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Irregular warfare models for regional stability development 区域稳定发展的非正规战争模式

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829898

R. DeWoody, J. Hayes, Nick Isnardi, Joseph Kalinka, L. Teague

{"title":"Irregular warfare models for regional stability development","authors":"R. DeWoody, J. Hayes, Nick Isnardi, Joseph Kalinka, L. Teague","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829898","url":null,"abstract":"A war game can be defined as a realistic representation of inputs and outcomes in line with real world situations in a military environment. The Center for Army Analysis runs a war game simulation in order to gain insights and analyze counterinsurgency operations for higher level military commanders. The war gaming process is designed to develop a methodology that allows for the analysis of counterinsurgency operations at the operation/strategic levels. The adjudication table within the war game is used to predict outcomes based on troop levels, and is based solely on data from U.S. counterinsurgency missions in Iraq. With the withdrawal of forces from Iraq and now soon Afghanistan, it will be important to expand the scope of the adjudication table in order to improve the adaptability and accuracy of the war gaming process. An expanded adjudication table will allow the process to model counterinsurgency operations of the future that we have little knowledge of today. It can expedite decision making at the strategic level by modeling a wider expanse of solutions for an unfamiliar war zone. Outcomes can consist of a variety of possibilities to include number of insurgent attacks, total number of insurgents, and troop levels required to defeat the insurgency. In order to expand the scope of the adjudication table we have analyzed a number of counterinsurgency operations across a wide variety of countries and time periods. Incorporating additional conflicts into the adjudication table will allow for the adaptation of the war game to any potential number of conflicts in the future.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122315385","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

Intelligence surveillance reconnaissance “search window” 情报监视侦察“搜索窗口”

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829885

Jacob Bennett, Jordan Lee, Michael Sikorski, D. Taylor

{"title":"Intelligence surveillance reconnaissance “search window”","authors":"Jacob Bennett, Jordan Lee, Michael Sikorski, D. Taylor","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829885","url":null,"abstract":"This report was commissioned by Lockheed Martin Corporation in order to develop a predictive model capable of identifying potential enemy ballistic missile launch sites prior to launch. This model will use geospatial data in conjunction with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets in order to identify likely missile launch sites. The utilization of this model will save time when planning missions and engaging targets. This model will provide the commander with the ability destroy a launch site before it has a chance to fire a missile. Since enemy offensive missiles heavily outnumber the amount of American defensive missiles, this model uses an offensive approach in a field that has historically taken a defensive stance. Destroying enemy launch sites before they can fire ensures the most efficient use of missile assets. The prototype algorithm will be built using a commercial geospatial software tool, ArcGIS, and evaluating open-source data. The prototype will evaluate geographical data in order to focus assets on areas that are conducive to missile launch sites. This algorithm will then be exported to a tactical operating system capable of simulating missile engagements on a global scale and allowing commanders to make informed decisions regarding missile threats. The result of this project will have two parts. The first part will be a model in ArcGIS that will identify potential enemy launch sites based on geographic location and characteristics of the terrain. The second part of this project will be a graphical display that will output all relevant information to the commander. This information will include the coordinates of the possible launch sites, expected missile type, and range of each weapon system.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116188823","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

Non-kinetic operations for stabilizing government 稳定政府的非动能操作

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829899

C. D’Antonio, Stephanie Gower, Andrea Young, Edward Teague

引用次数: 2

Data integration for the Thomas Jefferson area community criminal justice system 托马斯·杰斐逊地区社区刑事司法系统的数据整合

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829924

Brittany Fuller, D. J. Gale, Stephanie A. Garbo, Jessica M. James, Andreea C. Linte, Michael C. Smith, K. P. White

