{"title":"Sometimes Quality is Rocket Science: Columbia~s Lessons for Software Quality Professionals","authors":"T. Rivera, A. Tate, S. Will","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287932","url":null,"abstract":"Software quality professionals can learn lessons from many sources, some seemingly unrelated to software. NASA¿s painstaking approach to learning from their mistakes in the field of aerospace is a shining example of the quest to find errors with finding fault. Especially in the areas of quality inspections and testing, software professionals can learn from the Columbia tragedy and the NASA approach in general.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117085200","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}
{"title":"Diverse Experiences Involving Science, Engineering and Technology","authors":"S.M. Amr, F.S. Ballou","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287911","url":null,"abstract":"Oak Ridge National Laboratories was established in 1943 to carry out a single, well-defined mission of the pilot-scale production and separation of plutonium for the World War II Manhattan Project. The Laboratory has advanced into a unique resource for addressing important national and global energy and environmental issues. It initiates the development of new energy sources, technologies, and materials and the advancement of knowledge in the biological, chemical, computational, engineering, environmental, physical, and social sciences. A research opportunity at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory may result in providing more knowledge within the student than one full academic school year. As a junior or a senior student, it is always recommended to take the research and development route in the science, engineering and technology fields. The outcome of the coop or internship research program would be very influential to submit a project based abstract and present findings before a panel and carry out a discussion with professionals in the field. The project assignment may include detailed structured array platform, which would be designed to detect a signal using fabricated arrays of micro-devices. Aspects for projects would be designed usually to accommodate Homeland Security efforts as well as energy conservation, and process control.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114864854","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}
{"title":"Alternative Pair-wise Key Exchange Protocols for Robust Security Networks (IEEE 802.11i) in Wireless LANs","authors":"H. Altunbasak, Henry Owen","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287901","url":null,"abstract":"The security flaws of the current the IEEE 802.11 standard are well known and have widely been publicized. To provide improvements in security and enhance the current 802.11 MAC, the IEEE 802.11i task group has proposed a new security architecture called Robust Security Network (RSN). The proposed improvements in the new architecture focus on two areas; the IEEE 802.1X standard for access control and encryption using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). RSN uses a pairwise key exchange protocol utilizing 802.1X for mutual authentication. In this paper, we present two alternative pair-wise key exchange protocols to provide mutual authentication in Robust Security Networks. We utilize the same message structures used in RSN and reduce the number of handshake messages. These alternative protocols improve the timing requirements for mobility in WLANs, reduce channel contention, and decrease computational load on all users in WLANs. We also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of our proposed protocols in terms of complexity and vulnerabilities.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116890258","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}
{"title":"Virtual Laboratory for Electrical Circuit Course","authors":"H. Basher, S. Isa, M. Henini","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287939","url":null,"abstract":"A virtual laboratory for an introductory laboratory course in circuit analysis in Electrical Engineering Technology program is developed that can replace the traditional laboratory setup by an approach based on data acquisition (DAQ) instrumentation. The project utilizes LabVIEW software and DAQ board (Model PCI-6024E) both from National Instruments. The PCI-6024E is a multifunction I/O device having 8 digital I/O lines, 12 bit 16 single ended analog input lines, and two 12 bit analog output lines. The undergraduate laboratories have been poorly equipped due to the rising cost of laboratory instruments. This trend has created a strong market for laboratory instruments based on personal computers. LabVIEW provides a low-cost solution for laboratory instrumentation compared to its traditional counterpart since appropriate software, operating through a plug-in DAQ board, is readily available at a very low-cost. The LabVIEW can model standard laboratory instruments while offering more flexibility as it is software based. The combination of LabVIEW and available plug-in hardware enables the virtual instrument to be modified whenever needs change. This instrumentation system can be produced at a fraction of the cost of traditional instruments. Due to LabVIEW¿s graphical nature data can be easily presented in any forms such as charts, graphs, etc. The final product of this project will be used to teach the laboratory course in-class as well as via Internet so that students can take the course on the web which is the trend of education now.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126774195","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}
{"title":"Essential Elements of A Component-Based Development Environment","authors":"R. Pyne, E. Mugisa","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129400375","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}
