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A Distributed Interactive Simulation Based Remote Debriefing Tool For Red Flag Missions, Michael T. Gardner Dec 1993

A Distributed Interactive Simulation Based Remote Debriefing Tool For Red Flag Missions, Michael T. Gardner

Theses and Dissertations

Air Force leaders, recognizing the need for improved training following the Vietnam War, implemented the Red Flag exercises at Nellis AFB. At the heart of this training is the Red Flag Measurement and Debriefing System RFMDS and its capability to accurately reconstruct the elements of an intense exercise fought over the deserts of Nevada. This thesis uses the technology of distributed interactive simulation DIS to transmit aircraft telemetry onto computer networks, allowing the monitoring and analysis of live Red Flag missions at any site with compatible communications equipment and thesis software. The use of standard DIS protocols enables simulators to …


Objectsim - A Reusable Object Oriented Dis Visual Simulation, Mark I. Snyder Dec 1993

Objectsim - A Reusable Object Oriented Dis Visual Simulation, Mark I. Snyder

Theses and Dissertations

This research designed and implemented a reusable Distributed Interactive Simulation DIS visual simulation architecture for Silicon Graphics platforms. The goal was to research software architecture technologies and to create a design and implementation using these ideas. The architecture was designed using object oriented techniques to provide the ability to customize it via inheritance extension. The resulting design was implemented using C and applied to several DIS visual simulation projects in the Graphics Lab at AFIT. The architecture, named ObjectSim, was successful in its goal of providing a reusable core for the DIS visual simulation projects in the Graphics Lab at …


A Method For Populating The Knowledge Base Of Afit's Domain-Oriented Application Composition System, Russell M. Warner Dec 1993

A Method For Populating The Knowledge Base Of Afit's Domain-Oriented Application Composition System, Russell M. Warner

Theses and Dissertations

This research developed a formal method for adding new domains to Architect, a domain-oriented application composition system being developed at the Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT to explore new software engineering technologies. Using canonical formal specifications of domain objects, Architect rapidly composes these specifications into a software application and executes a prototype of that application as a means to demonstrate its correctness before any programming language specific code is generated. Architect is implemented in the Software Refinery environment, which allows Architect to create and manipulate object-oriented specifications. As a part of this research effort, domain-oriented application composition systems were …


Discovery Learning In Autonomous Agents Using Genetic Algorithms, Edward O. Gordon Dec 1993

Discovery Learning In Autonomous Agents Using Genetic Algorithms, Edward O. Gordon

Theses and Dissertations

As the new Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) draft standard evolves into a useful document and distributed simulations begin to emerge that implement parts of the standard, there is renewed interest in available methods to effectively control autonomous aircraft agents in such a simulated environment. This investigation examines the use of a genetics-based classifier system for agent control. These are robust learning systems that use the adaptive search mechanisms of genetic algorithms to guide the learning system in forming new concepts (decision rules) about its environment. By allowing the rule base to evolve, it adapts agent behavior to environmental changes. Addressed …


Graphical Tools For Situational Awareness Assistance For Large Battle Spaces, Brian B. Soltz Dec 1993

Graphical Tools For Situational Awareness Assistance For Large Battle Spaces, Brian B. Soltz

Theses and Dissertations

As virtual environments grow in complexity and size, users are increasingly challenged in assessing situations in large-scale virtual environment. This occurs because of the difficulty in determining where to focus attention and assimilating and assessing the information as it floods in. One technique for providing this type of assistance is to provide the user with a first-person, immersive, synthetic environment observation post, that permits unobtrusive observation of the environment without interfering with the activity in the environment. However, for large, complex synthetic environments, this type of support is not sufficient because the portrayal of raw, unanalyzed data in the virtual …


Processing Of Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Signals For Target Detection, Kurt W. Knurr Dec 1993

Processing Of Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Signals For Target Detection, Kurt W. Knurr

Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated methods of targets detection using Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar (WASAR). WASAR uses multiple aspect angle Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images of the same scene. The SAR images were generated using a pre-release software package from package from Loral Corporation. The software was able to generate 512 by 512 pixel SAR images that contained various vegetation return which for our purposes we classified as clutter. Within this clutter, targets (M35 trucks) could be placed at random location and orientations. The software also had the capability of generating fully- polarimetic WASAR images with multiple depression angles. This data was …


Synthetic Battlebridge: Information Visualization And User Interface Design Applications In A Large Virtual Reality Environment, Kirk G. Wilson Dec 1993

Synthetic Battlebridge: Information Visualization And User Interface Design Applications In A Large Virtual Reality Environment, Kirk G. Wilson

Theses and Dissertations

With shrinking budgets and fewer personnel, future military training will rely heavily on simulated environments. The goal for this training is to reduce cost while maintaining readiness and unparalleled capability for all levels of military command. This thesis effort, the Synthetic Battle Bridge SBB , provides a real-time simulated environment for military commanders to observe on-going computer simulations of varying participation levels and helps them wring the most from a simulation. The SBB, designed for higher ranking personnel with little time to spend learning how to run the system, must exhibit three capabilities ease-of-use, long-term retention, and adaptability. Based on …


Multiple Model Adaptive Estimation Applied To The Lambda Urv For Failure Detection And Identification, David W. Lane Dec 1993

Multiple Model Adaptive Estimation Applied To The Lambda Urv For Failure Detection And Identification, David W. Lane

Theses and Dissertations

Multiple Model Adaptive Estimation (MMAE) is a method of estimating unknown system parameters by modeling all possible parameter configurations in several models. The parameters for this research are failure status conditions associated with flight control actuators and sensors on the LAMBDA Unmanned Research Vehicle, an experimental aircraft operated by Wright Laboratory Flight Controls Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Six actuator failures and eight sensor failures are modeled, along with the fully functional aircraft, in fifteen elemental Kalman filters. These filters propagate and update their own aircraft state estimates in real time. A probability computation representing the likelihood of …


Evaluation Of An Acoustic Charge Transport (Act) Device For Adaptive Interference Suppression In Spread Spectrum Communications Systems, Michael S. Mills Dec 1993

Evaluation Of An Acoustic Charge Transport (Act) Device For Adaptive Interference Suppression In Spread Spectrum Communications Systems, Michael S. Mills

Theses and Dissertations

Analytical results have shown that adaptive filtering can be a powerful tool for the rejection of narrowband interference in a direct sequence spread spectrum receiver. However, the complexity of adaptive filtering hardware has hindered the experimental validation of these results. This thesis describes a unique adaptive filter architecture for implementing the Widrow-Hoff Least- Mean-Square (LMS) algorithm using two state-of-the-art Acoustic Charge Transport (ACT) Programmable Transversal Filters (PTFs). Signal-to-noise ratio improvement measurements demonstrate the effectiveness of the adaptive filter for suppressing single- and dual-tone jammers at jammer-to-signal ratios (JSRs) of up to 30 dB. It is shown that the ACT adaptive …


Failure Detection, Isolation, And Recovery In An Integrated Navigation System, William B. Mosle Iii Dec 1993

Failure Detection, Isolation, And Recovery In An Integrated Navigation System, William B. Mosle Iii

Theses and Dissertations

An Inertial Navigation System (INS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a ground based transponder system (RRS) can all be used to provide the user with a navigation solution. Yet by integrating these three navigation systems with an extended Kalman filter (EKF), a navigation solution is attained that benefits from the information of all three subsystems. This research develops a multiple model EKF failure detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) algorithm using a Chi-Square failure test to provide robust navigation solution to measurement failures. The algorithm specifically counters failures in the GPS and RRS range measurements. Analysis is conducted using a …


The Afit Multielectrode Array For Neural Recording And Simulation: Design, Testing, And Encapsulation, James R. Reid Jr Dec 1993

The Afit Multielectrode Array For Neural Recording And Simulation: Design, Testing, And Encapsulation, James R. Reid Jr

