| Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program Newsletter. Volume 1. Issue 1, Spring 2009 |
30-Mar-2009 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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 | Beginning in Fiscal Year 2008 the Department of Defense has a new R&D program to develop a science base and associated technologies for human, social and culture behavior modeling. The program is vertically integrated across three categories of RDT&E funding: Applied Research, Advanced Technology Development, and Advanced Component Development & Prototypes. The military capability needs being addressed center on enablement of modeling for Irregular Warfare (IW) and Security, Stability, Transition, ... |
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| Naval S&T Strategic Plan: Defining the Strategic Direction for Tomorrow |
Jan-2009 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The overriding goal of this Naval S&T Strategic Plan is to provide the vision and key objectives guiding the essential science and technology efforts that will assure the continued supremacy of U.S. Naval forces in the 21st century. This plan implements the current guidance and direction of our senior civilian and military leadership. It focuses and aligns Naval S&T with Naval missions and future capability needs that address the complex ... |
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| Promises of Graphene Nanoelectronics |
Aug-2008 |
2 pages |
| Authors:
Chagaan Baatar; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Graphene is a single atomic layer of carbon atoms arranged into a two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal lattice. Since its discovery in 2004 by physicists [1], single layer graphene has been produced by many different methods and sample quality has steadily improved [2]-[4]. |
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| Navy MANTECH 2008 Project Book |
01-Jan-2008 |
138 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Managed within the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Navy ManTech Program provides for the development of enabling manufacturing technology and the transition of this technology for the production and sustainment of Navy weapon systems to support the Fleet. Navy ManTech is currently focused on shipbuilding affordability. Reducing the acquisition cost of current and future platforms is a critical goal of the Navy, and ManTech aids in achieving this goal ... |
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| The International C2 Journal, Volume 2 Number 1, 2008. Special Issue: Awareness. Tightly Coupling Cognition: Understanding How Communication and Awareness Drive Coordination in Teams |
Jan-2008 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Eduardo Salas; Norman Warner; Michael Letsky; Michael A Rosen; Stephen M Fiore; Geoffrey N Hone; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The International C2 Journal was created in 2006 at the urging of an international group of command and control professionals including individuals from academia, industry, government, and the military. This issue discusses this topic: Modern and future visions of command and control (C2) pose new theoretical and practical issues. These adaptive, rapidly reconfigurable, and distributed organizational structures rely on developing and maintaining shared awareness between interdependent components (i.e., individuals or ... |
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| Text Mining the Biomedical Literature |
05 NOV 2007 |
381 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Text mining of the biomedical literature provides patterns of relationships among concepts, people, and institutions, offering enhanced medical/technical intelligence unobtainable by other means. This report describes myriad text mining capabilities. Section 1 covers biomedical knowledge management, the role of text mining in knowledge management, and describes the cultural changes and global agreements required to allow the full power and capabilities of text mining to be utilized. The next two sections ... |
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| Literature-Related Discovery: A Review |
05 NOV 2007 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Joel A. Block; Jeffrey L. Solka; Michael B. Briggs; Robert L. Rushenberg; Jesse A. Stump; Dustin Johnson; Terence J. Lyons; Jeffrey R. Wyatt; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Discovery in science is the generation of novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge about the objects of study. Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two or more literature concepts that have heretofore not been linked to produce novel interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge (i.e., potential discovery). Two major variants of LRD are open discovery systems (ODS), where one starts with a problem and generates a potential solution (or vice ... |
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| Literature-Related Discovery (LRD) |
01 NOV 2007 |
884 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Joel A. Block; Jeffrey L. Solka; Michael B. Briggs; Robert L. Rushenberg; Jesse A. Stump; Dustin Johnson; Terence J. Lyons; Jeffrey R. Wyatt; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Discovery in science is the generation of novel, interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge about the objects of study. Literature-related discovery (LRD) is the linking of two or more literature concepts that have heretofore not been linked (i.e., disjoint), in order to produce novel interesting, plausible, and intelligible knowledge (i.e., potential discovery). |
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| U.S. Marine Corps S&T Strategic Plan: Leading Edge Technology for the Marines of Tomorrow |
AUG 2007 |