{"title":"Failure Detection for Multiple Input Systems","authors":"J. Hereford, N. Galyen","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287916","url":null,"abstract":"The overall goal of this research is to develop a system that is resistant or tolerant of sensor failures. The plan is to incorporate multiple sensors in an electronic system and then take the average of the sensors as the system output. If a sensor fails, the failure is detected, and the processing hardware will be ¿re-programmed¿ based on evolvable hardware principles to take the average of the remaining input sensors. A key aspect of this program is how to detect when one out of N sensors fails. This paper describes the use of a one-dimensional (1-D) Kalman filter to detect a sensor failure by observing the average of N sensors together. The paper discusses the failure detection algorithm and then gives results for the algorithm based on computer simulations and then actual laboratory measurements.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133060381","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}
{"title":"MPLS Based Best Effort Traffic Engineering","authors":"Jerapong Rojanarowan, B. Koehler, Henry L. Owen","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287923","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) enables traffic engineering by introducing connection-oriented features of forwarding packets over arbitrary non-shortest paths. Our goal in this research is to improve the network utilization for best effort traffic in IP networks. By examining the best effort traffic class, we assume The large volume of research that has been conducted on traffic engineering for assured forwarding and expedited forwarding with admission control allows traffic engineering on those traffic classes. We examine a different and in some sense a \"more complex\" problem (traffic demands are not known a priori) of traffic engineering for the remaining network bandwidth which is utilized by best effort traffic. We present a generic traffic engineering framework and four specific algorithms. This framework has two prominent features 1) it uses MPLS to encapsulate source-destination aggregate flows within a Label Switched Path (LSP), with multiple LSPs per source-destination. 2) The framework is \"stateless\", only the topology is used to determine the traffic routing.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133506365","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}
{"title":"Numerical analysis of magnetostrictive effects in an electrical steel sample including experimental testing","authors":"O. Mohammed, S. Ganu, S. Liu","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287956","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates experimental testing as well as numerical results relating to inverse magnetostrictive effects in an electrical steel sample. The numerical analysis is based upon the 3d magnetoelastic formulation. The magnetic field causes elastic deformation and mechanical stress changes the magnetic properties. It is found that an increase in the mechanical stress causes the material to contain more flux density. This result has the promise of increased power density inside the electrical device on stressing the material. Also the numerical results enable us to determine the field variables at any point inside and outside the sample.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127853954","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}
{"title":"Estimated and Actual Performance Scores on Computer Programming Tasks","authors":"B. Pioro","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287950","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined estimated scores and actual scores on completed test problems obtained from the final exam questions in a computer programming course. The programming tasks involved ten multiple choice questions and three programming problems. The problems were designed within the framework of the skill-rule-knowledge model of human performance. Twenty five engineering and computer science students took the final exam. The analyses of data show significant differences in selfassessment of performance between the high-performing students and the low-performing students. The paper suggests that the student¿s ability to assess his or her own performance on the practice problems is strongly related to the actual performance on tests and exams. The paper also suggests that the tutoring programs for SMET courses should address the learning skills of individual students and, specifically, the students¿ self-assessment skills.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125947102","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}
{"title":"Combined GPS Reflected Signal and Visual Imagery for Unsupervised Clustering and Terrain Classification","authors":"M. Grant, S. Katzberg","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2004.1287945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2004.1287945","url":null,"abstract":"Use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) L-band (1.57542 GHz) surface-reflected signal for remote sensing is a relatively recent development. In the current study, GPS satellite reflected-signal surface reflectivity, computed along the spectral point ground track across an agricultural area, is combined with 1m x 1m orthorectified, grayscale imagery to form a 2-dimensional (2D) space where unsupervised data clustering and classification is performed. Unlike intensity-only (1D) clustering and classification of the visual data, the moisture-sensitive GPS reflected signal allows water features to be readily differentiated from heavy vegetation and cultivated fields. To our knowledge, this study is the first use of the reflected GPS signal in combination with visual imagery for remotely sensed terrain data clustering and classification.","PeriodicalId":324953,"journal":{"name":"IEEE SoutheastCon, 2004. Proceedings.","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115741025","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}