| Adding Semantic Support to Existing UDDI Infrastructure |
31 OCT 2005 |
58 pages |
| Authors:
Jim Luo; Bruce Montrose; Myong Kang; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIV
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 | Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is not capable of handling semantic markups for Web services due to its flat data model and limited search capabilities. In this paper, the authors introduce an approach to support semantic service description and match making with registries that conform to the UDDI V3 specification. Specifically, they discuss how to store complex semantic markups in a UDDI data model and use that information to ... |
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| Unmanned Systems Network-Centric Operations |
25 OCT 2005 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Chinh Nguyen; Raj Samuel; Hoa Nguyen; Daniel Carroll; Nhu-Nga Do; SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS COMMAND SAN DIEGO CA
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| This presentation describes the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego's (SSC San Diego), role in network-centric operations for unmanned systems. It is SSC San Diego's goal to be the nation's pre-eminent provider of integrated C4ISR solutions for warrior information dominance. These briefing charts cover the following topics: FORCEnet Services Infrastructure (FSI); Composeable FORCEnet; Enabling Technologies, such as Unmanned Vehicles, Sensors/Payloads, Secure Wireless Networks, Data Management and Fusion; Unmanned ... |
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| Terrorist Capabilities for Cyberattack: Overview and Policy Issues |
20 OCT 2005 |
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| Authors:
John Rollins; Clay Wilson; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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 | Tighter physical and border security may encourage terrorists and extremists to try to use other types of weapons to attack the United States. Persistent Internet and computer security vulnerabilities, which have been widely publicized, may gradually encourage terrorists to develop new computer skills, or develop alliances with criminal organizations and consider attempting a cyberattack against the critical infrastructure. Cybercrime increased dramatically between 2004 and 2005, and several recent terrorist events ... |
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| DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) Unified Modeling Language (UML)-Based Ontology Toolset (UBOT) |
OCT 2005 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Kogut; LOCKHEED MARTIN INTEGRATED SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS KING OF PRUSSIA PA
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| The objective for the UBOT project was to reduce the barriers for adoption of Semantic Web technology. The target adopters were DoD and Intelligence community software practitioners. The UBOT project focused on three major barriers: Ontology engineering is hard, Semantic markup creation is time consuming and expensive, and Semantic Web application engineering trade-offs are not well understood. The approach to reducing these barriers was to apply software engineering principles: automated ... |
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| Environmental Visualization and Horizontal Fusion |
Oct-2005 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
D Jones; K Wauchope; J Stroup; J Ballas; D Brown; T Tsui; J Cook; J Olsonbaker; R Carr; K Kerr; L Aker; WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
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| The Environmental Visualization (EVIS) project is a collaborative effort among the Naval Research Laboratory, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. The EVIS team, a multidisciplinary group of physical scientists, computer scientists, and human factors psychologists, is tailoring the weather and oceanographic information provided to military personnel. The participation of the EVIS team in the Horizontal Fusion (HF) program, (sponsored by the Assistant Secretary ... |
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| Agent-Based Systems Engineering |
OCT 2005 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
George Cybenko; Daniella Rus; THAYER SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING HANOVER NH
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| This project combines robust and proven concepts from traditional mathematical systems engineering with the technology of web-based agent systems, leading to new modeling paradigms and technical results for agent-based computing. The main goal of this project is to develop a scientific approach to agent-based computing using concepts and paradigms from classical systems and computer engineering. The techniques are applied to multi-agent system coordination and adaptation problems that arise in UAV ... |
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| Moving Target Information Exploitation Electronic Learning |
OCT 2005 |
30 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony Spina; FTL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INC UTICA NY
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| The objective of the MTIX E-Learning contract was to develop and deliver electronic On-Line Learning (OLL) capabilities for Moving Target Information eXploitation (MTIX) users and operators. OLL allows MTIX users to have their own personal mentor 24 hours a day. |
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| DOM-based Content Extraction of HTML Documents |
28 SEP 2005 |
11 pages |
| Authors:
