We use reverse-engineering to infer underlying design principles of a national ISP and ... |
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| Authorship Discovery in Blogs Using Bayesian Classification with Corrective Scaling |
01-Jun-2008 |
51 pages |
| Authors:
Grant T Gehrke; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Widespread availability of free, public blog platforms has facilitated growth in the amount of individually written electronic text available online. Our research leverages an extremely large blog corpus for a study in authorship discovery, both to evaluate a traditional technique as applied to blogs, as well as to demonstrate the implications of authorship discovery in blogs for intelligence and forensic purposes. Our study uses a Bayesian classifier with two important ... |
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| Interacting Brain Modules for Memory: An Adaptive Representations Architecture |
01-Jun-2008 |
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| Authors:
Mark A Gluck; RUTGERS - THE STATE UNIV NEWARK NJ OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER
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| An innovative and novel biologically-based computational model of interacting brain modules for memory, using the adaptive representations architecture of Gluck & Myers (1993; see also, 2001, Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Models of the Hippocampus and Learning, MIT Press) has been developed. The approach began with a connectionist-level architecture for the hippocampal region (medial temporal lobe) as a central system for creating optimal and adaptive stimulus representations, ... |
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| Integrated Data-Driven DSS in a Laboratory Environment |
01-Jun-2008 |
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| Authors:
Brian L Hargrave; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Decision support technologies have remained individualistic as primarily stand-alone platforms. The ability to access and integrate a wide range of such technologies in an Integrated Decision Technology Environment (IDTE) can potentially increase a user's ability to create more complex decision support projects. A well-designed IDTE will allow users to identify, learn about, access, execute and integrate disparate decision technologies. Data-Driven DSS provide decision makers with the capability to store and ... |
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| Autonomous Quality Space Imagery for LEO/GEO Space Operations |
01-Jun-2008 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
David K Geller; John McInroy; UTAH STATE UNIV LOGAN
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| Our overall goal is to develop, implement and transfer accurate new numerical methods for solving moving boundary problems in materials science. We have three specific objectives: (1) Combine semi-Lagrangian time stepping, accurate contouring and fast geometric algorithms to develop and implement accurate, efficient and general new methods for moving sharp interfaces; (2) Develop a fast modular open source moving interface code for transfer to other researchers, labs and industry; (3) ... |
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| Use of Trusted Software Modules for Emergency-Integrity Display |
01-Jun-2008 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Cynthia E Irvine; Thuy D Nguyen; Timothy E Levin; Paul C Clark; David J Shifflett; Timothy M Vidas; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| This report provides summary of the interface, mechanisms and semantics for high integrity display of information in a secure computer system, based on the use of a high assurance separation kernel and trusted software modules in both the application domain and the trusted software domain. |
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| Checking Temporal Relations between Multiple Objects |
01-Jun-2008 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan Aldrich; Ciera Jaspan; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Software frameworks contain constraints with unusual properties. The constraints frequently span multiple objects and classes, and they change according to the current context. Additionally, they may not be enforced at the same point where they were specified or broken, thus causing unexpected runtime errors. This paper describes a lightweight specification system to describe multi- object temporal constraints. It also provides a detailed description of a static analysis to check that ... |
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| Error Reporting Logic |
01-Jun-2008 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan Aldrich; Ciera Jaspan; Trisha Quan; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| When a system fails to meet its specification, it can be difficult to find the source of the error and detenmue how to fix it. In this paper, we introduce error reporting logic (ERL), an algorithm and tool that produces succinct explanations for why a target system violates a specification expressed in first order predicate logic. ERL analyzes the specification to determine which parts contrbuted to the failure, and it ... |
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| OraGIS and Loom: Spatial and Temporal Extensions to the ORA Analysis Platform |
01-Jun-2008 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
George B Davis; Jamie Olson; Kathleen M Carley; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Increasingly, data available to network analysts includes not only relationships between actors but measurements of entity attributes and relations through time and space. Integrating this information with existing dynamic network analysis techniques demands new models and tools. This paper introduces two extensions to the ORA dynamic network analysis platform intended to meet this need. The first, OraGIS, provides geospatial visualization and clustering algorithms. The second, Loom, assists in the analysis ... |
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| Enhancing Maritime Domain Awareness |
01-Jun-2008 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Gordon Schacher; Jared Freeman; Dan Dunaway; Susan G Hutchins; Shelley P Gallup; Doug MacKinnon; Scot Miller; Brad Poeltler; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF OPERATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