31 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| To provide a strategic plan for the Marine Corps Science and Technology (S&T) enterprise. The Plan focuses Marine Corps S&T efforts to pursue S&T initiatives and support experimentation of concept-based requirements to achieve future Marine Corps capabilities. Background: (a) The Marine Corps S&T Enterprise is an integral part of the larger Naval Research Enterprise (NRE). It is a collaborative effort between the Marine Corps Combat Development Command under the staff ... |
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| Command and Control for Homeland Security |
14-Jun-2007 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Marjorie Greene; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Partial contents: ProMED-mail, The Strategic Vision, The Detection of Emerging Infections Using An Epidemiologic Surveillance System, DHS Secretary established NIMS March 2004, INFORMS MAS Conference on Homeland Security June 2006, NIMS Revision Version 2 March 2007, NWDC Domestic Disaster Relief Operations Planning, 15 May 2006, AFRL-Supported Studies on Large- Scale Coordination, A Sociotechnical Systems Analysis of the Toronto SARS Outbreak, Vertical Integration, Vertical Integration in a Military Command Hierarchy, Information ... |
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| Macrocognition in Complex Team Problem Solving |
01-Jun-2007 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Eduardo Salas; Norman Warner; Michael Letsky; Michael Rosen; Stephen M Fiore; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Defense transformation has dictated that coalition operations, joint force actions and multinational response teams will all be integral to the force of the future. Therefore, a critical objective of C2 in the 21st Century will be to accomplish Knowledge Interoperability. Missions will be interconnected and interdependent, sociotechnical factors will increase, and cognitive work will be distributed among people and machines. This increases the need for teams to plan, think, decide, ... |
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| Applying Spatial-Temporal Model and Game Theory to Asymmetric Threat Prediction |
JUN 2007 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Mo Wei; Genshe Chen; Jr. Cruz Jose B.; Leonard Haynes; Martin Kruger; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Accurate predictions of enemy course of actions "ECOA" are important to the command and control optimization strategies in long-lasting battles. In most Command and Control "C2" applications, the existing techniques, such as spatial-temporal point models for ECOA prediction or Discrete Choice Model "DCM", assume that insurgent attack features/patterns, or at least the trends of behavior patterns, are static. However, this static assumption is no longer true for intelligent and organized ... |
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| The Seminal Literature of Anthrax Research |
MAY 2007 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Stephen A. Morse; Serkan Oncu; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| A chronically weak area in research papers, reports, and reviews is the complete identification of seminal background documents that formed the building blocks for these papers. A method for systematically determining these seminal references is presented. Citation-Assisted Background (CAB) is based on the assumption that seminal documents tend to be highly cited. Application of CAB to the field of Anthrax research is presented. While CAB is a highly systematic approach ... |
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| Naval S&T Strategic Plan: Defining the Strategic Direction for Tomorrow |
12 DEC 2006 |
45 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| This Naval Science and Technology (S&T) Strategic Plan describes how the Office of Naval Research (ONR) will enable the future operational concepts of the Navy and the Marine Corps. By design, it is a broad strategy that provides strong direction for the future, but it also retains sufficient flexibility and freedom of action to allow ONR to meet emerging challenges or alter course as directed by senior Naval leadership. ONR ... |
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| The Structure and Infrastructure of the Finnish Research Literature |
06 FEB 2006 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Rene Tshiteya; Christine A. Bowles; Tuure Tuunanen; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The structure and infrastructure of the Finnish research literature was determined. A representative database of technical articles was extracted from the Science Citation Index for the years 2003-2004, with each article containing at least one author with a Finnish address. Document clustering was used to identify the main technical themes (core competencies) of Finnish research. Four of the pervasive technical topics identified from the clustering (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communication, ... |
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| The Structure and Infrastructure of Chinese Science and Technology |
2006 |
504 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Michael B. Briggs; Robert L. Rushenberg; Christine A. Bowles; Michael Pecht; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| This report identifies and analyzes the science and technology core competencies of China. The first part of the study was performed in the 2003-2004 time frame, and analyzes databases containing 2000-2003 data for China. The second part of the report was sponsored in part by ONR Global, and contains an analysis of 2005 data from China. For the first part of the study, aggregate China publication and citation bibliometrics were ... |
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| Assessment of India's Research Literature |
2006 |
