In accordance wi th the procedures agreed upon by Code GP-4 and Code NST-44 , the at tached NASA-owned U . S . Patent is being forwarded tor abstracting and announcement in NASA STAR. The following in format ion is provided: U . S . Patent No. : 4, 389,504 . Issue Date : June 21. 1983 Government or Contractor Employee: NASA Case No. : U.S. Government LAR-12,775-1 NOTE If this patent covers an i...

The Department of Defense’s utility systems have suffered from under-funding and lack of technology investment, thereby creating a service gap between these DoD systems and systems operated by commercial providers. In order to overcome this gap and refurbish their systems, the DoD has focused its efforts on privatization of these systems. Although the Air Force has published source selection gu...

This paper presents a novel approach towards showing how contractor in agent-based simulation for complex warfare system such as multi-sensor battlefield reconnaissance system can be selected in Contract Net Protocol (CNP) with high efficiency. We first analyze agent and agent-based simulation framework, CNP and collaborators, and present agents interaction chain used to actualize CNP and estab...

a ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS), Contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA c Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), Inc., Contractor to the USGS EROS Center, Sioux Fall...

One of the critical financial planning issues for governmental and not for profit organizations is how to maximize their grant rev­ enues. An important part of that process is maximizing the reim­ bursement of their indirect costs from federal and state govern­ ment sources. The federal government permits organizations to obtain reim­ bursement from the government for implementing its programs ...

ASRC InuTeq, contractor to the US Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA; USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA; Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA; Department of Biological Sci...

The paper provides a multiple-experts Fuzzy-TOPSIS decision-making model for the selection among maintenance contractors based on quality of tendering documents. study introduces set criteria utilizing benefit and cost from literature. proposed aggregates subjective linguistic assessments multiple experts that express their opinions degree importance allows decisionmakers to evaluate compliance...

Interval Taylor has been proposed in the sixties by the interval analysis community for relaxing continuous non-convex constraint systems. However, it generally produces a non-convex relaxation of the solution set. A simple way to build a convex polyhedral relaxation is to select a corner of the studied domain/box as expansion point of the interval Taylor form, instead of the usual midpoint. Th...