2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium最新文献

Identifying and managing infrastructure corridor access for economic development, safety, and land use decision making 识别和管理基础设施走廊通道，以促进经济发展、安全和土地使用决策

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215147

A. Watson, N. L. Hemminger, P. Rinehart, J. R. Fitzsimmons, R. J. MacKenzie, Z. C. George, S. Thekdi, Junrui Xu, J. Lambert

{"title":"Identifying and managing infrastructure corridor access for economic development, safety, and land use decision making","authors":"A. Watson, N. L. Hemminger, P. Rinehart, J. R. Fitzsimmons, R. J. MacKenzie, Z. C. George, S. Thekdi, Junrui Xu, J. Lambert","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215147","url":null,"abstract":"The performance, cost effectiveness, and safety of trillions of dollars of transportation corridors are both enhanced and threatened by adjacent land uses. These corridors are critical to manufacturing, communications, energy, and the movement of people and goods. State transportation agencies, including the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) are responsible for mobility and access on thousands of miles of multimodal corridors. This paper demonstrates methods to automate the collection of access data and prioritize vulnerable sections of the corridors, using sections of the Virginia Statewide Mobility System. The corridor trace analysis methodology described in this paper compares the placement and density of access points to safety metrics, road size, location of traffic management features, and area demographics for hypothesis testing and correlation studies. The results of this study can be used to prioritize the allocation of funding by VDOT, as well as other agencies and regions to minimize risk of land use. The methods can be applied at multiple geographic scales and planning horizons.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116539959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Design and analysis of a sustainable oyster aquaculture business for the West and Rhode Rivers 西部和罗德河州可持续牡蛎养殖业务的设计和分析

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215123

A. Crockett, A. Delsouz, J. DeGregorio, A. Muhealden, D. Streicher

{"title":"Design and analysis of a sustainable oyster aquaculture business for the West and Rhode Rivers","authors":"A. Crockett, A. Delsouz, J. DeGregorio, A. Muhealden, D. Streicher","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215123","url":null,"abstract":"The water quality in the West and Rhode Rivers (WRR), two mezohaline sub-estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay, has declined due to local runoff of excess nutrients and total suspended solids (TSS) entering from the Chesapeake Bay. Previous research identified the feasibility of using large colonies of bi-valves (e.g. oysters or clams) in the river to remove the excess nutrients. Based on this research, an experiment conducted by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center failed to establish a colony of clams due to naturally arising variability in salinity levels. Unlike clams, oysters are resilient to variations in naturally occurring environmental conditions, however, due to a lack of frequent reproduction by the oysters they are unable to build and sustain a viable oyster colony with critical mass. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the feasibility of a self-sustaining oyster colony, by harvesting a portion of the colony to fund the purchase of additional oyster. Design alternatives were evaluated for growing the colony((i) Remote Setting aquaculture, (ii) Nursery aquaculture, and (iii) Spat-on-shell aquaculture), and for distribution of the oyster product (shucked, half-shell). Three models were used to evaluate these design alternatives; (1) an oyster growth model to simulate the growth rate and survivability of oysters using stochastic environmental variables, (2) a 2D Tidal Mixing Model (2DTMM) to simulate the dynamic flow of nutrients and sediment within the WRR, and (3) a financial model to simulate the sustainability of an oyster aquaculture business with deterministic prices and demand. An analysis of cost versus utility (sustainability, public approval) shows that a 10 million remote setting aquaculture system sold at half shell would be the most cost-effective and sustainable alternative.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124613558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Incorporating cultural factors in a decision making model for the planning of U.S. military operations 将文化因素纳入美国军事行动规划的决策模型

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215140

R. Hamel, M. Schafer, R. Lee, R. Stewart, M. Gippetti, H. Touati, A. Adamshick

{"title":"Incorporating cultural factors in a decision making model for the planning of U.S. military operations","authors":"R. Hamel, M. Schafer, R. Lee, R. Stewart, M. Gippetti, H. Touati, A. Adamshick","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215140","url":null,"abstract":"U.S. military decision making and operational planning often does not account for cultural factors. A review of past military operations shows that in many cases failure to account for a region's cultural factors resulted in failure to achieve success in strategic mission objectives. Further analysis showed a significant increase in success rates for operations that accounted for cultural factors. This work aims to improve U.S. military decision making and operational planning by automating the collection of cultural data into a Cultural Factor Identification Tool (CFIT). The cultural data in CFIT is focused primarily at the country level and is gathered through open-source methods. These methods include collecting articles related to different countries and incidents and then parsing them to find frequencies of keywords. This frequency counts provide the input data for three different predictive approaches for generating factor specific, culture metrics. When converted into these metrics, cultural factors can be integrated within more sophisticated predictive models. Whether used within a larger model or on its own, the CFIT has the potential to significantly improve the quality of military decision making.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129446116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A more cost-effective unattended ground sensor using commercial off-the-shelf products 使用商用现成产品的更具成本效益的无人值守地面传感器

