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Submissions from 2019
The Multi-pursuer Single-Evader Game: A Geometric Approach, Alexander Von Moll, David W. Casbeer, Eloy Garcia, Dejan Milutinovic, and Meir Pachter
Excitation of Higher Lying States in a Potassium Diode-pumped Alkali Laser, Austin J. Wallerstein, Glen P. Perram, and Christopher A. Rice
Agent Scheduling in Opinion Dynamics: A Taxonomy and Comparison Using Generalized Models, Christopher W. Weimer, John O. Miller, Raymond R. Hill, and Douglas D. Hodson
Fast and Effective Techniques for LWIR Radiative Transfer Modeling: A Dimension-Reduction Approach, Nicholas M. Westing [*], Brett J. Borghetti, and Kevin C. Gross
Teaching Safety, Health, and Environment in Engineering Programs for Millennials: Ethics is the Basis, Gary L. Winn, Jeremy Slagley, Madeline Slagley, and Laura Winn
Submissions from 2018
Finding the Fuel of the Arab Spring Fire: A Historical Data Analysis, Darryl K. Ahner and Luke M. Brantley
A Deterministic-stochastic Method for Computing the Boltzmann Collision Integral in O(MN) operations, Alexander Alekseenko, Truong Nguyen, and Aihua W. Wood
Wavelet ANOVA Bisection Method for Identifying Simulation Model Bias, Andrew D. Atkinson, Raymond R. Hill, Joseph J. Pignatiello Jr., G. Geoffrey Vining, Edward D. White, and Eric Chicken
Comparison of Plume Dynamics for Laser Ablated Metals: Al and Ti, William A. Bauer, Glen P. Perram, and Timothy Haugan
Improved Space Object Detection Using Short-Exposure Image Data with Daylight Background, David J. Becker and Stephen C. Cain
Multivariate Stochastic Approximation to Tune Neural Network Hyperparameters for Criticial Infrastructure Communication Device Identification, Trevor J. Bihl and Daniel W. Steeneck
Influence of Basis-set Size on the X2Σ+1/2, A2Π1/2, A2Π3/2, and B2Σ1/2 potential-energy curves, A2Π3/2 2 vibrational energies, and D1 and D2 line shapes of Rb+He, L. Aaron Blank, Amit R. Sharma, and David E. Weeks
A Framework for Investigating Optimization of Service Parts Performance with Big Data, Christopher A. Boone, Benjamin T. Hazen, Joseph B. Skipper, and Robert E. Overstreet
Estimation of Atmospheric Turbulence Using Differential Motion of Extended Features in Time-lapse Imagery, Santasri R. Bose-Pillai, Jack E. McCrae, Christopher A. Rice, Ryan A. Wood, Conner E. Murphy, and Steven T. Fiorino
Measuring Leak Rates from Abandoned Natural Gas Wells in Western Pennsylvania, John Bradshaw, Jeremy M. Slagley, Nicole Iannacchione, and Matthew Lees
Military-Related Exposures, Social Determinants of Health, and Dysbiosis: The United States-Veteran Microbiome Project (US-VMP), Lisa A. Brenner, Andrew J. Hoisington, Kelly A. Stearns-Yoder, Christopher E. Stamper, Jared A. Heinze, Teodor T. Postolache, Daniel A. Hadidi, Claire A. Hoffmire, and Maggie A. Stanislawski
Non-GNSS Smartphone Pedestrian Navigation Using Barometric Elevation and Digital Map-Matching, Daniel Broyles, Kyle J. Kauffman, John F. Raquet, and Piotr Smagowski
The Effectiveness of Using Diversity to Select Multiple Classifier Systems with Varying Classification Thresholds, Harris K. Butler IV, Mark A. Friend, Kenneth W. Bauer, and Trevor J. Bihl
The Target Differential Game with Two Defenders, David W. Casbeer, Eloy Garcia, and Meir Pachter
Reversing a Lattice ECP3 FPGA for Bitstream Protection, Daniel J. Celebucki, Scott R. Graham, and Sanjeev Gunawardena
Effects of Edge Inclination Angles on Whispering-gallery Modes in Printable Wedge Microdisk Lasers, Cong Chen, Lei Wan, and Hengky Chandrahalim
Cost Performance Index Stability: Insights from Environmental Remediation Projects, Denis S. Clayson, Edward D. White, and Alfred E. Thal Jr.
Range Information Characterization of the Hokuyo UST-20LX LIDAR Sensor, Matthew A. Cooper, John F. Raquet, and Rick Patton
Unmasking Cost Growth Behavior: A Longitudinal Study, Cory N. D'Amico, Edward D. White, Jonathan D. Ritschel, and Scott R. Kozlak
Case Study: Cooling Channels for Material Testing Applications Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion, Benjamin M. Doane, Ryan P. O'Hara, K. Liu, and Carl R. Hartsfield