| Engineer Force Structure within the HBCT |
Apr-2009 |
66 pages |
| Authors:
Nestor; Don A Jr; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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 | The purpose of this monograph is to analyze the Heavy Brigade Combat Team's (HBCT) engineer force structure to answer the following question: Does the HBCT have the necessary embedded engineer capabilities to conduct full-spectrum operations, rapidly transitioning between stability and major combat operations? The Army constructed the HBCT, one of the Army's primary tactical warfighting systems, for optimization in open and mixed terrain against conventional and irregular threats. However, its ... |
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| Carcinogenicity of Embedded Tungsten Alloys in Mice |
Mar-2009 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
John F Kalinich; JACKSON (HENRY M) FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ROCKVILLE MD
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| A variety of unique metal mixtures have entered the military arsenals of many countries in recent years. One such material is the tungsten alloys, which have been proposed as replacements for depleted uranium (DU) in armor-penetrating munitions. As a result, opportunities for exposure are increasingly likely. This leads to questions, similar to those originally surrounding DU, as to the health effects of exposure to the tungsten alloys, especially for embedded ... |
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| Hezbollah: The Network and Its Support Systems, Can They be Stopped? |
01-Jun-2008 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas S Philippone; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Not all terrorist organizations are rootless groups engaging only in international terrorism. Many terrorist groups are socially intertwined with the local population, highly territorialized, and directly compete for governance. Terrorist groups such as the IRA, Hamas, Mahdi Army, Sendero Luminoso, and Hezbollah are past and present examples of a socially intertwined terrorist organization. These groups present significant, but different challenges to our national security than Al Qaeda does and a ... |
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| Achilles' Head: Understanding the Challenges in Implementing Dependable and Secure Deeply Networked Military Embedded Systems |
21-Apr-2008 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
David K Sarji; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA
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| Embedded computing is an essential part of our military capacity. Experience with traditional information technology (IT) systems has made it abundantly clear that computing systems are subject to attacks, and that including security in the design process is a critical component in the development of new systems. However, developing secure embedded systems is not a simple matter of transferring security techniques from traditional information technology environments. Due to the strenuous ... |
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| ASSIP Study of Real-Time Safety-Critical Embedded Software-Intensive System Engineering Practices |
FEB 2008 |
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| Authors:
Peter H. Feiler; Dionisio de Niz; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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 | Modern weapon systems increasingly depend on real-time, safety-critical, embedded (RTSCE) software to achieve their mission objectives. In addition, these systems are experiencing far longer service lives than anticipated at their inception. Army weapon system developers are concerned that this combination of factors renders today's software acquisition and development practices insufficient to address the challenges of these software-intensive systems. To address the concern, the Army Strategic Software Improvement Program tasked the ... |
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| Embedded Media - A Force Multiplier or Force Divider |
16 MAY 2006 |
25 pages |
| Authors:
John A. Sipes; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The American public has a right to know how its nation's treasures are expended. The reinvigoration of the embedded media program during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) was implemented to accomplish just this mission. Embedded media participated in unprecedented numbers during OIF. Some 692 embedded media had the unique experience to live, work, sleep, and even die among the U.S. forces operating in Iraq. Some had preconceived agendas about how they ... |
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| Preconceptional Paternal Exposure to Embedded Depleted Uranium Fragments: Transmission of Genetic Damage to Offspring |
01 JAN 2006 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Alexandra C. Miller; HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ROCKVILLE MD
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| The Persian Gulf War resulted in friendly fire casualties among U.S. personnel injured by fragments of depleted uranium (DU) munitions. The demonstrated effectiveness of such weapons makes it likely that they may be used against U.S. forces in future conflicts. Uncertainty about how aggressively to remove fragments of the radioactive, chemically toxic DU has stimulated research into the long-term health consequences of embedded DU fragments. There has been no previous ... |
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| Embedding Luminescent Nanocrystals in Silica Sol-Gel Matrices |
