Abstract Not Forgotten by Sam Buttrey.

One of the challenging issues in the domain of C2 in complex and urban terrain is how to assist human combat staff to effectively collaborate and make decisions under multiple contexts, and to help people switch their attentions to the most urgent decision tasks. This paper describes a comprehensive approach that uses RPD-enabled agents to support timely decision-making under multiple contexts....

Reinforced concrete (RC) beams may require flexural strengthening due to the corrosion of reinforcing bars or changes in design load. The near surface mounted (NSM) and externally bonded (EB) techniques, using either glass carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP CFRP) composites, are used for deficient RC beams. However, strengthened with both techniques susceptible debonding failure FRP composit...

A disentanglement puzzle consists of mechanically interlinked pieces, and the puzzle is solved by disentangling one piece from another set of pieces. A string puzzle is a type of disentanglement puzzle, which consists of strings entangled with one or more wooden pieces. In this paper, we consider the generalized string puzzle problem whose input is the layout of strings and a wooden board with ...

Multi-context team decision making under time stress is an extremely challenging issue faced by various real world application domains. In this study we employ an experience-based cognitive agent architecture (R-CAST) to address the informational challenges associated with military command and control (C) decision making teams, the performance of which can be significantly affected by dynamic c...

In this paper we formally verify that the Uniform Candy Distribution Puzzle is self-stabilizing: Given a valid start configuration, eventually the Puzzle will evolve to a ‘stable’ situation in which it will remain. In terms of verification, the Uniform Candy Distribution Puzzle forms a scalable parametrized distributed system: The Puzzle comes in various sizes, for each size of the Puzzle there...

We introduce a new kind of percolation on finite graphs called jigsaw percolation. This model attempts to capture networks of people who innovate by merging ideas and who solve problems by piecing together solutions. Each person in a social network has a unique piece of a jigsaw puzzle. Acquainted people with compatible puzzle pieces merge their puzzle pieces. More generally, groups of people w...

Five types of ductile cast irons (DCIs) were fabricated by crystallizers with different inner diameters, as well five austempered (ADIs) after the same isothermal quenching process. The effects amount, diameter, and morphology graphite on mechanical properties DCI ADI effect original as-cast microstructure austempering studied. microstructures characterized optical microscopy, scanning electron...

We introduce a new kind of percolation on finite graphs called jigsaw percolation. This model attempts to capture networks of people who innovate by merging ideas and who solve problems by piecing together solutions. Each person in a social network has a unique piece of a jigsaw puzzle. Acquainted people with compatible puzzle pieces merge their puzzle pieces. More generally, groups of people w...

Data clustering methods have been proven to be a successful data mining technique in the analysis of gene expression data. The Cluster affinity search technique (CAST) developed by Ben-Dor, et. al., 1999, which has been shown to cluster gene expression data well, has two drawbacks. First, the algorithm uses a fixed initial threshold value to start the clustering. As stated in the original paper...