326 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Dustin Johnson; Christine A. Bowles; Simha Dodbele; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The structure and infrastructure of the India research literature was determined. A representative database of technical articles was extracted from the Science Citation Index for the years 1991, 2002, and 2005, with each article containing at least one author with an India address. Document clustering was used to identify the main technical themes (core competencies) of Indian research. Four pervasive technical topics identified from the clustering (films, alloys, crops, and ... |
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| Structure of the Anthrax Research Literature |
2006 |
266 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Stephen A. Morse; Serkan Oncu; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source global anthrax research literature. An anthrax-focused query was applied to the Science Citation Index/ Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) (SCI, 2006) databases. The anthrax research literature infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/ institutions/ countries, most cited authors/ journals/ documents) was obtained using bibliometrics, and the anthrax research literature technical structure (hierarchical taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics/ document clustering. ... |
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| A Cat's Eye Multiple Quantum Well Modulating Retro-reflector |
2006 |
4 pages |
| Authors:
W. S. Rabinovich; R. Mahon; P. Goetz; E. Waluschka; D. S. Katzer; S. Binari; G. C. Gilbreath; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| A new kind of modulating retro-reflector using cat's eye optics and a multiple quantum well electro-absorption modulator array is described. The device exhibits retroreflection over a 30 degree field of view and can support data rates of up to 50 Mbps using 1 mm pixels. The use of the device in free space optical communication is discussed. |
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| Structure of the Global Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Literature |
2006 |
1492 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Ray Koytcheff; Clifford G. Lau; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source global nanotechnology and nanoscience research literature. An extensive nanotechnology/ nanoscience-focused query was applied to the Science Citation Index/ Social Science Citation Index (SCI/ SSCI) databases. The nanotechnology/ nanoscience research literature technical structure (taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics, document clustering, and factor analysis. The nanotechnology/ nanoscience research literature infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/ institutions/ countries, most cited authors/ ... |
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| Novel Acoustic Techniques for Assessing Fish Schooling in the Context of an Operational Ocean Observatory |
2006 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Oscar Schofield; Scott Glenn; John Quinlan; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Fish aggregation is important in terms of biology, fisheries, and measurement, quantitative analyses of gregarious movement behaviors remain relatively rare (Turchin 1989). Fish aggregation has most often been studied in easily accessed fish or fish easily maintained in the laboratory such as minnows and dace (see a review in Pitcher and Parrish 1993). Measurements of fish aggregations are often difficult, particularly in pelagic environments. Our goal is to develop new ... |
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| Iraq: The Social Context of IEDs |
01-Jun-2005 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Montgomery McFate; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are among the deadliest weapons coalition forces face in Iraq, and defeating their use by insurgents is both essential and extremely challenging. Thus far, U.S. defense science and technology communities have focused on developing technical solutions to the IED threat. However, IEDs are a product of human ingenuity and human social organization. If we understand the social context in which they are invented, built, and used ... |
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| Fleet Protection Using a Small UAV Based IR Sensor |
01 MAY 2005 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
James R. Buss; Jr Ax George R.; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| A study was performed to define candidate electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) sensor configurations and assess their potential utility as small UAV-based sensors surveilling a perimeter around surface fleet assets. Requirements were identified, CONOPS defined, sensor spectral bands and attributes derived, sensor performance assessed over canonical Navy littoral environments, at-sea test data collected, processed and analyzed, and technology recommendations formulated. These topics are described below. |
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| DARWARS Developers' Guide: A BBN Technologies Document, Version 3.0 |
31 JAN 2005 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| U.S. military personnel who emerge from the Combat Training Centers (CTC) are the best trained in the world. DARWARS aims to bring the level of excellence achieved at the CTCs to all our forces, all the time, everywhere and to do so at a lower cost. BBN will achieve this vision with the creation of DARWorld - an innovative training environment that encompasses communities of members including trainees, instructors, subject ... |
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| DARWARS Architecture: A BBN Technologies Document |
31 JAN 2005 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| U.S. military personnel who emerge from the Combat Training Centers (CTC) are the best trained in the world. DARWARS aims to bring the level of excellence achieved at the CTCs to all our forces, all the time, everywhere and to do so at a lower cost. BBN will achieve this vision with the creation of DARWorld - an innovative training environment that encompasses communities of members including trainees, instructors, subject ... |