2006 |
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| Authors:
Lindsey M. Sorensen; FLORIDA STATE UNIV TALLAHASSEE COLL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
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| We have synthesized stable, highly luminescent silica xerogels as well as optically transparent, stable aerogels that were embedded with 2.5 nm and 6 nm CdSe and 6 nm InP quantum dots. By capping the quantum dot with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane, a dot is able to condense within the structure of a forming silica gel. This network keeps the quantum dot in place during the solvent exchange procedure necessary to form low-density silica ... |
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| FCS Embedded Training: An Overview |
13-Dec-2005 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Chuck Moler; PROGRAM MANAGER FOR FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS WASHINGTON DC
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| The ultimate goal is to develop a transformed training capability that provides accurate, timely, relevant, and affordable training and mission rehearsal in support of specific operational needs. Training must be a living process with the ability to adapt and respond quickly to the dynamic challenges of the national security environment. This will require the ability to identify potential crises situations in real time; conduct course-of-action analyses; utilize continuously available networks ... |
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| Hiding Information under Speech |
12 DEC 2005 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGY BRANCH
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| Migration of a Real-Time Optimal-Control Algorithm: From MATLAB (Trademark) to Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) |
DEC 2005 |
113 pages |
| Authors:
II Moon Ron L.; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis presents an overarching plan to migrate a time-optimal spacecraft control algorithm from the MATLAB(Trademark) development environment into an FPGA-based embedded-platform development board. Research at the Naval Postgraduate School has produced a revolutionary time-optimal spacecraft control algorithm based upon the Legendre Pseudospectral method. Currently, the control algorithm is dependent on the MATLAB(Trademark) environment, a fourth generation language (4GL). 4GLs are powerful high-level abstraction and development tools, but are not ... |
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| Interactive Operations for Visualization of Ad-Hoc Sensor System Domains |
Nov-2005 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Mark A Livingston; Evan V Herbst; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC VIRTUAL REALITY LAB
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| Embedded sensors are envisioned to provide information about a variety of environments. One use of sensors is for military intelligence gathering in the field. Typically, these sensors are manually placed in an environment. In order to know whether the appropriate domain is covered by the sensor arrangement, we build an interface that provides visualizations of the sensor domains and coverage. To assist with planning the sensor layout, our new interface ... |
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| Carcinogenicity and Immunotoxicity of Embedded Depleted Uranium and Heavy-Metal Tungsten Alloy in Rodents |
OCT 2005 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
John F. Kalinich; Alexandra C. Miller; David E. McClain; HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ROCKVILLE MD
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| This study investigates the carcinogenic and immunotoxic potential of embedded fragments of depleted uranium (DU) and a heavy-metal tungsten alloy (WA). Male Fisher 344 rats were surgically implanted with pellets of DU, WA, tantalum (inert metal, negative control), or nickel (known carcinogen, positive control). We previously reported that implanted WA resulted in the rapid formation of tumors, identified as rhabdomyosarcomas, surrounding the pellets. In Year 4 we found that these ... |
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| An Open Environment for Rapid Embedded Planning of On-The-Move Communications Networks Using Multi-Level Abstraction |
OCT 2005 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Orest Ukrainsky; Harris Zebrowitz; Carl Hein; Andrew Cortese; Aron Rubin; Cindy Poon; Arnold Bard; Hector Reyes; LOCKHEED MARTIN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY LABS CHERRY HILL NJ
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| The rapid pace of future Net Centric Warfare requires that communication plans for mission specific demands be reduced from weeks/days to hours/minutes. The demands of the mobile networks change constantly as warfighters move their network infrastructure in response to battlefield dynamics, terrain, and logistics. There is a critical need for new technology to help automate the planning process for wireless on-the-move (OTM) networks. The Army's Communications Planner for Operational and ... |
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| Showtime: An Analysis of the Embedded News Media Program During the Pre-Combat and the Combat Phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom |
28 SEP 2005 |
100 pages |
| Authors:
