Turkish defense industry and policy makers seek effective and successful system development programs by implementing a validation mechanism to verify the maturity of new technologies being developed in national laboratories and industry. Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) developed by NASA as a general metric of technology advancement and it has been widely accepted as a systems engineering and...

Due to the rapid expansion and heterogeneity of the data, it is a challenging task to discover the trends/paŠerns and relationships in the data, especially from a corpus of texts from published documents, news, and social media. In this paper, we introduce DycomDetector , a novel approach for topic modeling using community detections in dynamic networks. Our algorithm extracts the important ter...

Reproductive aging phenotypes, including age at menarche (AM) and age at natural menopause (ANM), are well-established risk factors for breast cancer. In recent years, many genetic variants have been identified in association with AM and ANM in genome-wide association studies among European populations. Using data from the Women's Circle of Health Study (WCHS) of 1,307 European-American (EA) an...

The goal of prognostics and health management (PHM) systems is to ensure system safety, and reduce downtime and maintenance costs. It is important that a PHM system is verified and validated before it can be successfully deployed. Prognostics algorithms are integral parts of PHM systems. This paper investigates a systematic process of verification of such prognostics algorithms. To this end, fi...

Financial data reflects the development situation and the operating results of an enterprise. The development of hi-tech enterprises has been gaining extensive attention, the use of financial data to evaluate its integrated ability is necessary. After the selection of financial indexes to elevate this integrated ability and through a questionnaire survey of 260 hi-tech enterprises in Beijing, f...

The life of a cell is governed by the physicochemical properties of a complex network of interacting macromolecules (primarily genes and proteins). Hence, a full scientific understanding of and rational engineering approach to cell physiology require accurate mathematical models of the spatial and temporal dynamics of these macromolecular assemblies, especially the networks involved in integrat...

At Georgia Tech, we investigated the eeectiveness of a visualization scheme for Information Retrieval systems. Displayed like a bar-graph, the visualization tool shows the distribution of query words in the set of documents retrieved in response to a query. We found that end-users use the visualization for two purposes: to gain speciic information about individual documents { such as the distri...