{"title":"Data integration for the Thomas Jefferson area community criminal justice system","authors":"Brittany Fuller, D. J. Gale, Stephanie A. Garbo, Jessica M. James, Andreea C. Linte, Michael C. Smith, K. P. White","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829924","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this project is to facilitate program evaluation by creating a database that captures data about incidents, offenders, and offenses across the entire criminal justice system, while complying with national justice information sharing standards and maintaining individual stakeholders' legacy data systems. Current systems support individual functions and were not designed for cross-functional analysis. The Charlottesville and Albemarle criminal justice system needs the ability to store and analyze longitudinal data in order to identify appropriate and effective interventions, and support evidence-based decisions. The proposed solution is an integrated database with a SQL back end and a SharePoint front end. The pilot database, developed this year, contains select data fields from the police, the jail, and the city commonwealth attorney's data systems. The long-term goal of this project is the completion of an integrated database including all criminal justice stakeholders in the Thomas Jefferson Area Community Criminal Justice System. A data-sharing system available to all of these agencies will enable many questions to be answered with evidence-based reasoning. For example, some agencies would like to know the average time between arrest and sentencing for a specific crime and how different sentence lengths for similar crimes affect recidivism rates of offenders. Eventually, with all agencies in the criminal justice community included, the usefulness of such a datasharing system extends far beyond these examples. The National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) aims for the final system to be replicated in other jurisdictions nationwide.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133218611","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

Management of construction and demolition waste in the Region of Waterloo 滑铁卢地区建筑和拆除废物的管理

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829900

A. Button, Wonjong Lee, D. Marshall, Z. Dawood, Shawn MacLellan, H. Umali, S. Pagsuyoin

{"title":"Management of construction and demolition waste in the Region of Waterloo","authors":"A. Button, Wonjong Lee, D. Marshall, Z. Dawood, Shawn MacLellan, H. Umali, S. Pagsuyoin","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829900","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the existing construction waste management program in the Region of Waterloo to identify strategies for increasing waste diversion rates. The construction industry is a major economic driver in the Province of Ontario but it is also one of the largest contributors to landfill usage. The industry generates a large amount of solid waste, of which only a small fraction is recycled. The diversion rate for construction waste is currently at 16%, which is significantly below the 60% target specified in the 2004 Ontario Waste Diversion Goals. In this study, diversion options are identified for six waste streams: wood, concrete, steel, drywall, asphalt, and shingles. An economic evaluation of the cost of recycling these materials was also performed. Research findings indicate that there is poor monitoring of construction waste management in the region. Recycling costs can be minimized by increasing diversion rates for four waste streams (concrete, steel, drywall, and asphalt) rather than by imposing 60% diversion across all streams. However, even with optimized diversion, there is little incentive for the construction industry to recycle - the minimum cost of 60% diversion is 15% more costly than landfilling options. An assessment of the landfill disposal fee structure is recommended to identify strategies for incentivising waste diversion; for example, imposing higher landfill fees may encourage higher waste diversion rates.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"21 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962826","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

Forecasting mobile transmission reliability using crowd-sourced cellular coverage data 使用众包蜂窝覆盖数据预测移动传输可靠性

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829892

Michelle C. Martin, Anne M. Kwan, Eric J. Forte, Stan F. Zhang, S. Patek

{"title":"Forecasting mobile transmission reliability using crowd-sourced cellular coverage data","authors":"Michelle C. Martin, Anne M. Kwan, Eric J. Forte, Stan F. Zhang, S. Patek","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829892","url":null,"abstract":"As smartphones work their way into mission-critical applications, there is a need to gain knowledge of access network speeds and their variability at different locations. This information is vital to ensuring the efficient transmission of time-sensitive data and can mean the difference between life and death for some patients [1]. However, the decision to adopt smartphone applications (apps) that provide advanced communication services is complicated by the uncertainty of whether they will actually perform well in the field. Reliable operation in the field is hard to assess from laboratory demonstrations with reliable network coverage. Even if performance can be related to simple measures of network connectivity (e.g. the number of \"bars\"), objective 3rd-party assessments are difficult to obtain short of extensive field testing. This paper presents preliminary work toward an empirical model that predicts the number of bars in specific geographical locations using \"crowd-sourced\" signal strength data. Preliminary field test data was used to illustrate a Geographical Information System (GIS)-based end-to-end process by which signal strength (number of bars) in rural areas can be predicted from available signal strength measurements on major thorough fairs. Two linear models for predicting signal strength were developed using predictor variables that are easily assessed using standard GIS software. While the results presented here fail to achieve a high degree of statistical significance, the basic feasibility of the approach is established, and the factors that contribute to success or failure of the approach are discussed.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"258 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124231121","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: 5