Han Bouwmeester; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The embedded news media program has set a new model for media coverage of future conflict, because it was a win-win-win-situation for the military, the media and the public. The program enabled the military to provide the public with timely, accurate and fair information on the operation, without violating the OPSEC rules. The media, especially experts and producers, were hesitant to participate in the embedded program, because the program could ... |
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| Aerospace Sensor Component and Subsystem Investigation And Innovation-2 Component Exploration and Development (ASCII-2 CED). Delivery Order 0002: Volume 3 - Reconfigurable Aperture Antenna Virtual Prototyping (General Techniques for De-Embedding RF Passiv |
SEP 2005 |
22 pages |
| Authors:
Andrew W. Buurma; Roberto G. Rojas; OHIO STATE UNIV COLUMBUS DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
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| In this report, a rigorous investigation of the de-embedding of RF inductors and capacitors was presented. The typical parasitic impedances present in an RF test structure were discussed. Basic knowledge of these parasitics allows the designer to effectively adjust the test structures to account for any limitations imposed by the probe technology being used. Some technologies allow traces to be etched at arbitrary angles, making it possible for a coplanar ... |
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| A Spread Spectrum Approach to Next Generation Intrusion Detection |
24 AUG 2005 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Michael J. Medley; Stella N. Batalama; Dimitris A. Pados; STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK COLL OF TECHNOLOGY UTICA
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| The report describes a theoretical treatment of the tradeoffs among carrying capacity, distortion, and error recovery for spread spectrum solutions to message embedding approaches. For any given host image and (block) transform domain of interest signature vectors are derived that when used for spread-spectrum (SS) message embedding maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at the output of the corresponding maximum SINR linear filter receiver. Under a (colored) Gaussian assumption on the ... |
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| The Role of the Department of Defense Embedded Reporter Program in Future Conflicts |
07 JUN 2005 |
109 pages |
| Authors:
Raymundo Villarreal Jr; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| The embedded reporter program in Operation Iraqi Freedom was a huge undertaking, requiring extensive planning and coordination to organize and implement. The Department of Defense (DoD) invested much time and resources to help give the media relatively unfettered access to soldiers on the battlefield. A search on Google or any other search engine will yield a proliferation of articles and references on the embedded reporter topic. At present, there is ... |
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| FORGES: Formal Synthesis of Generators for Embedded Systems |
MAY 2005 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
Lindsay Errington; KESTREL INST PALO ALTO CA
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| A number of tools exist that allow engineers to construct models of embedded systems. Models are expressed in a variety of languages including domain specific languages. These models provide input to generators that: 1) produce code, test suites, views of components in the model, and/or 2) analyze or compose models. Generators, however, are often difficult and expensive to develop. Moreover, due to the safety critical nature of embedded systems, it ... |
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| Pin Component Technology (V1.0) and Its C Interface |
APR 2005 |
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| Authors:
Scott Hissam; James Ivers; Daniel Plakosh; Kurt C. Wallnau; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| Pin is a basic, simple component technology suitable for building embedded software applications. Pin implements the container idiom for software components. Containers provide a pre-fabricated "shell" in which custom code executes and through which all interactions between custom code and its external environment are mediated. Pin is a component technology for pure assembly -- systems are assembled by selecting components and connecting their interfaces (which are composed of communication channels ... |
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| Operation Iraqi Freedom Media Embedding: Wave of the Future or Flash in the Pan? |
18 MAR 2005 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Franklin Childress; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The Media Embedding program executed by the Department of Defense during Operation Iraqi Freedom is widely accepted as an overwhelming success for the military by most observers. My paper examines five controversial issues and their implications for the next war where media embedding is practiced. There is no doubt that the Media Embedding program that was launched by the Department of Defense in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom was one ... |
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| Job Embeddedness: A Construct of Organizational and Community Attachment Utilized to Asses Voluntary Turnover |