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| A complex mosaic of forces will affect maritime security through 2020. These include economic forces such as (i) illegal international migration-fueled by tremendous population increases in developing countries, (ii) drug smuggling, and (iii) weapons proliferation, as well as (iv) military threats posed by hostile states, failed states, and transnational organizations engaged in intelligence gathering or terrorist activities. The President's National Security Strategy indicates that diverse threats such as these must ... |
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| Extreme C2 and Multi-Touch, Multi-User Collaborative User Interfaces |
01-Jun-2008 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Regal; Don Pacetti; SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER NORTH CHARLESTON SC
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| The purpose of this paper is to introduce two things, the concept of Extreme C2 and a technological implementation for this collaborative, net-centric concept. Extreme C2 is a concept that applies elements of the eXtreme Programming (XP) concept. This collaborative development technique can increase the adaptability and quality of software, something of high value in the complex domain of enterprise software. When fused with net-centric concepts, Automated Battle Management Aids ... |
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| Beyond Reactive Planning: Self Adaptive Software and Self Modeling Software in Predictive Deliberation Management |
01-Jun-2008 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Jack Lenahan; Phil Charles; Mike Nash; SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS CENTER NORTH CHARLESTON SC
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| The purpose of this paper is to examine an approach to planning which extends beyond the traditional reactive planning state space. We present the following hypothesis: predictive deliberation management using self-adapting and self-modeling software will be required to provide mission planning adjustments after the start of a mission. Self-adaptive software evaluates its own behavior and changes behavior when the evaluation indicates that it is not accomplishing what the software is ... |
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| C2 Network Analysis: Insights into Coordination & Understanding |
01-Jun-2008 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Craig Schreiber; Jeffrey T Hansberger; Randall D Spain; ARMY RESEARCH LAB SUFFOLK VA
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| The distributed cognitive framework (Hutchins, 1995) provides a structured and theoretical approach for analyzing cognitive characteristics beyond that of a single individual to that of a system comprising of multiple individuals, tools, and the task environment. Among some of the attributes of a distributed cognitive system are: 1) coordination across agents 2) mental models, 3) situation assessment, 4) memory demands, 5) adaptability, and 6) workload management. This paper will address ... |
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| Distributed Planning in a Mixed-Initiative Environment |
01-Jun-2008 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Chad DeStefano; Kurt Lachevet; Joseph Carozzoni; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY SYSTEMS AND INFORMATION INTEROPERABILITY BRANCH
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| The USAF Command and Control (C2) is undergoing a transformation to enable a full-spectrum, joint warfighting capability. To be able to meet the future challenge of employing forces anywhere in the world in support of national security objectives, the USAF requires a highly synchronized, distributed planning and replanning capability that is flexible to adapt to any level of conflict. This paper describes an in-house program underway at the USAF Research ... |
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| Semantical Machine Understanding |
01-Jun-2008 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Ying Zhao; Chetan Kotak; Charles C Zhou; QUANTUM INTELLIGENCE INC SANTA CLARA CA
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| Semantical Machine Understanding is the foundation for automatic sense and decision making of multinational, multicultural, and coalition applications. We show an innovative semantical machine understanding system that can be installed on each node of a network and used as a semantic search engine. Innovations of such a system include 1" text mining: extract concepts and meaning clusters based on contexts using pattern recognition and machine learning; 2" meaning learning: extract ... |
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| Mashup the OODA Loop |
01-Jun-2008 |
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| Authors:
Jeffrey E Heier; MITRE CORP EATONTOWN NJ
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| This paper provides an overview of several Web 2.0 applications and how they can be constructed via mashups to augment current Army Command and Control (C2) processes via the Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) Loop concept. As defined by Wikipedia, a mashup is a Website or application that combines the content from more than one source into an integrated presentation. The benefits include (1) faster correlation of current data, ... |
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| A Sensemaking Visualization Tool with Military Doctrinal Elements |
01-Jun-2008 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
Celestine A Ntuen; Kim Gwang-Myung; NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIV GREENSBORO ARMY CENTER FOR HUMAN-CENTRIC COMMAND AND CONTROL DECISION MAKING
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| The Army's Center of Battlefield Excellence in Human-Centric Command & Control Decision Making is exploring how to use information visualization to enable collaborative sensemaking. The goal is to provide a common operating picture with shared situation awareness in the context of dynamic task situations. We have developed a Sensemaking Support System (S3), a prototype sensemaking visualization tool with situation understanding capability and knowledge discovery components. We experimentally validate the utility ... |