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| Energetic Systems and Nanotechnology - A Look Ahead |
01-Jan-2005 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Kavetsky; Judah Goldwasser; Davinder Anand; Hugh Bruck; Ruth Doherty; Ron Armstrong; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Amongst the military services, the Navy has taken a unique approach to developing energetic systems over the years, primarily due to the fact that our sailors "sleep on their munitions". While constantly striving for more powerful and effective energetic systems, there is corresponding emphasis, as well, on making sure these systems are insensitive to unplanned stimuli and do not operate until desired. Hence, the desire for "sixth generation energetic systems" ... |
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| Systematic Acceleration of Radical Discovery and Innovation in Science and Technology |
2005 |
84 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Literature-based discovery (LBD) is a systematic two-component approach to bridging unconnected disciplines (front-end component, back-end component) based on text mining procedures. LBD allows potentially radical discovery and innovation (radical discovery and innovation is used in the sense of discovery and innovation arising from unexpected insights originating in very disparate disciplines) to be hypothesized. Classically, the LBD front-end component has been used to identify the pool of potential discovery and innovation ... |
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| Science and Technology Metrics |
2005 |
979 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| This document describes the rationale for, and implementation of, the expanded use of the proper metrics in the evaluation of science and technology (S&T). The document starts with an Executive Overview and Conclusions regarding the application of metrics to the entire S&T development cycle, including its key role in setting incentives for S&T development. Then, after describing how the evolution of S&T has influenced the present burgeoning interest in quantitative ... |
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| Adjacency and Proximity Searching in the Science Citation Index and Google |
2005 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; John T. Rigsby; Ryan B. Barth; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| We have developed simple algorithms that allow adjacency and proximity searching in Google and the Science Citation Index (SCI). The SCI algorithm exploits the fact that SCI stopwords in a search phrase function as a placeholder. Such a phrase serves effectively as a fixed adjacency condition determined by the number n of adjacent stopwords (i.e., retrieve all records where word A and word B are separated by n words in ... |
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| The Military Utility of Understanding Adversary Culture |
2005 |
8 pages |
| Authors:
Montgomery McFate; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| This article argues that new adversaries and operational environments necessitate a sharper focus on cultural knowledge of the enemy. A lack of this knowledge can have grave consequences. Conversely, understanding adversary culture can make a positive difference strategically, operationally, and tactically. Although success in future operations will depend on cultural knowledge, the Department of Defense currently lacks the programs, systems, models, personnel, and organizations to deal with either the existing ... |
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| Science and Technology Citation Analysis is Citation Normalization Realistic |
08 SEP 2004 |
37 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Wendy L. Martinez; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| One method for assessing quality of research outputs across different technical disciplines is comparing citations received by the research output documents. However, cross-discipline citation comparison studies require discipline normalization, in order to eliminate discipline differences in cultural citation practices and discipline differences in number of active researchers available to cite. The definition of, and number of documents used to represent, a discipline become critical. This study attempted to determine whether ... |
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| Context-Dependent Conflation, Text Filtering and Clustering |
01 SEP 2004 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Joel A. Block; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The presence of trivial words in text databases can impact record or concept (words or phrases) clustering adversely. Additionally, the determination of whether a word or phrase is trivial is context-dependent. The objective of the present paper is to demonstrate a context-dependent trivial word filter to improve clustering quality. Factor analysis was used as a context-dependent trivial word filter for subsequent term clustering. Medline records for Raynaud's Phenomenon were used ... |
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| Research Program Peer Review: Purposes, Principles, Practices, Protocols |
01 JUN 2004 |
300 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The purposes, principles, practices, and protocols of research program peer review are described. While the principles are fundamentally generic, and apply to peer review across the full spectrum of performing institutions as well as manuscript, proposal, and program peer review, the focus of this report is peer review of proposed and ongoing research programs in federal agencies. Following the self-contained Executive Summary of factors for high-quality peer reviews, the report ... |
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| Integrating Bioenergetic and Foraging Behavior: The Physiological Ecology of Larval Cod (Gadus morhua) |