MAR 2005 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Richard E. Fletcher III; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The purpose of this research was to further refine and evaluate the extent to which job embeddedness influences voluntary turnover. Specifically, this thesis sought to determine the effectiveness of job embeddedness in explaining additional incremental variance in intent to leave, above what is usually accounted for with traditional attitudinal variables. Additionally, the individual effects of tenure, education level, organizational rank, and pay were evaluated to determine if they moderated the ... |
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| An Extension of the Theory of Job Embeddedness: An Investigation of Effect on Intent to Turnover of United States Air Force Members |
MAR 2005 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
Charles E. Hassell; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This study investigated the ability of Mitchell, Holtom, Lee, Sablynski, and Erze's (2001) job embeddedness construct to predict intent to turnover after considering the historical predictors of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, job search, and job alternatives. This study extended the research on job embeddedness by investigating the extent to which age, race, gender, and marital status would affect the relationship between job embeddedness and intent to turnover. Results indicated that ... |
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| Getting It Right: Operationalizing Civilian Capacity for Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments |
14 FEB 2005 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
James A. McNaught; NAVAL WAR COLL NEWPORT RI JOINT MILITARY OPERATIONS DEPT
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| The U.S. Government must develop and institutionalize mechanisms to identify, train, and deploy civilian expertise in a unified manner with military command structures from the outset of conflict to accomplish the political-military objectives of complex contingency and Phase IV post-conflict operations. Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom starkly demonstrated the need for standardized procedures to deliver civilian expertise to the tactical level, but more importantly to deliver it to ... |
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| Amending Moore's Law for Embedded Applications: Panel Discussion |
01 FEB 2005 |
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| Authors:
David R. Martinez; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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| DoD Embedded Processing Applications: Future systems need: 1) Higher performance with reduced cost, size, weight, and power consumption; 2) Adaptability, flexibility, scalability, reconfigurability; 3) High bandwidth internal and network data communications. |
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| HPCS HPCchallenge Benchmark Suite |
01 FEB 2005 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
David Koester; Jack Dongarra; Piotr Luszczek; MITRE CORP BEDFORD MA
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| The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) HPCchallenge Benchmarks examine the performance of High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures using kernels with more challenging memory access patterns than just the High Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark used in the Top 500 list. The HPCchallenge Benchmarks build on the HPL framework and augment the Top 500 list by providing benchmarks that bound the performance of many real applications ... |
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| Practical Issues in Real-World Implementation of Structural Health Monitoring Systems |
2005 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Shawn J. Beard; Amrita Kumar; Xinlin Qing; H. L. Chan; Chang Zhang; Teng K. Ooi; ACELLENT TECHNOLOGIES INC SUNNYVALE CA
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| Currently, there exist several different types of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems that are in the stage of development and/or are being tested for use in real-world applications. For a number of years, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have demonstrated feasibility in laboratory and controlled testing environments. Acellent has been developing and testing strategies to bring the SHM field to the next level. These include issues involved with system installation, ... |
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| Smart Layer and Smart Suitcase for Structural Health Monitoring Applications |
2005 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Mark Lin; Xinlin Qing; Amrita Kumar; Shawn J. Beard; ACELLENT TECHNOLOGIES INC SUNNYVALE CA
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| Knowledge of integrity of in-service structures can greatly enhance their safety and reliability and lower structural maintenance cost. Current practices limit the extent of real-time knowledge that can be obtained from structures during inspection, are labor-intensive and thereby increase life-cycle costs. Utilization of distributed sensors integrated with the structure is a viable and cost-effective means of monitoring the structure and reducing inspection costs. Acellent Technologies is developing a novel system ... |
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| Application-Specific Optical Interconnects for Embedded Multiprocessors |
DEC 2004 |
3 pages |
| Authors:
Neal K. Bambha; Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ADELPHI MD