Suhit Gupta; Gail Kaiser; David Neistadt; Peter Grimm; COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Web pages often contain clutter (such as pop-up ads, unnecessary images and extraneous links) around the body of an article that distract a user from actual content. Extraction of "useful and relevant" content from web pages has many applications, including cell phone and PDA browsing, speech rendering for the visually impaired, and text summarization. Most approaches to removing clutter or making content more readable involve changing font size or removing ... |
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| Fluid Methods for Modeling Large, Heterogeneous Networks |
21 SEP 2005 |
104 pages |
| Authors:
Don Towsley; Weibo Gong; Kris Hollot; Yong Liu; Vishal Misra; MASSACHUSETTS UNIV AMHERST DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Researchers from the University of Massachusetts developed fluid-based methodologies for characterizing the behavior of large IP networks handling large numbers of TCP and UDP flows. These methodologies provide for rapid and efficient rates of individual and aggregate flows. These fluid models were also applied to the problems of characterizing the spread of worms and viruses and to the cascade of failures within the BGP routing infrastructure. The resulting fluid models ... |
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| Selective Notification: Combining Forms of Decoupled Addressing for Internet-Scale Command and Alert Dissemination |
07 SEP 2005 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Jonathan C. Hill; John C. Knight; VIRGINIA UNIV CHARLOTTESVILLE DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| By using an information survivability control system, the survivability of critical networked information systems can be enhanced using a variety of fault-tolerance mechanisms. Essential to the effective implementation of such mechanisms is communication from the error detection component to the various application nodes in the network. In this paper, we introduce a technique called Selective Notification for the communication of commands and alerts in very large distributed systems. The technique ... |
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| Distance Learning: A Way of Life-Long Learning |
SEP 2005 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
James Belanich; Franklin L. Moses; Kara L. Orvis; ARMY RESEARCH INST FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ALEXANDRIA VA RESEARCH AND ADVANCED CONCEPTS OFFICE
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| Modern learning technology assumes various names: distance learning, distributed training, computer-based training, web-based learning, or advanced distributed learning. No matter the name, the basic concept is using computer technology for instruction with no instructor or trainer immediately present. Technically, distance learning can include correspondence courses and other forms of "computer-free" instruction, but this report focuses on the use of computer technology since it is the predominant form of distance learning ... |
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| Designing an Effective Survey |
SEP 2005 |
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| Authors:
Mark Kasunic; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| A survey can characterize the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of a large group of people through the study of a subset of them. However, to protect the validity of conclusions drawn from a survey, certain procedures must be followed throughout the process of designing, developing, and distributing the survey questionnaire. Surveys are used extensively by software and systems engineering organizations to provide insight into complex issues, assist with problem solving, ... |
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| Automated Diversity in Computer Systems |
SEP 2005 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Stephanie Forrest; NEW MEXICO UNIV ALBUQUERQUE
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| Attackers penetrate a large number of computers by exploiting common vulnerabilities. The objective of this effort is to address this internet-wide weakness by introducing diversity into computers so that a successful attack on one computer does not necessarily work on another one, even though it may be running identical software. |
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| Internet Protocol (IP) Network Measurement, Characterization, Modeling, and Control for Self-Managed Networks |
SEP 2005 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
William S. Cleveland; Hui Chen; Bowei Xi; Jin Cao; PURDUE UNIV LAFAYETTE IN DEPT OF STATISTICS
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| IP network technology cannot continue on an ever-increasing course of technological complexity and yet require the kind of human intervention that is necessary today for network management. Networks must be self-managing. This can only be done by a system of measurement that copes with the dynamics of packet movement. This system must process the packet-level measurements into variables that characterize network behaviors, which then form the basis for control algorithms ... |
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| Taxonomy of Spyware and Empirical Study of Network Drive-By-Downloads |
SEP 2005 |
182 pages |
| Authors:
Mark A. Barwinski; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Spyware has rapidly become a major security concern in government and corporate networks as well as for home computers. Spyware is able to circumvent common security practices, funneling information to remote parties and consuming system resources with impunity. This malicious software has infiltrated common search engines and Internet sectors generally considered safe. Making use of browser vulnerabilities, spyware infection is wide-spread. This thesis considers common infection vectors and reviews current ... |