JUN 2004 |
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| Authors:
James J. Ruzicka; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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 | How do larval cod, Gadus morhua, balance foraging effort against the high cost of swimming in a viscous hydrodynamic regime? A respirometry system was developed to measure the activity metabolism of individual larvae. The cost of swimming was modeled as a power-performance relationship (energy expenditure as a function of swimming speed) and as the cost of transport (the cost to travel a given distance). The cost of transport was high ... |
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| Medical Surveillance for a Soldier Centered Battlespace Awareness |
JUN 2004 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Dylan D. Schmorrow; George Solhan; Amy A. Kruse; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Recent advances in sensor technologies have enabled a net centric view of the battlespace, substantially increasing situational awareness for the warfighter. However, this net centric awareness has yet to be extended to the status of the warfighters themselves. Medical technologies have progressed to the degree that portable, rugged, and wireless designs can be conceived of that could give coalition commanders and medical personnel a view of the health and well-being ... |
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| Science and Technology Text Mining: Electric Power Sources |
APR 2004 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Rene Tshiteya; Kirstin M. Pfeil; James A. Humenik; George Karypis; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Database Tomography (DT) is a textual database analysis system consisting of two major components: 1) algorithms for extracting multi-word phrase frequencies and phrase proximities (physical closeness of the multi-word technical phrases) from any type of large textual database, to augment 2) interpretative capabilities of the expert human analyst. DT was used to derive technical intelligence from a Power Sources database derived from the Science Citation Index (SCI). Phrase frequency analysis ... |
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| Overview: The U.S. Office of Naval Research Training Technology R&D |
APR 2004 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Susan F. Chipman; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a long, continuous, and distinguished tradition of support for research and development of advanced technologies for application to military training. This paper provides an overview of the history and structure of those research programs with emphasis on areas of major current activity: 1) basic research on tutorial dialog aiming for true natural language interaction capability for artificially intelligent training systems; 2) effective ... |
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| Data Source Discovery in Coalition Operations, Syndicate 2 Final Report |
APR 2004 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Robert J. Barton III; David Hall; Robert T. Pack; Karin Silvervarg; Jan T. Bjoerke; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The group addressed the issue of information and data source discovery in a real-time NATO or coalition operational environment. The group analyzed a conceptual approach to the design of an interactive visualization system to be used for data resource discovery. Needs and requirements are discussed through a process of answering (in part) six key questions that would guide system design. The group chose a usecase for illustration. The group concludes ... |
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| Science and Technology Text Mining: Strategic Management and Implementation in Government Organization |
01 MAR 2004 |
64 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Eliezer Geisler; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| This report focuses on the strategic role and the implementation of textual data mining (TDM) in government organizations, with special emphasis on TDM to support the management of science and technology (S&T). It begins by defining TDM, and discussing the strategic management process in federal government organizations and the role of TDM as an integral part of this process. The report then proceeds to describe some of the uses and ... |
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| Science and Technology Transition Metrics |
01 MAR 2004 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| On 27 October 1998, a workshop was convened by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to identify key metrics for NIOSH's Strategic Goals. The first NIOSH Strategic Goal (Conduct a targeted program of research to reduce morbidity, injuries, and mortality among workers in high- priority areas and high-risk sectors) was the major focus of the workshop. Its two related Objectives addressed 1) the success in implementing a ... |
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| Navy MANTECH Fiscal Year 2003 Annual Report |
01-Mar-2004 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Operator Centered Design of Ship Systems |
MAR 2004 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Susan F. Chipman; David E. Kieras; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Cognitive science research, much of it supported by the Office of Naval Research, is bringing about a scientific revolution in our understanding of the human operator. It is yielding computational theories of human cognition and perceptual/motor activity that provide precise quantitative predictions of important variables such as the times required to complete tasks or to learn them in training. Although the scope of coverage of these theories is limited and ... |
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| Distributed Machine Intelligence for Automated Survivability |
MAR 2004 |