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| Embedded systems are distinguished from general-purpose computers in that they consist of special-purpose hardware and software optimized for a specific task. They are pervasive in Army systems, appearing in soldier radios, sensor systems, vehicle control, communication systems, and many other applications. This paper focuses on multiprocessor embedded systems targeted towards signal, image, and video processing applications requiring large computing power and having real-time performance requirements. As transistor sizes shrink, interconnects ... |
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| MATLAB Algorithms for Rapid Detection and Embedding of Palindrome and Emordnilap Electronic Watermarks in Simulated Chemical and Biological Image Data |
DEC 2004 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
Ronny C. Robbins; ARMY ARMAMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMAND ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD EDGEWOOD (LAB) ACTIVITY
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| Electronic watermarks are used everyday to protect copyrighted materials on the web. But watermarks can also be used to inform the viewer of data (such as photographs and images) as to important aspects of the image such as ownership, location and environmental conditions during the image's creation. This paper examines the use of palindrome images, images in which the data can be flipped in the left-right direction and leave the ... |
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| High-Order Accuracy Methods for the Modeling and Design of Microoptics and Photonic Devices |
30 NOV 2004 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Jan S. Hesthaven; BROWN UNIV PROVIDENCE RI DIV OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
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| The goals of this effort have been the development of high-order accurate computational methods for wave problems in general and Maxwell's equations of electromagnetics in particular. The applications are general, but particular emphasis has been on optical applications. The authors have made substantial progress in the development and application of three different methods: time-domain, high-order finite difference embedding methods; boundary variation methods for multilayered optics; and discontinuous Galerkin methods for ... |
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| Service-Based Development of Embedded Systems |
08 NOV 2004 |
16 pages |
| Authors:
Leonid Kof; Bernhard Schaetz; Ingomar Thaler; Alexander Wisspeintner; TECHNISCHE UNIV MUENCHEN GARCHING (GERMANY) INSTITUT FUER INFORMATIK
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| Services as a basic notion are helpful in two respects: (1) services are used to structure the specification of a system, easing understand and reasoning about the system; and (2) services also can be used as the design principle of the implementation architecture. This paper presents an approach for developing software systems using services as the central development concept. A concrete case study, namely the development of a control unit ... |
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| SAE AADL: An Industry Standard for Embedded Systems Engineering |
30 SEP 2004 |
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| Authors:
Peter Feiler; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| SAE AADL and OSATE: ENABLERS OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS RESEARCH: Industry standard architecture modeling notation & model interchange format facilitates: Interchange of architecture models between contractors & subcontractors; Common architecture model for non-functional system property analysis from different perspectives; In-house prototyping of project specific architecture analysis & generation; Architecture research with access to industrial models; and industry exposure to research results. |
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| A Transformational Approach to High Performance Embedded Computing |
30 SEP 2004 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Wim Boehm; Jeffrey Hammes; COLORADO STATE UNIV FORT COLLINS
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| This paper describes a transformational, high-level language approach to High Performance Embedded Computing on the SRC-6 machine and its MAP reconfigurable hardware. A program is initially written in pure C and compiled by the MAP C Compiler. Then, using feedback from the MAP C compiler, the program is successively transformed manually to achieve better performance. These transformations avoid certain inefficiencies, such as re-reading values from memory, loop slowdown caused by ... |
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| High Performance Embedded Computing Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays |
30 SEP 2004 |
32 pages |
| Authors:
Charlie Cump; Craig Petrie; Malachy Devlin; Keith Regester; NALLATECH INC LOS ALTOS CA
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| Over the last decade, the performance capabilities of FPGAs have increased exponentially. Leading vendors such as Xilinx and Altera have improved the functionality of their reconfigurable devices through the inclusion of memory, processors, multi-gigabit transceivers, and multipliers to the basic FPGA architecture. The result is a flexible, high performance processing device able to perform low latency, parallel processing tasks with low power consumption. In order to exploit the obvious benefits ... |
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| The Second Path: The Role of Algorithms in Maintaining Progress in DSP |
30 SEP 2004 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Mark A. Richards; GEORGIA INST OF TECH ATLANTA