NavEye: Smart guide for blind students NavEye:盲人学生的智能指南

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829872

Hamza A. AlAbri, Ahmed M. AlWesti, Mohammed A. AlMaawali, Ali A. AlShidhani

{"title":"NavEye: Smart guide for blind students","authors":"Hamza A. AlAbri, Ahmed M. AlWesti, Mohammed A. AlMaawali, Ali A. AlShidhani","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829872","url":null,"abstract":"Blind students all over the world need guidance to navigate around the city or university campus. It is estimated that 374,400 visually impaired students attended colleges at some point in the United States alone. With the rapid technological advancement, new opportunities are emerging to make life easier for blind students. Motivated by the problem, the objective of this project is to design, prototype and evaluate a smart guidance system to help blind students navigate from and to classrooms. To design such a system, the design team had to exercise several design steps typically involved in an engineering design process. The steps include literature research, requirements specification, solution brainstorming, system functional decomposition, functional modeling, prototype implementation and testing. The designed system consists of two fully integrated modules; a mobile application and a smart cane. The blind student interacts with the mobile application using voice commands. The blind student can instruct the mobile application to navigate him/her to a desired destination (eg. classroom). On the other hand, the cane helps the blind student to avoid obstacles and alerts him/her when walking off track. The cane and the mobile application are synchronized via Bluetooth technology. The system was modularly designed, tested and finally integrated together. Testing exhibited promising results and proved to be beneficial to such an important sector of the society.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125718517","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: 9

Alternative management of organic waste in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada 加拿大安大略省查塔姆-肯特郡有机废物的替代管理

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829905

A. Blair, Graeme Hollands, K. McIntosh, A. Macdonald, Bhumi Mehta, H. Umali, S. Pagsuyoin

{"title":"Alternative management of organic waste in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada","authors":"A. Blair, Graeme Hollands, K. McIntosh, A. Macdonald, Bhumi Mehta, H. Umali, S. Pagsuyoin","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829905","url":null,"abstract":"The municipal solid waste collected from Chatham-Kent is currently disposed to the Ridge Landfill in Blenheim, Ontario. Although the municipality implements recycling, the program does not include separate collection and processing of organic food waste. This paper presents an economic evaluation of composting alternatives for the organic food waste collected from households in Chatham-Kent. A cost-benefit analysis was performed for three scenarios: (i) continuing the current system of landfill disposal, (ii) backyard composting in detached dwellings, and (iii) centralized collection and off-site composting in London, Ontario. Results indicate that backyard composting is an economically feasible alternative to landfill disposal. The cost of backyard composting is comparable to landfill disposal (2% lower at a 25% participation rate and 8% lower at full uptake), suggesting that long-term benefits offset the initial investments on backyard composters. Centralized composting is twice more expensive than landfill disposal at all uptake rates. Despite the lower initial cost of the collection bins compared to backyard composters, the cost of waste collection and transport is significantly higher for centralized composting. In terms of waste diversion at full uptake, the centralized collection of source-separated organics results in a 6% increase in overall diversion rates compared to a 5% increase for backyard composting. Further, landfill life is extended by 16 years for the centralized composting and by 12 years for backyard composting. The analytical method employed in this study can be applied to other regions exploring similar decision options on composting. The decision criteria presented in this paper can be expanded and modified to accommodate regional variability such as access to facilities, materials costs, and social acceptability.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129413087","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