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215148

K. Hempenius, R. Wilson, M. J. Kumar, N. Hosseini, M. Cordovez, M. Sherriff

{"title":"A more cost-effective unattended ground sensor using commercial off-the-shelf products","authors":"K. Hempenius, R. Wilson, M. J. Kumar, N. Hosseini, M. Cordovez, M. Sherriff","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215148","url":null,"abstract":"The military is increasingly using sensors as part of its battlefield strategy. Sensors can be used as an alternative to placing soldiers in dangerous situations and the information that sensors collect helps leaders make better decisions. However, the cost of integrating these sensors into existing tactical networks has been a limiting factor in their adoption. Thus, the research team sought to use Android smartphones and Arduino microcontrollers, two commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, to create an inexpensive, \"plug-and-play\" interface to help relieve this issue. This interface was then demonstrated through the creation of a series of unattended ground vehicles (UGVs) that can be networked together in an ad-hoc wireless mesh network to collect sensor data from across an operational area. This project was broken down into two phases and the Agile development methodology was used throughout. During the first phase an interface between the Android phone and Arduino microcontroller was created and then integrated with sensors. During the second phase a robotics platform, path setting algorithm, and the ad-hoc wireless mesh network were developed. Collectively, this project demonstrated the feasibility of using open-source, commercially available parts to create unattended ground sensor (UGS) networks, thereby providing an alternative to current market offerings which are custom and proprietary in nature and therefore expensive and difficult to upgrade.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127948719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Enterprise modeling for the Analysis of Alternatives process in proposal generation 提案生成过程中备选方案分析的企业建模

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215138

G. Lewis, S. E. Beleidy, J. Kovács, Pooyan Jamshidi

{"title":"Enterprise modeling for the Analysis of Alternatives process in proposal generation","authors":"G. Lewis, S. E. Beleidy, J. Kovács, Pooyan Jamshidi","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215138","url":null,"abstract":"The Proposal Development Process (PDP) is a highly competitive process critical to generating revenue for government contractors. The Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) process, a sub-process of the PDP, is conducted to develop complex IT solutions covering a wide range of technologies to meet requirements in a Request for Proposals (RFP) from government agencies. To meet enterprise cost and productivity goals to maintain competitive advantage in the market place, there is a need to decrease the mean time required for AoA by 33% and its variability by 25% while maintaining or increasing AoA quality. A detailed analysis of the AoA process divides the 24 tasks within AoA into four categories: labor intensive, decision making, experience recall, and networking. Based on the analysis of task categories, improvements to the process are identified: implementing an improved file management system (e.g. Intravation Inc.), a content management system (e.g. EMC Inc), and maintaining a sanitized content repository. An added value alternative is also considered in optimizing staffing levels for the AoA process. The effect of implementing combinations of alternatives were modeled using a Monte Carlo discrete-event simulation model, which simulates the mean time required and the time variability for each AoA task as well as the quality of AoA output. An analysis of the cost versus utility shows that the combination of adjusting staffing levels and maintaining a sanitized content repository holds the highest value among the alternative configurations that meet the stakeholders' needs, having a mean duration reduction of 43.91%, a duration variability reduction of 37.50%, and a AoA output quality improvement of 10.21%, at a 5-year cost of $992,000.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122135779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A physical workstation, body tracking interface, and immersive virtual environment for rehabilitating phantom limb pain 一个物理工作站，身体跟踪界面，沉浸式虚拟环境，用于修复幻肢痛

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215131

A. R. Zweighaft, G. L. Slotness, A. Henderson, L. Osborne, S. Lightbody, L. M. Perhala, P. Brown, N. H. Haynes, S. M. Kern, P. Usgaonkar, M. Meese, S. Pierce, G. J. Gerling

{"title":"A physical workstation, body tracking interface, and immersive virtual environment for rehabilitating phantom limb pain","authors":"A. R. Zweighaft, G. L. Slotness, A. Henderson, L. Osborne, S. Lightbody, L. M. Perhala, P. Brown, N. H. Haynes, S. M. Kern, P. Usgaonkar, M. Meese, S. Pierce, G. J. Gerling","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215131","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual agency, the perceived intentional initiation of movement by an amputee of his or her phantom limb, can help reduce pain associated with the missing limb. One key aspect of enhancing virtual agency may lie in recreating a realistic residual limb in an immersive virtual environment. The apparatus described herein seeks to track an amputee's residual forearm and virtually render its restored movement. Specifically, magnetic position sensors and surface electromyography signals are used to track the absolute position of the residual forearm and the intentional grasp from the residual muscles. This information is inputted to software that creates the visual rendering. In the X3D virtual environment, the amputee user interacts with balls in a task that involves picking up one of six colored balls and dropping it into a bin. The image is produced by reflecting projected light off of a mirror and onto a tabletop where the user views the virtual environment. Use case studies indicate that this device can successfully detect when a user attempts to grasp his or her hand and provides visual feedback collocating the virtual limb with the missing limb. Thus, this device gives the user a sense of proprioceptive control of his or her phantom limb, enhancing virtual agency, and increasing the likelihood pain relief.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121478385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 10