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| Digital Signal Processing is "...That discipline which has allowed us to replace a circuit previously composed of a capacitor and a resistor with two anti-aliasing filters, an A-to-D and a D-to-A converter, and a general purpose computer (or array processor) so long as the signal we are interested in does not vary too quickly." - Prof. Tom Barnwell, Georgia Tech |
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| Amending Moore's Law for Embedded Applications: Panel Session |
29 SEP 2004 |
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| Authors:
James C. Anderson; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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| OBJECTIVE: Identify and characterize factors that affect the impact of Moore's Law on embedded applications. Questions for the panel: 1) Moore's Law: What's causing the slowdown? 2) What is the contribution of Moore's Law to improvements at the embedded system level? 3) Can we preserve historical improvement rates for embedded applications? |
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| Amending Moore's Law for Embedded Applications |
29 SEP 2004 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
Richard W. Linderman; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE
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| CONTRIBUTION of Moore's Law to Improvements of Embedded Systems: * Price/Performance: Gigaflops/$M affordability * Memory Capacity: programming simplifications * Steep memory hierarchy: programming inefficiencies and complexities * New flexibilities: e.g., reconfigurable hardware * New complexities: software and parallelism * Dramatic new system capabilities. |
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| Requirements for Scalable Application Specific Processing in Commercial HPEC |
28 SEP 2004 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Steven Miller; SILICON GRAPHICS INC MOUNTAIN VIEW CA
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| More and more High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) leverages technology from commercial high performance computing systems. To date, HPEC has only tapped the lower end of commercial high performance computing technology. As more of the advanced commercial technology moves into the embedded space, this presents a unique opportunity to change the fundamentals of how HPEC solutions are addressed. Within HPEC, two types of application specific processing elements -- reconfigurable and ... |
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| Assessment of the DoD Embedded Media Program |
SEP 2004 |
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| Authors:
Richard K. Wright; William H. Harkey; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| The Department of Defense (DoD) Embedded Media Program provided an unprecedented opportunity for the media to report in real time on the military units and the Service members who executed combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Six hundred ninety two media personnel were embedded with ground units, on ships, and at air bases. This paper encompasses the period from initial planning in the summer 2002 through the end of ... |
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| A Configuration Protocol for Embedded Networked Devices on Secure Wireless Networks |
20 AUG 2004 |
10 pages |
| Authors:
Larry M. Sanders; Joseph B. Evans; Benjamin J. Ewy; KANSAS UNIV LAWRENCE INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
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| With the rise of wireless networking products based on the IEEE 802. 11 standard, traditional embedded networked devices are shedding their cables. As the cost and size of Wi-Fi chipsets continues to decrease and the number of deployed Wi-Fi networks increases, we are likely to see an explosion in Wi-Fi enabled embedded networked devices. Applications for traditional embedded networked devices span such areas as physical security systems, environmental monitoring and ... |
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| The Mercury System: Embedding Computation into Disk Drives |
20 AUG 2004 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Roger D. Chamberlain; Ron K. Cytron; Mark A. Franklin; Ronald S. Indeck; WASHINGTON UNIV ST LOUIS MO
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| Having inexpensive data storage has enabled the amassing of vast amounts of information. At present, these data sets far exceed the capacity of modern processors, so searching them has become a serious challenge. In a recent invited talk at the High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, John Reynders of Celera Genomics commented that, "The size of the databases we deal with is no longer measured in terabytes, but in exabytes." The ... |
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| Army Transformation to the Future Force...A Race for Speed and Precision |
20 AUG 2004 |
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| Authors:
John Parmentola; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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| These viewgraphs describe the Army's vision of the Future Force and addresses the Army's needs and challenges in High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) to enable transformation to the Future Force. The Army's Future Force will have a critical need for HPEC technologies throughout its system of systems, autonomous sensing and sensor fusion and complex communication tasks. The acute Army challenges for HPEC are cost, power consumption and physical size. The ... |