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| Prototyping a Web-Enabled Decision Support System to Improve Capacity Management of Aviation Training |
SEP 2005 |
151 pages |
| Authors:
Randall W. Bostick; William D. Booth II; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| For organizations with training pipelines, this study offers insights to help identify and minimize undesirable effects that may result from often unavoidable demand variations within a resource- and time-constrained environment. The highly complex Naval aviation training process is used as a case study. However, any organization with a training pipeline may find this study to be useful. Within a training pipeline, like any resource constrained production line, variability may cause ... |
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| Web-based OIF/OEF Mental Health Medical Record System |
SEP 2005 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Brett Schneider; WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER WASHINGTON DC
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| The group has cooperation with personnel in Iraq and in Germany who are ready to participate in the study. The research group has met several times and the final protocol is nearly complete. The group has a copy of the OIF/OEF intake form that is used in theater and will be working to map the data collected on that form to the data collected on the WRAMC Virtual Health Behavioral ... |
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| Medical Vanguard Diabetes Management Project |
SEP 2005 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Seong K. Mun; GEORGETOWN UNIV WASHINGTON DC
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| The Medical Vanguard Diabetes Management Project was designed to deploy an Internet based diabetes management system, MyCareTeam, into a number of existing diverse clinical environments and evaluate how such a stand-alone clinical information system can be integrated into diabetes management program. The diverse environments include the High-Risk Pregnancy Clinic at the National Naval Medical Center and Native American Communities throughout the United States. The GAO Report "Executive Guide: Measuring Performance ... |
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| Security Ontology for Annotating Resources |
31 AUG 2005 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Anya Kim; Jim Luo; Myong Kang; NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
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| Annotation with security-related metadata enables discovery of resources that meet security requirements. this paper presents the NRL Security Ontology, which complements existing ontologies in other domains that focus on annotation of functional aspects of resources. Types of security information that could be described include mechanisms, protocols, objectives, algorithms, and credentials in various levels of detail and specificity. The NRL Ontology is more comprehensive and better organized than existing security ontologies. ... |
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| Phase II-SOF Knowledge Coupler-Based Phase I XML Schema |
31 AUG 2005 |
9 pages |
| Authors:
Warren L. Whitlock; SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL COMMAND FORT GORDON GA
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| The 2002 digital version of the Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook (SOFMH) includes a comprehensive, searchable database of injuries and illnesses. While it is a complete digital reference source, its utility would be greatly enhanced if a healthcare provider could enter a patient's signs and symptoms into the SOFMH search template and access a list of diagnostic choices in an XML-tagged database. An analysis of the search function indicates that ... |
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| Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Agent Markup Language Computer Aided Knowledge Acquisition |
24 AUG 2005 |
450 pages |
| Authors:
Lee Lacy; DYNAMICS RESEARCH CORP ORLANDO FL
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| Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) supported DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) research by investigating potential military applications for Semantic Web technology. DRC developed a variety of ontologies to demonstrate the application of DAML technology and to identify challenges to military-specific applications. DRC's experience with ontology development and maintenance led to the development of ontology configuration management and versioning processes. Initial research under this contract has influenced the adoption of DAML by ... |
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| Agent Semantic Communication Services |
17 AUG 2005 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
John Li; Allan Terry; TEKNOWLEDGE CORP PALO ALTO CA
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| Agent Semantic Communication Services (ASCS) addressed a fundamental issue in the adoption and use of semantic technologies. It provided a semantic search engine with Web-scale architecture. Semantic search answers a logical query by return bindings for the unbound variables in the query. In information retrieval approaches such as Google, a large number of URIs are returned that contain one or more of the search keywords, ranked by an estimate of ... |
