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Submissions from 2024
Graph Theory Metrics for the Prioritization of Water Distribution Network Assets: A Case Study of Tyndall AFB, FL, Ashton Acree, Adil Mounir, and Christopher M. Chini
Coarse-Gridded Simulation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Machine Learning, Benjamin F. Akers and Kristina O. F. Williams
Structure from Motion with Planar Homography Estimation: A Real-time Low-bandwidth, High-resolution Variant for Aerial Reconnaissance, Christian Arnold, Scott L. Nykl, Scott R. Graham, and Robert C. Leishman
Optofluidic Passive Parity-time-symmetric Systems, Franck Assogba Onanga and Hengky Chandrahalim
Epistemic Modeling Uncertainty of Rapid Neural Network Ensembles for Adaptive Learning, Atticus Beachy, Harok Bae, Jose A. Camberos, and Ramana V. Grandhi
Evaluating Installation Water Security Needs, Michael Berg, Daniel Weeks, and Christopher M. Chini
Exploring Quaternion Neural Network Loss Surfaces, Jeremiah Bill and Bruce A. Cox
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Remote Potable Water Supply for the Department of Defense, Caleb A. Boone and Christopher M. Chini
Monte Carlo Simulation of Spacecraft Breakup Events in Low Lunar Orbit, Nathan R. Boone and Robert A. Bettinger
Diagonals of self-adjoint operators II: non-compact operators, Marcian Bownik and John Jasper
Residual Stress Generation in Additive Manufacturing of Complex Lattice Geometries, Katie Bruggeman, Nathan Klingbeil, and Anthony N. Palazotto
Closed-loop Adaptive Optics in the Presence of Speckle and Weak Scintillation, Derek J. Burrell, Mark F. Spencer, and Ronald G. Driggers
Open-loop Wavefront Sensing in the Presence of Speckle and Weak Scintillation, Derek J. Burrell, Mark F. Spencer, and Ronald G. Driggers
A behavioral approach to repeated Bayesian security games, William N. Caballero, Jake Cooley, David Banks, and Phillip R. Jenkins
On large language models in national security applications, William N. Caballero and Philip R. Jenkins
Regulating the Rebound Effect in the Traveling Purchaser Problem, William N. Caballero, Brian J. Lunday, and Finn Meissner
High Elevation Radiation Array (HERA) Detectors for Airborne Thunderstorm Investigations, Jeffrey M. Chaffin, Juan J. Manfredi, Gregory S. Bowers, William J. Erwin, and James C. Petrosky
Simulating MQ-9 Aircrew Training to Determine Throughput, Identify Bottlenecks, and Optimize Manning Levels, Lance E. Champagne, Thomas P. Talafuse, and Erika E. Gilts
An Analysis of Precision: Occlusion and Perspective Geometry’s Role in 6D Pose Estimation, Jeffrey Choate, Derek Worth, Scott Nykl, Clark N. Taylor, Brett J. Borghetti, and Christine M. Schubert Kabban
Investigating Regional Communication Network Robustness of an Asymmetric String-of-Pearls Satellite Constellation Design Framework, Nathaniel M. Choo, Brian J. Lunday, Darryl K. Ahner, Nathan B. Gaw, Bryan D. Little, and Brian K. McBee
Production Box Cost Estimating Relationships for DoD Avionics, Carla J. Cisneros, Edward D. White, Brandon M. Lucas, Jonathan D. Ritschel, Robert D. Fass, and Shawn M. Valentine
Garbage In ≠ Garbage Out: Exploring GAN Resilience to Image Training Set Degradations, Nicholas Crino, Bruce A. Cox, and Nathan B. Gaw
Towards Systems that Dynamically Change and Evaluate Abstractions, Ada Diaconescu, David W. King, Kirstie Bellman, Christopher Landauer, and Phyllis Nelson
Mo-Re-W Alloys for High temperature Applications: Phase stability, elasticity, and thermal property insights via multi-cell Monte Carlo and machine learning, Tyler D. Dolezal, Nick A. Valverde, Jodie A. Yuwono, and Ryan A. Kemnitz
Analysis of a Distributed Command-and-Control Algorithm to Implement Mosaic Warfare, Stephen D. Donnel, Brian J. Lunday, and Nicholas T. Boardman