Development of an immersive training vest 一种沉浸式训练背心的开发

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215154

A. Bodenhamer, C. Dagli, S. Corns, I. Guardiola

{"title":"Development of an immersive training vest","authors":"A. Bodenhamer, C. Dagli, S. Corns, I. Guardiola","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215154","url":null,"abstract":"Teams of students across four semesters have serially designed subsystems to be integrated into a cohesive immersive training vest system for military applications. The vest enhances the ability to provide realistic and real-time feedback on both battlefield effects (e.g. weapons fire) as well as performance information (e.g. correct/incorrect cultural response). The integrated system provides improved capabilities for real time training performance feedback though the following technology development efforts: robust zigbee wireless mesh networking, composite plate-mounted tactor motors for haptic feedback, hand/arm gesture tracking, and indoor location tracking. These technologies have been developed and tested as subsystems and are being integrated into a mock training facility at Missouri S&T for up to 15 individual trainees. The system development has been undertaken by an interdisciplinary student and faculty team relying on expertise in Systems Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The system was primarily developed as an applied exercise for a series of two introductory graduate-level courses for Systems Engineering. Thus students followed a comprehensive design process; from requirements derivation, functional analysis, guided trade studies, interface control, etc. towards a final detailed design. The students were personally mentored by faculty and PhD students, as well as industry mentors from the Boeing Company through a structured three phase design review process. Students applied analytical tools for system optimization and simulation to derive design parameters and estimate system performance against technical requirement thresholds. Currently, the subsystems have been prototyped and tested to meet functional requirements and the full integrated system is expected to be completed by May 2012 and will begin design validation at that time.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122856322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Avatar design and monitoring in a virtual disaster for all-hazards preparedness and infrastructure management in Brazil 巴西虚拟灾难中所有灾害准备和基础设施管理的化身设计和监测

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215153

T. K. Del Rosario, M. Kampmann, J. McGrath, E. Connelly, J. O. Gomes, J. Lambert

{"title":"Avatar design and monitoring in a virtual disaster for all-hazards preparedness and infrastructure management in Brazil","authors":"T. K. Del Rosario, M. Kampmann, J. McGrath, E. Connelly, J. O. Gomes, J. Lambert","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215153","url":null,"abstract":"Government agencies, industry consortia, and companies are interested in scenario analysis to improve preparedness plans across infrastructures, technologies, policies, and allocation of resources. This paper develops a concept for a virtual reality tool for disaster and infrastructure management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The tool will assist in identifying the future scenarios that most matter to agency preparedness. The tool explores scenarios in the virtual environment for several types of hazards including radiological emergency, urban flooding, power grid blackout, and terrorism at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The approach tests agency influences on population behaviors and vice versa. Most past efforts have focused on decision analysis and resource allocation for preparedness. The proposed effort inverts the typical decision analysis in order to identify the scenarios of disaster that most influence agency priorities for preparedness. The results inform first-responders in the region, and contribute to the use of virtual reality in interdisciplinary work to identify the scenarios that most matter for preparedness planning.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"232 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132074795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Estimation of influent concentrations of estrogens and select prescription drugs in wastewater treatment plants 废水处理厂中雌激素浓度的估计及处方药物的选择

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215135

H. Umali, S. Pagsuyoin, W. Parker

引用次数: 4

Design of a carbon neutral airport 碳中和机场的设计

2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium Pub Date : 2012-04-27 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215125

J. Hannah, D. Hettmann, N. Rashid, C. Saleh, C. Yilmaz

{"title":"Design of a carbon neutral airport","authors":"J. Hannah, D. Hettmann, N. Rashid, C. Saleh, C. Yilmaz","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2012.6215125","url":null,"abstract":"Historic data shows an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at airports caused by an increase in aircraft flights, associated ground support equipment, flight operations, and passenger movements. Despite rising concerns over the potential effects of anthropogenic activities on earth's climate, there is no singular ownership of the problem and therefore no commitment to fund change. There exists a need for a system to ensure compliance and accountability to enable preparation for future legislation for emission regulations at airports through reduction of CO2 for all components of flight operations. The purpose of this project is to provide the airport manager at major airports, such as Dulles International Airport, a tradeoff analysis for strategies to achieve carbon neutral growth at airports by 2020 with a 2005 baseline and net reductions of all aviation emissions by 2050. A decision support tool, the Airport Inventory Tool (AIT), was developed to create an emissions inventory to model airport operations from 2005 and create projections to 2050 using a 2% and 4% growth rate for airport operations to evaluate mitigation strategies. Ground support equipment and aircraft were the two largest sources of emissions. The combination of all design alternatives provides reduction of CO2 emission levels such that the CO2 emissions for 2050 meet the goal of carbon neutral for a 2% growth rate but do not achieve carbon neutrality with a 4% growth rate.","PeriodicalId":249301,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117143597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1