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| Coping with Overload on the Network Time Protocol Public Servers |
17 AUG 2005 |
13 pages |
| Authors:
David Mills; Judah Levine; Richard Schmidt; David Plonka; DELAWARE UNIV NEWARK
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| The public time servers operated by USNO and NIST provide time synchronization, directly or indirectly, to millions of Internet computers today. The load in the form of processor cycles and network traffic has doubled in the last 2 years and could eventually overwhelm the servers and the network infrastructure unless something is done about it. While both USNO and NIST operate multiple servers across the US, the aggregate load is ... |
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| Survivability Using Controlled Security Services |
17 AUG 2005 |
275 pages |
| Authors:
B. C. Neuman; Joseph Bannister; Dan Boneh; Gene Tsudik; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES INST
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| This document represents the final report on the SUCSES project funded by DARPA/ITO under the "Dynamic Coalitions" (DC) program. SUCSES' period of performance spanned roughly four years between August 1999 and September 2003. The document is organized as follows: First part contains the overview of the project's setting and its goals. We then present a summary of year-by-year technical achievements and activities. Next, we list all external results, including publications, ... |
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| Planning With Incomplete Knowledge for the Composition of Web Services |
AUG 2005 |
39 pages |
| Authors:
Evern Sirin; James Hendler; Dana Nau; MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK
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| Web Services is an emerging paradigm in which very loosely coupled software components are published, located, and invoked on the Web as parts of distributed applications. Web Services provide a new way of distributed computing where the interoperability between diverse applications is achieved through platform and language independent interfaces. The main focus of Web Services is the ability to easily combine existing components to create compositions that provide novel functionality ... |
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| Some Current Approaches to Interoperability |
AUG 2005 |
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| Authors:
David Carney; David Fisher; Ed Morris; Pat Place; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST
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| This technical note examines some of the complexities of interoperability and some recent research approaches to achieving it. There are many reasons why achieving interoperability between complex, heterogeneous systems is difficult. These include the problem of semantics; the differences between hardware and software; the difference between bounded and unbounded software systems; the need for trust, trustworthiness, and security in software systems; and the difficulty of quantifying interoperability. Many research efforts ... |
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| A System for Discovering Bioengineering Threats by Knowledge Base Driven Mining of Toxin Data |
AUG 2005 |
33 pages |
| Authors:
Subramanyam Swaminathan; I. V. Ramakrishnan; M. Kifer; H. Davulcu; BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LAB UPTON NY
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| The overall goal of this project is to establish a Toxin Knowledge Base (TKB) a bioinformatics resource primarily focused on molecular information about toxins and other virulence factors that are the natural products of biological and potential biological warfare (RW and PBW) agents. The resource will be mined to assimilate synthesize, analyze and disseminate genomic and structural information on BW and PBW genes and their products. The TKB will be ... |
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| Core Semantics for Public Ontologies |
AUG 2005 |
23 pages |
| Authors:
Niranjan Suni; UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA PENSACOLA INST FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION
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| The World Wide Web contains a large amount of information which is currently being represented using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the Extensible Markup Language (XML). However, HTML and XML have a limited capability to describe the relationships (schemas or ontologies) with respect to objects. The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) through the use of ontologies provides a very powerful way to describe objects and their relationships to other ... |
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| NASA's Earth-Sun System Gateway: An Open Standards-based Portal to Geospatial Data and Services |
25 JUL 2005 |
5 pages |
| Authors:
John D. Evans; Myra J. Bambacus; GLOBAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC GREENBELT MD
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| NASA's Earth-Sun System Gateway (ESG) streamlines access to remote geospatial data, imagery, models, and visualizations through open, standard Web protocols. By organizing detailed metadata about online resources into a flexible, searchable registry, it lets scientists, decision-makers, and others access a wide variety of observations and predictions of natural and human phenomena related to Earth Science and the Earth-Sun System, from NASA and other sources. We detail ESG's technical design; its ... |
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| Development of Ionospheric Assimilation and Forecasting System |
