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Nelson, MLMaa, MHMichael L. Nelson is the “webmaster” for NASA Langley Research Center
Computer Systems Branch Mail Stop 157A 15 Langley Boulevard Hampton VA 23681‐0001 USA. Tel: 804 8648511 Fax: 804 8648342E‐mail: <m.l.nelson@larc.nasa.gov> . He has also worked with others to implement report servers
software servers technology transfer databases and other World Wide Web services and is also the technical lead for NASA Langley Research Center’s workstation clustering activities. Ming‐Hokng Maa is a NASA Langley Research Center Cooperative Education Student e‐mail: <m.h.maa@larc.nasa.gov> pursuing his BS in computer engineering/computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously held research positions at nView Corp. and the Inter‐National Research Institute Inc Ming‐Hokng Maa is a NASA Langley Research Center Cooperative Education Student
e‐mail: <m.h.maa@larc.nasa.gov> pursuing his BS in computer engineering/computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has previously held research positions at nView Corp. and the Inter‐National Research Institute Inc
Explains how the NASA Technical Report Server, a World Wide Web report distribution NASA technical publications service, has been modified for performance enhancement, greater protocol support and human interface opti...
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Explains how the NASA Technical Report Server, a World Wide Web report distribution NASA technical publications service, has been modified for performance enhancement, greater protocol support and human interface optimization. Results include: parallel database queries, significantly decreasing user access times by an average factor of 2.3;access from clients behind firewalls and/or proxies which truncate excessively long Uniform Resource Locators;access to non-Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) databases and compatibility with the Z39-50.3 protocol;and a streamlined user interface.
One of the enduring issues being evaluated during the SPICE trials is the reliability of assessments. One type of reliability is the extent to which different assessors produce similar ratings when assessing the same ...
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The SPICE project aims to deliver an international standard on software process assessment. Unique among softwareengineering standards efforts, there is an empirical trials activity as part of the SPICE project. The ...
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The SPICE project aims to deliver an international standard on software process assessment. Unique among softwareengineering standards efforts, there is an empirical trials activity as part of the SPICE project. The first phase of these trials was completed in calendar year 1995. During phase 1 data was collected to evaluate design decisions of the SPICE framework and the usability of the core SPICE documents. Part of this data was collected using questionnaires. The respondents were both assessors and assessees. In this paper we present an analysis of the responses to these questionnaires based on 35 assessments conducted during phase 1 of the SPICE trials. The results indicate that the SPICE framework is in general sound, but they also highlight some potential weaknesses. Recommendations to the SPICE project based on these results are presented.
This paper is a case study of how problem resolution can operate in the life cycle maintenance stage of a large tactical sonar system. Here, the system design agent is not the original designer, so the principles of o...
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This paper is a case study of how problem resolution can operate in the life cycle maintenance stage of a large tactical sonar system. Here, the system design agent is not the original designer, so the principles of operation, hardware and software architecture, and test tools need to be learned. To deal with this challenge, the system design agent evolved a team approach that integrates the talents of a program manager, a system engineer, a test engineer, and a software engineer to analyze fleet problems. This team has proven effective at localizing problems for repair. Lessons are drawn to further improve maintenance efficiency.
We have recently introduced Opus, a set of Fortran language extensions that provide shared data abstractions (SDAs) as a mechanism for communication and synchronization among coarse-grain data parallel tasks. In this ...
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We have recently introduced Opus, a set of Fortran language extensions that provide shared data abstractions (SDAs) as a mechanism for communication and synchronization among coarse-grain data parallel tasks. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation issues of the runtime system necessary to support SDAs, and outline the underlying requirements for such a runtime system. We explore the feasibility of this approach by implementing a prototype of the runtime system. We give preliminary results of the prototype on the Intel Paragon, outline the current status of the project, and discuss future plans.< >
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DRAKE, PRJENNINGS, ADGROSVENOR, RIWHITTLETON, DSystems Engineering Division
School of Engineering University of Wales College of Cardiff (UWCC) PO Box 917 Newport Road Cardiff CF2 1XH U.K. Paul Drake:has a B.Sc. in Statistics
an M.Sc. in Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Fault Diagnosis from the University of Wales. He gained several years experience of developing information systems while working in industry. At present he is a lecturer in Systems Engineering at the Cardiff School of Engineering within the University of Wales College of Cardiff. He is an active researcher in the field of machine condition monitoring and fault diagnosis in collaboration with industrial partners. He is also involved in the application of artificial intelligence techniques within manufacturing. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. July 1994 saw the publication of a book entitledCondition Based Maintenance and Machine Diagnosticsof which he was a co-author. Alun Jennings:has a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Portsmouth Polytechnic and an M.Sc. from Manchester University. He is a chartered mechanical engineer
with experience in fault diagnosis and product development. Currently he is employed as a research associate at UWCC on the MIRAM project. Roger Grosvenor:is an IT lecturer is Systems Engineering at the Cardiff School of Engineering within the University of Wales College of Cardiff. His teaching covers reliability engineering
instrumentation and measurement and digital control. His main research interests are in-process measurement on machine tools and condition monitoring of machine tools. Prior to his ten years at UWCC he was a development engineer in the heating and ventilation industry. He holds a B. Eng. in mechanical engineering and an M. Eng. both from the University of Wales and is a member of the Institute of Measurement and Control. He is currently a principal investigator on two European research grants in the field of condition monitoring and maintenance of machine tools. David Whittleton:is a pract
A flexible, generically applicable and inexpensive data acquisition system (DAS), for machine tool condition monitoring, has been designed, constructed and installed as part of a European Union sponsored project. The ...
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A flexible, generically applicable and inexpensive data acquisition system (DAS), for machine tool condition monitoring, has been designed, constructed and installed as part of a European Union sponsored project. The DAS is more than just a data logger and an array of sensors. It also consists of a methodology for analysing data logging requirements and a relational database that supports this methodology. The database is held on a central 'maintenance management' computer. The monitoring to be carried out by the DAS is specified through this database, which contains detailed information about the DAS's facilities. This feature makes it simple to reconfigure the DAS to implement new monitoring requirements and to customize its operation to meet the the needs of different machines. The information in the database is transformed into a look-up table that is read by the software that sets up and controls the data logging processes.
In this article a multimedia computer-assisted learning (MCAL) system is presented. The major objective of this work was to investigate the potential of using such systems as tools for transferring instructional cours...
In this article a multimedia computer-assisted learning (MCAL) system is presented. The major objective of this work was to investigate the potential of using such systems as tools for transferring instructional course information through various types of computer media as opposed to the classic CAL systems. The philosophy and techniques employed to design the system are investigated. Usage of the implemented system and its merits have been illustrated through its application to teach engineering students and technicians the theory and concepts of marine radar. System design, implementation, test, and revision phases are presented and discussed.
This paper describes the implementation of transmission-line matrix (TLM) method algorithms on a massively parallel computer (DECmpp 12000), the technique of distributed computing in the UNIX environment, and the comb...
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This paper describes the implementation of transmission-line matrix (TLM) method algorithms on a massively parallel computer (DECmpp 12000), the technique of distributed computing in the UNIX environment, and the combination of TLM analysis with Prony's method as well as with autoregressive moving average (ARMA) digital signal processing for electromagnetic field modelling. By combining these advanced computation techniques, typical electromagnetic field modelling of microwave structures by TLM analysis can be accelerated by a few orders of magnitude.
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