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| Authors:
Katherine F. Drew; David Scheidt; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Future Naval platforms face new dynamic operational scenarios that demand more flexible performance. At the same time, reduced manning and lower total ownership costs are now major design and acquisition objectives. Improved warfighting capability can be achieved by reducing vulnerability to damage and failure events. Rapid system recovery from unanticipated damage using current doctrine and practice conflicts with today's reduced manning objectives. Decentralized ship system architectures and agent-based technologies promise ... |
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| Science and Technology Text Mining: Nonlinear Dynamics |
01 FEB 2004 |
192 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Michael F. Shlesinger; Rene Tshiteya; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Database Tomography (DT) is a textual database analysis system consisting of two major components: 1) algorithms for extracting multi-word phrase frequencies and phrase proximities (physical closeness of the multi-word technical phrases) from any type of large textual database, to augment 2) interpretative capabilities of the expert human analyst. DT was used to derive technical intelligence from an Nonlinear Dynamics database extracted from the combined Science Citation Index (SCI)/ Social Science ... |
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| The Navy's Program in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - A Look Ahead |
01-Jan-2004 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Robert Kavetsky; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The Navy anticipated in the early 1980s the possible opportunities nanoscience and nanotechnology might bring to building the "Navy After Next". The Office of Naval Research provided a leadership role in exploring those opportunities by creating focused programs and by organizing conferences that exposed the nation's scientists/engineers to many of these opportunities at the frontiers of science and technology. The Navy continues to provide leadership in the arenas of nanoscience ... |
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| Science and Technology Text Mining: Text Mining of the Journal Cortex |
2004 |
48 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Henry A. Buchtel; John Andrews; Kirstin M. Pfeil; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The stated mission of Cortex is the study of the inter-relations of the nervous system and behavior, particularly as these are reflected in the effects of brain lesions on cognitive functions. The purpose of this report is to explore the relationship between the stated mission and the executed mission as reflected by the characteristics of papers published in Cortex. In addition, we examine whether the results and conclusions of an ... |
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| Science and Technology Peer Review: GPRA |
30 NOV 2003 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| This report describes practical issues for federal agencies to consider if they choose program peer review for internal purposes and/ or to contribute to satisfying the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). For description purposes, the peer review process is divided into the following five phases: 1. Initiation of the review 2. Establishing the foundations for the review 3. Preparing for the review 4. Conducting the review ... |
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| Science and Technology Text Mining: Hypersonic and Supersonic Flow |
17 NOV 2003 |
47 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Henry J. Eberhart; Darrell R. Toothman; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Database Tomography (DT) is a textual database analysis system consisting of two major components: 1) algorithms for extracting multi-word phrase frequencies and phrase proximities (physical closeness of the multi-word technical phrases) from any type of large textual database, to augment 2) interpretative capabilities of the expert human analyst. DT was used to derive technical intelligence from a hypersonic/ supersonic flow (HSF) database derived from the Science Citation Index and the ... |
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| Macromolecule Mass Spectrometry: Citation Mining of User Documents |
14 NOV 2003 |
90 pages |
| Authors:
Ronald N. Kostoff; Clifford D. Bedford; Jesus A. del Rio; Hector D. Cortes; George Karypis; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| Identifying research users, applications, and impact is important for research performers, managers, evaluators, and sponsors. It is important to know whether the audience reached is the audience desired. It also is useful to understand the technical characteristics of the other research, development, and applications affected by the originating research, and to understand other characteristics (e.g., names, organizations, countries) of the users affected by the research. Because of the many indirect ... |
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| Sensor Management and Multisensor Fusion Algorithms for Tracking Applications |
23 SEP 2003 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Lucy Y. Pao; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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| The objective of the research under this Office of Naval Research award is to develop multisensor management and fusion algorithms for tracking applications. Under this award the author has achieved a number of results: (1) developed a decorrelated sequence method for distributed fusion that is amenable to general distributed architectures; (2) compared a number of recently proposed multisensor, multitarget tracking algorithms to better understand which algorithms perform better in certain ... |
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