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| Health Maintenance System: An Application of Recovery Oriented Computing for HPEC Systems |
20 AUG 2004 |
12 pages |
| Authors:
Gerry Pocock; SKY COMPUTERS INC PEABODY MA
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| Until recently, the single aspect of HPEC systems that has been most critical has been "performance," in terms of processor speeds and I/O throughput. As processor speeds and I/O throughput have continued to increase, and as the capability to build larger and larger systems has improved, the need for raw performance is becoming less critical. Now, it is the ability to achieve a high level of application availability that is ... |
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| High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative (HPEC-SI) |
20 AUG 2004 |
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| Authors:
Jeremy Kepner; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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| The High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative is addressing the military's need to advance the state of embedded software development tools, libraries, and methodologies to retain the nation's military technology advantage in increasingly software-based systems. Key accomplishments include the completion of the first demonstration and the development of the Parallel VSIPL++ standard. Currently, the HPEC-SI effort is on track towards its goal of changing the state-of-the-practice in programming DoD HPEC ... |
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| An Update on CORBA Performance for HPEC Algorithms |
20 AUG 2004 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Bill Beckwith; OBJECTIVE INTERFACE SYSTEMS INC HERNDONVA
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| CORBA technology today surrounds HPEC-oriented subsystems. In recent years CORBA is getting used inside those subsystems, but mostly to facilitate communication with nodes outside the subsystem. It is now possible to implement CORBA ORBs that have the performance characteristics required by HPEC applications. This talk will describe the effort to modify the OMG CORBA specification to accommodate HPEC requirements, one HPEC ORB implementation, and preliminary measured performance data. CORBA provides ... |
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| Correlation-Based Watermarking Method for Image Authentication Applications |
AUG 2004 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Farid Ahmed; Ira S. Moskowitz; CATHOLIC UNIV OF AMERICA WASHINGTON DC DEPT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| We propose a correlation-based digital watermarking technique for robust image pattern authentication. We hide a phase-based signature of the image back into its Fourier magnitude spectrum in the embedding stage. The detector computes the Fourier transform of the watermarked image and extracts the embedded signature. Authentication performance is measured by a correlation test of the extracted signature and the signature computed from the watermarked image. The quality of the watermarked ... |
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| Live from the Battlefield: An Examination of Embedded War Correspondents' Reporting during Operation Iraqi Freedom (21 March-14 April 2003) |
JUN 2004 |
185 pages |
| Authors:
Michael J. Mooney; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the U.S. Department of Defense instituted a program to attach civilian journalists to coalition military units. Their purpose was to report firsthand on the military campaign to topple Saddam Hussein. These "embedded journalists," as they were called, would travel, eat, sleep, and endure the same hardships and dangers of the soldiers and Marines they were accompanying. While their immediate and highly dramatic accounts offered a ... |
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| Command and Control Embedded Training: Visualization of the Joint Battlespace |
JUN 2004 |
41 pages |
| Authors:
James Bernard; Carolina Cruz-Neira; Jim Oliver; Adrian Sannier; IOWA STATE UNIV AMES
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| Working with the Air Force Research Lab's Human Effectiveness Directorate and the Iowa National Guard's 133rd Air Control Squadron, a research team at the Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center have developed an immersive VR system for distributed mission training called the Virtual Battlespace. The Virtual Battlespace is evolving into a useful exercise planning, pre-briefing, and debriefing tool. The Virtual Battlespace allow participants to analyze airspaces and develop scenarios, ... |
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| Embedded System Architecture Analysis Using SAE AADL |
JUN 2004 |
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| Authors:
Peter H. Feiler; David P. Gluch; John J. Hudak; Bruce A. Lewis; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| The emerging Society of Automotive Engineers Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) standard is an architecture modeling language for real-time, fault-tolerant, scalable, embedded, multiprocessor systems. It enables the development and predictable integration of highly evolvable systems as well as analysis of existing systems. It supports early and repeated analyses of a system's architecture with respect to performance-critical properties through an extendable notation, a tool framework, and precisely defined semantics. This ... |
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