Theses and Dissertations

A two-dimensional, X-Y addressable, multiplexed array of 256 electrodes (16 x 16) has been fabricated using conventional semiconductor processing techniques. The individual electrodes are 16O microns x 160 microns, approximating the size of the cortical columns; the overall array size is 3910 microns x 3910 microns. The array has been fitted to a chronically implantable package and tested for several days in a simulated neural environment. EEG-like data were collected successfully from individual electrodes in the array. This array improves on a previous design of a 16 electrode (4 x 4) array that was chronically implanted on the cortex of …


Development Of Computer Software To Aid Environmental Decision Makers In The Education And Training Of Air Force Remedial Project Managers, Roger R. Ouellette, Bruce K. Lyman Dec 1993

Development Of Computer Software To Aid Environmental Decision Makers In The Education And Training Of Air Force Remedial Project Managers, Roger R. Ouellette, Bruce K. Lyman

Theses and Dissertations

By the end of Fiscal Year 1991, the Air Force had identified 4,354 contaminated sites. Much like the 177 toxic sites at McClellan AFB, bases across the country and throughput the world are filled with chrome, lead, paint solvents and many other toxics that are rendering water supplies unusable and endangering the health of millions of people living in and around these bases. Air Force officials continue to identify contaminated sites with no end in sight. Since the cleanup of these toxic materials involves diverse, complex activities, the Air Force created the duty position of Remedial Project Manager to manage …


Filtering, Coding, And Compression With Malvar Wavelets, Stephen R. Hall Dec 1993

Filtering, Coding, And Compression With Malvar Wavelets, Stephen R. Hall

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis develops and evaluates a number of new concepts and tools for the analysis of signals using Malvar wavelets lapped orthogonal transforms . Windowing, often employed as a spectral estimation technique, can result in irreparable distortions in the transformed signal. By utilizing the Malvar wavelet, any signal distortion resulting from the transformation can be eliminated or cancelled during reconstruction. This is accomplished by placing conditions on the window and the basis function and then incorporating the window into the orthonormal representation. Paradigms for both a complex-valued and a real-valued Malvar wavelet are summarized. I-lie algorithms for the wavelets were …


Solving The Ranking And Selection Indifference-Zone Formulation For Normal Distributions Using Computer Software, Catherine A. Poston Dec 1993

Solving The Ranking And Selection Indifference-Zone Formulation For Normal Distributions Using Computer Software, Catherine A. Poston

Theses and Dissertations

Ranking and selection procedures are statistical methods used to compare and choose the best among a group of similar statistically distributed populations. The two predominant approaches to solving ranking and selection problems are Guptas subset selection formulation and Bechhofers indifference- zone formulation. For the indifference-zone formulation where the populations have equal sample sizes, Barr and Rizvi developed an integral expression of the probability of correct selection PCS. Given appropriate parameters, the integral expression can be solved to determine the common sample size required to attain a desired PCS. Tables with selected solutions to the integral expression are available for a …


Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 9, Number 10, December 1993, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University Dec 1993

Wright State University College Of Engineering And Computer Science Bits And Pcs Newsletter, Volume 9, Number 10, December 1993, College Of Engineering And Computer Science, Wright State University

BITs and PCs Newsletter

A ten page newsletter created by the Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science that addresses the current affairs of the college.


Parallel H-V Drawings Of Binary Trees, Panagiotis T. Metaxas, Grammati E. Pantziou, Antonis Symvonis Dec 1993

Parallel H-V Drawings Of Binary Trees, Panagiotis T. Metaxas, Grammati E. Pantziou, Antonis Symvonis

Computer Science Technical Reports

In this paper we present a method to obtain optimal h-v and inclusion drawings in parallel. Based on parallel tree contraction, our method computes optimal (with respect to a class of cost functions of the enclosing rectangle) drawings in $O(\log^2 n)$ parallel time by using a polynomial number of EREW processors. The number of processors reduces substantially when we study minimum area drawings. The method can be extended to compute optimal inclusion layouts in the case where each leaf $l$ of the tree is represented by rectangle $l_x \times l_y$ (the dimensions of which are part of the input). For …


