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THIS PROPOSED PHASE I RESEARCH PROJECT PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW REGIONAL SEISMIC DISCRIMINANTS, DEVELOPA STATISTICAL METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING EVENTS, DEVELOP QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES FOR ALLOWING FOR EFFECTS OF NOISE AND REGIONAL PROPAGATION EFFECTS ON DISCRIMINANTS, AND TO STATISTICALLY ANALYZE THE DISCRIMINATION CAPABILITY OF THESE REGIONAL DISCRIMINANTS. THE LARGE DATABASE OFREGI ...

SMART MATERIALS OFFER EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES. SMART MATERIALS ARE A NEW CLASS OF MATERIALS, WHICH CONTAIN THEIR OWN INTERNAL SENSOR, ACTUATOR AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, ELEMENTS. THESE STRUCTURALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY INTEGRATED ELEMENTS GIVE THE MATERIAL THE CAPABILITY TO DETECT CHANGES IN ITS ENVIROMENT, CHANGE ITS STRUCTURAL, ELECTROMAGNETIC AND/OR CHEMICA ...

FIBER MATERIALS, INC. (FMI) PROPOSES A PROGRAM TO DEVELOP A NEW CLASS OF SMART MATERIALS WHICH HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF SENSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND RESPONDING TO IT IN A DESIRED MANNER. PIEZOELECTRIC SENSORS AND ACTUATORS WILL BE COUPLED ELECTRICALLY TO FORM THE SMART MATERIAL STRUCTURE. A NEW TYPE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL CONTAINING PIEZOELECTRIC TUBES WILL BE DEVELOPED FOR HIGH ACTUATION WITH LO ...

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IMPROVED SPACECRAFT SHIELDING CAN BE REALIZED THROUGH CERAMIC AND ADVANCED ARMOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM MILITARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN THE MASS EFFICIENCY, THE EFFECTIVENESS AND THE COST BENEFIT OF SPACECRAFT SHIELDING WILL RESULT. OUR MATERIAL SELECTION, DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM WILL FURTHER THE STATE OF THE ART IN ADVANCED SPACECRAFT ARMORS. INT ...

Simulations and their measurement involve careful experiment design, data gathering and data analysis. The final results obtained from the data analysis only characterize the system behavrior for the range of input parameters covered. Although extrpolation can be used to obtain results for nearby parameter values, it is not possible to ask "what if" questions for arbitrary parameter values. By inc ...

The goal of the proposed project is to develop a hybrid photonic inference machine to exploit the latent parallelism whic often underlines inferential or deductive processes. The resulting technology will not only serve to accelerate logical programs, but also other inferential processes involving search. In fact, a basic theme of artificial intelligence is that search is the foundation of intelli ...

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THE PROJECT PROPOSED WILL DEVELOP A SUITE OF METRICS FOR THE EVALUATION OF OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF IU SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF INDIVIDUAL SYSTEM COMPONENTS. THE METRICS WILL ADDRESS THE ISSUES OF THE GENERALITY AND STANDARDIZATION OF METRICS TO PERMIT CROSS-SYSTEM COMPARISONS. THE DIMENSIONS TO BE INVESTIGATED FOR METRICS DEVELOPMENT WILL INCLUDE: ACCURACY, COMPATIBIL ...

DOMAIN ANALYSIS (DA) HOLDS THE KEY FOR A SYSTEMATIC, FORMAL, AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF SOFTWARE REUSE. PROPOSED APPROACHES AND METHODS FOR DA ASSUME THAT DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE EXISTS AND IS READILY USABLE. EXPERIENCE INDICATES, HOWEVER, THAT ACQUIRING AND STRUCTURING KNOWLEDGE IS THE BOTTLENECK OF DA. A RECENT METHODOLOGY DEVELOPED BY REUSE, INC. FOR THE STARS PROGRAM (REUSE LIBRARY PROCESS MODEL, RLPM ...