22 JUL 2005 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Boris Khattatov; Michael Murphy; Marianna Gnedin; Tim Fuller-Rowell; Valery Yudin; Jason Boisvert; Jeff Sheffell; FUSION NUMERICS INC BOULDER CO
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| This report was developed under Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for Topic AFO3-016. This interim report describes current progress in developing an ionospheric modeling and forecasting system sponsored by AFRL. We outline design of the physics-based numerical Ionospheric model that serves as a core of the system and the data assimilation framework for constraining the model with GPS measurements of ionospheric electron content. A newly developed scheme for estimating ... |
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| ARN Program, PDIT Final Technical Report - Deliver Orders 3, 12, 13 |
05 JUL 2005 |
161 pages |
| Authors:
Michael H. O'Connell; PRODUCT DATA INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES INC LONG BEACH CA
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| The DLA and DSCP sponsored Apparel Research Network (ARN) program's primary goals are to reduce total supply chain costs and inventory levels while minimizing retail shortages. The foundation for the achievement of these goals is the existence of a web accessible database that provides total supply chain asset visibility to all functions that make decisions or consume apparel items. PDIT's ARN assignments were to create the web accessible database, create ... |
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| Interleaving Semantic Web Reasoning and Service Discovery to Enforce Context-Sensitive Security and Privacy Policies |
JUL 2005 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
Jinghai Rao; Norman Sadeh; CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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| Enforcing rich policies in open environments will increasingly require the ability to dynamically identify external sources of information necessary to enforce different policies (e.g. finding an appropriate source of location information to enforce a location-sensitive access control policy). In this paper, we introduce a semantic web framework and a meta-control model for dynamically interleaving policy reasoning and external service discovery and access. Within this framework, external sources of information are ... |
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| The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Vision and Getting From Here To There |
JUL 2005 |
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| Authors:
J. D. Fletcher; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative was undertaken by the Department of Defense (DoD) at the request of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and in cooperation with the other Federal Agencies. Its goal is to make education, training, and performance aiding accessible anytime and anywhere. This goal is being pursued through intense and frequent interactions among industry, government, and academic participants. ADL specifications are now ... |
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| Evaluation of Two Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Systems |
JUN 2005 |
71 pages |
| Authors:
Keith G. Labbe; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Host-based intrusion-prevention systems are recently popular technologies that protect computer systems from malicious attacks. Instead of merely detecting exploits, the systems attempt to prevent the exploits from succeeding on the host they protect. This research explores the threats that have led to the development of these systems and the techniques many use to counter those problems. The author then evaluates two current intrusion- prevention products (McAfee Entercept and the Cisco ... |
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| Quality Evaluation Tool for Computer - and Web-Delivered Instruction |
JUN 2005 |
175 pages |
| Authors:
ITT/MARTIN MARIETTA JOINT VENTURE ORLANDO FL
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| The objective of this effort was to develop an Instructional Quality Evaluation Tool to help instructional developers and instructional program managers quantitatively determine the quality of their instructional products, both during development and at project completion. The Tool can also support the comparison of courseware from different developers or courseware that uses different combinations of instructional media. Likert scaling techniques were used to develop 5-point rating scales for each evaluation ... |
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| Army Selective Reenlistment Bonus Management System: Functional and User Documentation |
JUN 2005 |
63 pages |
| Authors:
Patrick Mackin; Ken O'Brien; SAG CORP FALLS CHURCH VA
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| As part of a larger research project examining the behavioral effects of changes in selective reenlistment bonus (SRB) levels on reenlistments, ARI designed and developed a modeling system that permits users to project changes in the number of SRB takers and in program cost for alternative SRB plans. This report provides a functional description of the system's underlying algorithms and also includes user documentation for the two system components - ... |
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| The New Global Information Economy: Implications and Recommendations for Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) |
JUN 2005 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Tim Bass; William Donahue; SILKROAD INC MCLEAN VA