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| Evaluation of Organizational Designs with Network-Centric Philosophy |
01-Jun-2008 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Celestine A Ntuen; Kim Gwang-Myung; Eui H Park; NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIV GREENSBORO ARMY CENTER FOR HUMAN-CENTRIC COMMAND AND CONTROL DECISION MAKING
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| The concept of network-centric warfare (NCW) is an evolving construct that has altered the military organizational landscapes. In the asymmetric information domains, there are few studies that actually relate the daily agitations of each of the command centers to the vulnerability of the entire C2 structure. In addition, there are no existing studies that use daily events and incidents to understand the vulnerabilities of each organizational structure. This paper reports ... |
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| High Productivity Computing Systems for Command and Control |
01-Jun-2008 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher Flynn; Scott Spetka; STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK INST OF TECHNOLOGY AT UTICA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| The most significant issue underlying all future command and control (C2) architectures is the ability to develop software that can harness the next generation of processors. Multicore processors, scaling into thousands of processors per chip will soon be prevalent in all C2 systems. The success of C2 systems will depend on our ability to adapt to the new processor technology. Existing C2 systems that implement scientific codes for image processing ... |
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| CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 21, Number 6 |
01-Jun-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey Voas; Paul Anderson; Watts S Humphrey; Capers Jones; Thomas D Neff; Richard Kuhn; Yu Lei; Raghu Kacker; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT CENTER HILL AFB UT
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| CONTENTS: 1) The Software Quality Challenge by Watts S. Humphrey: As software in systems grow larger, it also contains more defects that adversely affect the systems. Article explains why common test-and-fix software quality strategy is no longer adequate, and offers suggestions for improvement. 2) Measuring Defect Potentials and Defect Removal Efficiency by Capers Jones: Discusses two measures that have strong influences on the outcomes of software projects: defect potentials and ... |
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| New Software Platform Capabilities and Experimentation Campaign for ELICIT |
01-Jun-2008 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Nissen; Mary Ruddy; CENTER FOR EDGE POWER MONTEREY CA
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| ELICIT is the Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Information-sharing Collaboration and Trust. A project of the Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (NII), the ELICIT project developed an online multi-user software platform for conducting experiments in information-sharing and trust. The initial version of the software allowed researchers to model and experiment with a limited set of Command and Control (C2) organizations processes ... |
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| Quality Processes Yield Quality Products |
01-Jun-2008 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
Thomas D Neff; MTC TECHNOLOGIES FORT BELVOIR VA
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| Would your company like to save $100,000 per day? Would you like to surge an urgent project's delivery time by 50 percent and deliver zero errors? Software organizations have done just that. In this article, I list small steps you can take that will lead your company toward similar results based on my 15 years of process improvement experience. |
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| Middletown 2010-A Realistic Interactive Emergency Simulation and Response System for the U.S. Army |
01-Jun-2008 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
MOBILE MEDIA INVENTIONS AS OSLO (NORWAY)
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| A prototype has been developed to handle positioned based photos videos voice and environmental data. This prototype forms the basis for the following solutions. Middletown can provide an advanced simulation solution to provide better training. It can be delivered in the shape of a scalable client/server solution consisting of hardware software and interface connectors to other infrastructures such as mobile networks. The Army and other designated users will be able ... |
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| Mitigating Reversing Vulnerabilities in .Net Applications Using Virtualized Software Protection |
01-Jun-2008 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH CENTER FOR CYBERSPACE RESEARCH
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| Protecting intellectual property contained in application source code and preventing tampering with application binaries are both major concerns for software developers. Simply by possessing an application binary, any user is able to attempt to reverse engineer valuable information or produce unanticipated execution results through tampering. As reverse engineering tools become more prevalent, and as the knowledge required to effectively use those tools decreases, applications come under increased attack from malicious ... |
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| Measuring the Operational Readiness of an Air Force Network Warfare Squadron |
01-Jun-2008 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
Paul H Orth; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| As part of its squadron activation, the 315th Network Warfare Squadron (NWS) requested assistance from the Air Force Institute of Technology in developing criteria for declaring Initial Operational Capability (IOC) and Full Operational Capability (FOC) to assess the unit's operational readiness. The research methodology included a review of current Department of Defense (DoD), Joint, and Air Force publications and instructions, as well as a review of three different unit activations: ... |
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Computer Programming and Software