Low-cost thin-film deposition apparatus for solar applications 太阳能应用的低成本薄膜沉积装置

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829891

Melissa R. Dutter, Kyle Davis, R. Spelman, Joel Groetsema, K. Hutchison, S. Holland

{"title":"Low-cost thin-film deposition apparatus for solar applications","authors":"Melissa R. Dutter, Kyle Davis, R. Spelman, Joel Groetsema, K. Hutchison, S. Holland","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829891","url":null,"abstract":"Widespread adoption of solar energy technologies, such as solar photovoltaics (PV) and/or photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen fuel production cells, requires low-cost fabrication methods to produce large area devices for solar energy harvesting. Novel thin-film semiconductor materials produced from chemical solution deposition have significant potential to reduce production and manufacturing costs. Ongoing research at James Madison University is focused on the development and fabrication of thin-film semiconductor materials for PV and PEC applications. Thin-film semiconductors, such as BiVO4 and Cu2ZnSnS4, are fabricated by depositing a liquid precursor solution onto a heated substrate using ultrasonic spray pyrolysis, pneumatic spraying, or liquid drop casting. To enable thin-film depositions over larger sample areas, an automated deposition system is being developed. This coating system is comprised of two primary and interacting subsystems: motion and heating control. The motion system controls the path and travel speed of the precursor deposition device, such as the ultrasonic spray nozzle, during the deposition process. During the deposition procedure, the substrates rest on a heated surface, which provides the energy necessary to induce the desired chemical reactions on the substrate and remove unwanted compounds. This surface have a uniform spatial temperature distribution and must be controlled to a constant temperature ranging from 40 °C to 500 °C with a variability of ±4 °C. A specially designed heating plate was designed to meet these requirements. The focus of this work is to design an integrated system that allows a deposition area of 16 in2 to be completed at James Madison University.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115864901","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

Identification and mitigation of potential logistical issues in the relocation of the UVA Health System's Outpatient Surgery Center 识别和缓解UVA卫生系统门诊手术中心搬迁中潜在的后勤问题

2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS) Pub Date : 2014-04-25 DOI: 10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829884

K. Brock, L. Chitty, Michael Smith, B. Wagner

{"title":"Identification and mitigation of potential logistical issues in the relocation of the UVA Health System's Outpatient Surgery Center","authors":"K. Brock, L. Chitty, Michael Smith, B. Wagner","doi":"10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SIEDS.2014.6829884","url":null,"abstract":"The University of Virginia Health System's Outpatient Surgery Center (OPSC) will move from its current freestanding facility into the newly constructed Battle Building in the summer of 2014. The Battle Building will consolidate pediatric outpatient services and the OPSC. The OPSC's current facility is a one-floor building with eight operating rooms, while the new location will operate across two floors, with twelve operating rooms. Differences in the physical layout pose potential challenges in the flow of people, materials, and information. The goal of this project is to identify and mitigate potential critical issues in patient and family movements, staff activities and interactions, communications and information flows, and materials movement, and to identify alternatives for addressing these issues to ensure safe, efficient, and efficacious delivery of outpatient surgery services. We assessed current operations of the OPSC through observation and interaction with multiple stakeholders. We defined goals, objectives, and requirements of the OPSC, including maximizing quality, safety, and efficiency of care, through a patient-centered analysis. Next, we documented current and future process flows of a patient's visit to the OPSC, including family, staff, and information flows. We identified processes that will significantly differ in the Battle Building, where the planning committees should focus to ensure successful operation following the transition. These include communication methods between staff, patients and guests, and guided patient and guest transport. We present and evaluate alternatives for these decision points, paying attention to critical processes, which affect patient care and experience. The documentation of current and future process flows, identification of major logistical changes, and guidance in decision-making assists our clients in determining how to best transition their operations into the Battle Building.","PeriodicalId":441073,"journal":{"name":"2014 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117329594","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}

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