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Although great strides have been taken to generate and render problem geometries using computer automated design packages, as well as advancements in the the development of computational electromagnetics codes to solve Maxwell's equations, the link between the two is still very weak. Practical geometries have complex geometric features, abrupt changes in electromagnetic constitutive parameters, an ...

Arca Systems proposes to initiate the design and development of an intrusion detection system for the GCCS LES (and similar environments). Many current intrusion detection tools are Unix-based, focused on a single host or on a generally homogeneous distributed environment. The notional GCCS LES environment makes extensive use of distributed architecture, using support from the COTS technologies ...

THE SBIR PHASE I PROJECT PROPOSED CONSISTS OF THE TESTING OF THE CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE OF SEVERAL RELATED MACHINE LEARNING METHODS TO SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION. SEVERAL OTHER APPLICATIONS OF THESE METHODS ARE ALSO SUGGESTED. IN THE APPLICATION TO DISCRIMINATION, THE FOLLOWING DATA SETS WILL BE USED: REGIONAL ARRAY DATA FOR EARTHQUAKES AND QUARRY BLASTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN REGIONS, IRIS DATA RECO ...

IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, ONTOLOGY IS THE TASK OF EXTRACTING THE NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF A GIVEN EINGEERING, MANUFACTURING, BUSINESS, OR LOGISTICAL DOMAIN AND STORING IT INAN EXPRESSIVELY RICH, USABLE, COMPUTATIONALLY FEASIBLE REPRESENTATIONAL MEDIUM. AN ARRAY OF ONTOLOGY DATABASES IN USE ACROSS A WIDE VARIETYOF SUCH SYSTEMS WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE TASKS OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT A ...

For this Phase I effort, Observera proposes to develop an attribute based system for automated image quality assessment of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery. Observera's expertise in SAR image analysis, image quality assessment and digital image processing algorithms are uniquely suited to this program. The imagery community uses the Radar National Imagery Interpretation Rating System (RNII ...

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DOMAIN ANALYSIS (DA) IS THE FIRST STEP IN SOFTWARE REUSE AS IT PROPOSES A SYSTEMATIC, FORMAL AND EFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF SOFTWARE REUSE. UNFORTUNATELY, THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY IS AT ITS INFANCY STAGE IN DA AND KNOWLEDGE BASE IS NOT READILY AVAILABLE. OUR EXPERIENCE INDICATES HOWEVER, THAT ACQUIRING AND STRUCTURING THE KNOWLEDGE IS THE BOTTLENECK OF DA. DR. RUBEN PRIETO-DIAZ HAS PROPOSED A FORMAL D ...

New bellows seal technology to greatly improve seal integrity and life of rising stem and quarter-turn valves in electronic processing, petroleum and chemical processing industries. Bellows seals, considered zero-emission devices by the EPA, are urgently needed to meet current and future more stringent fugitive emissions requirements, but their sensitivity to static pressure and pressure fluctuati ...

A demonstration of Broadband Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) for PCS communications overlaid in the 800 MHz AMPS cellular band will be conducted. Broadband CDMA using direct sequence spread spectrum has significant military advantages of jamming immunity and low probability of intercept. It is also the most promising of the new concepts for high capacity commercial cellular radio because of ...

ANTROPIX CORPORATION PROPOSES TO OBTAIN TIME - RESOLVE OPTICAL PROPERTIES MEASUREMENTS (PLASMA OPACITY IN THE 8 - 12 MICRON SPECTRAL REGION, AS WELL AS STARK BROADENING AND RELATIVE INTENSITY PARAMETERS) ON BROADBAND PLASMA BARRIERS (BPBS) GENERATED BY LASER ACTIVATION OF ALKALI METAL (E.G., NA AND CS) VAPORS. SIMILAR MEASUREMENTS WILL BE COMPLETED ON KNOWN PHASE TRANSITION MATERIALS (PTMS) SUCH A ...