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| EMERGING CONCEPTS: (1) Information networks are complex systems and the complexity is accelerating; (2) The dynamics of complex internets are dominated by the notion of self-organization and emergent behavior at the "edge;" (3) Net-centric concepts are rapidly evolving to information-centric, peer-to-peer, digital information sharing and digital rights management; (4) Information-centric means a transformation from industrial-age economics to information-age economics. |
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| Deep Versus Broad Methods for Automatic Extraction of Intelligence Information From Text |
JUN 2005 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Neil C. Rowe; Jonathan Wintrode; Jason Sparks; Jonathan Vorrath; Matthew Lear; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Extraction of intelligence from text data is increasingly becoming automated as software and network technology increases in speed and scope. However, enormous amounts of text data are often available and one must carefully design a data mining strategy to obtain the relevant nuggets of gold from the mountains of useless dross. Two strategies can be tried. A deep approach is to use a few strong clues to find reasonable sentence ... |
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| Towards a Formal Ontology for Military Coalitions Operations |
JUN 2005 |
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| Authors:
Eric Dorion; Christopher J. Matheus; Mieczyslaw M. Kokar; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER (QUEBEC)
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| The goal of this paper is to raise some of the fundamental questions that underpin the development of formal ontologies, especially the ones that are used for systems interoperability. To realize this, the three authors independently collaborated on different aspects of this paper. In this way, questions naturally arose from the review of each others work. In essence, this paper represents the genesis of the authors collaboration and constitutes for ... |
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| Using the Internet to Collaborate with Consumers in Redefining a Psychosocial Agenda for Families with Hereditary Breast Cancer |
JUN 2005 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
James C. Coyne; Pamela J. Shapiro; PENNSYLVANIA UNIV PHILADELPHIA
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| Women at increased risk of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancers (HBOC) and their families face dilemmas about testing, risk management and family dissemination of results on their own. They face problems regarding the accuracy of the information they have received, difficulties accessing new information and specialized services, and resistance and misinformation from inadequately informed health care professionals in the community. Thus, they are forced to develop their own informal means ... |
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| Web-Based Dissemination System for the Trusted Computing Exemplar Project |
JUN 2005 |
152 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas R. Kane Jr; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Open dissemination of the Trusted Computing Exemplar (TCX) project is needed. This dissemination must include methods to provide secure web access to project material, integrity verification of data, and group-based access controls. Because previously developed dissemination systems do not meet these requirements, a hybrid web-based dissemination system is necessary. The development of the TCX Dissemination System requirements involved the analysis of assumptions, threats, policies, and security objectives for the system ... |
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| The SAFE Acts of 2005: H.R. 1526 and S. 737 -- A Sketch |
09 MAY 2005 |
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| Authors:
Charles Doyle; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| Somewhat different SAFE Acts have been introduced in both the House and Senate: S. 737, the Security and Freedom Enhancement Act of 2005 (introduced by Senator Craig) and H.R. 1526, the Security and Freedom Ensured Act of 2005 (introduced by Representative Otter). Although the Senate bill is more detailed, they address many of the same issues, most of which relate to the USA PATRIOT Act -- roving Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ... |
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| Security and Freedom Ensured Act (SAFE Act) (H.R. 1526) and Security and Freedom Enhancement Act (SAFE Act) (S. 737): Section by Section Analysis |
09 MAY 2005 |
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| Authors:
Charles Doyle; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| Two SAFE Acts, S. 737 and H.R. 1526, address some of the issues raised by the USA PATRIOT Act. They amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to require that FISA surveillance orders identify either the target or the facilities or places targeted. They limit delayed notification of sneak and peek searches to cases involving exigent circumstances (injury, flight, destruction of evidence, witness intimidation risks) and cap the extent of ... |
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| Ports, Protocols, and Services Management Process for the Department of Defense |
MAY 2005 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
David R. Basel; Dana Foat; Cragin Shelton; DEFENSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AGENCY ARLINGTON VA
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| All automated information systems (AIS) used on Department of Defense (DoD) data networks must register the data communication modes identifying the ports, protocols, and application services (PPS) used, and the network boundaries crossed. Compliance with the PPS requirements will reduce development time and cost, increase security, speed certification and accreditation steps, enhance AIS interoperability across the department, and speed operational deployment of all new and updated AIS in DoD. This ... |
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| A Collaboration Network for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operation, Research and Education |
MAY 2005 |
27 pages |
| Authors:
Al White; AIR FORCE ACADEMY COLORADO SPRINGS CO INST FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS
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| The type and number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is increasing rapidly. However, operational UAVs are a high-demand, low-density asset and access is extremely limited due to higher priority taskings of these systems. Researchers and developers of UAV related systems, operations, and training rarely have access to an operational quality UAV and must resort to building their own systems. The effort required in developing a fully functional UAV system coupled ... |
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| Technological, Social, and Economic Trends That Are Increasing U.S. Vulnerability to Insider Espionage |
MAY 2005 |
42 pages |
| Authors:
Lisa A. Kramer; Richards J. Heuer Jr.; Kent S. Crawford; DEFENSE PERSONNEL SECURITY RESEARCH CENTER MONTEREY CA
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| This study explores ten technological, social, and economic trends in the United States and globally that are serving to increase opportunity and motivation for espionage. Findings suggest that American "insiders" have an unprecedented level of access to classified and proprietary information due to technological advances in information storage and retrieval. American employees have greater opportunity to establish contact with foreign entities and to transfer information to them through traveling internationally ... |
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| Lessons Learned from the Evolution of Mandatory Adverse Event Reporting Systems |
MAY 2005 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Ellen Flink; C. L. Chevalier; Angelo Ruperto; Peg Dameron; Frederick J. Heigel; Ruth Leslie; Janet Mannion; Robert J. Panzer; AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY ROCKVILLE MD
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| New York State has had a mandatory incident reporting system in place since 1985. The current system, the New York Patient Occurrence Reporting and Tracking System (NYPORTS), was implemented in 1998 pursuant to New York State Public Health Law Section 2805-1, Incident Reporting. NYPORTS is a secure Web- based system that simplifies reporting, coordinates with other reporting systems, and allows hospitals to obtain feedback on their own reporting patterns. The ... |
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| The AAFP Patient Safety Reporting System: Development and Legal Issues Pertinent to Medical Error Tracking and Analysis |
MAY 2005 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Robert L. Phillips; Susan M. Dovey; John S. Hickner; Deborah Graham; Michele Johnson; AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY ROCKVILLE MD
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| The Institute of Medicine makes the case that patient safety data are a critical input for redesigning care processes in ways that will make health care safer. Mandatory and voluntary error-reporting systems are sources of such data. However, a chasm of legal and practical problems exists between the collection of error reports and responding to reporting providers to improve the quality and safety of the systems in which they work. ... |
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| Multi-National Information Sharing -- Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment (CDCIE) Solution. Revision 4 |
12 APR 2005 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Boyd Fletcher; Dana Hare; UNITED STATES JOINT FORCES COMMAND NORFOLK VA
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| In February 2004, the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) began its efforts to provide a near-term Multinational Information Sharing (MNIS) solution to support Warfighters operating in a coalition environment. The JFCOM Joint Futures Laboratory (JFL) solution to MNIS is the Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment (CDCIE). The CDCIE is a suite of standards-based and largely open source code applications that provide the capability to collaborate, share and manage documents, and use ... |
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| Infrastructure Operations Tools Access (IOTA)/Trusted Transfer Agent (TTA) |
APR 2005 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Jim Muller; NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORP ROME NY DEFENSE MISSION SYSTEMS
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| Northrop Grumman provides a description of the technical architecture of IOTA, with a focus on the security architecture (TTA) and the initial instantiation of IOTA in the ISAIAH prototype. The report describes IOTA web services for information handling, transformation, and management and the component framework helps support the Air Force implementation of the Net- Centric Enterprises Services (NCES) and the larger Global Information Grid Enterprise Services (GIGES). The method utilized ... |
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