Dynamic Decision Modeling In Medicine: A Critique Of Existing Formalisms, Tze-Yun Leong Dec 1993

Dynamic Decision Modeling In Medicine: A Critique Of Existing Formalisms, Tze-Yun Leong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Dynamic decision models are frameworks for modeling and solving decision problems that take into explicit account the effects of time. These formalisms are based on structural and semantical extensions of conventional decision models, e.g., decision trees and influence diagrams, with the mathematical definitions of finite-state semi-Markov processes. This paper identifies the common theoretical basis of existing dynamic decision modeling formalisms, and compares and contrasts their applicability and efficiency. It also argues that a subclass of such dynamic decision problems can be formulated and solved more effectively with non-graphical techniques. Some insights gained from this exercise on automating the dynamic decision …


Asynchronous Transaction Commitment In Federated Database Systems, San-Yih Hwang, Ee Peng Lim, Jaideep Srivastava Dec 1993

Asynchronous Transaction Commitment In Federated Database Systems, San-Yih Hwang, Ee Peng Lim, Jaideep Srivastava

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We propose a new (and restricted) model for global transactions which allows asynchronous commitment of subtransactions. Our model requires each global transaction to have a fixed structure with update to the data in at most one database. Based on this transaction model, we present two concurrency control algorithms, namely Asynchronous Site Graph and Asynchronous VirtGlobalSG, which employ asynchronous commitment and achieve global serializability. Compared to other proposed algorithms, our algorithms employ asynchronous commitment so as to increase transaction performance. Furthermore, our algorithms do not put restrictions on transaction data access or local histories.


Probing Tcp Implementations, Douglas E. Comer, John C. Lin Dec 1993

Probing Tcp Implementations, Douglas E. Comer, John C. Lin

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


An Optimal O(Log Log N) Time Parallel Algorithm For Detecting All Squares In A String, Albert Apostolico, Dany Breslauer Dec 1993

An Optimal O(Log Log N) Time Parallel Algorithm For Detecting All Squares In A String, Albert Apostolico, Dany Breslauer

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


C3: A Parallel Model For Coarse-Grained Machines, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Ashfaq A. Khokhar Dec 1993

C3: A Parallel Model For Coarse-Grained Machines, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Ashfaq A. Khokhar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Generalized Schwarz Splitting Method Based On Hermite Collocation For Elliptic Boundary Value Problems, Yu-Ling Lai, Apostolos Hadjidimos, Elias N. Houstis Dec 1993

A Generalized Schwarz Splitting Method Based On Hermite Collocation For Elliptic Boundary Value Problems, Yu-Ling Lai, Apostolos Hadjidimos, Elias N. Houstis

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Correctness Proof Of A Geometric Constraint Solver, Ioannis Fudos, Christoph M. Hoffmann Dec 1993

Correctness Proof Of A Geometric Constraint Solver, Ioannis Fudos, Christoph M. Hoffmann

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Combinatorial Optimization Problems For Which Almost Every Algorithm Is Asymptotically Optimal, Wojciech Szpankowski Dec 1993

Combinatorial Optimization Problems For Which Almost Every Algorithm Is Asymptotically Optimal, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Constructing Distributed Schedulers Using The Messiahs Interface Language, Steve J. Chapin, Eugene H. Spafford Dec 1993

Constructing Distributed Schedulers Using The Messiahs Interface Language, Steve J. Chapin, Eugene H. Spafford

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Parallel Numerical Methods For Partial Differential Equations (Ph.D. Thesis), Sang-Bae Kim Dec 1993

Parallel Numerical Methods For Partial Differential Equations (Ph.D. Thesis), Sang-Bae Kim

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Probabilistic Analysis Of A String Editing Problem And Its Variations, Guy Louchard, Wojciech Szpankowski Dec 1993

A Probabilistic Analysis Of A String Editing Problem And Its Variations, Guy Louchard, Wojciech Szpankowski

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Data Structures And Algorithms For The String Statistics Problem, Alberto Apostolico, Franco P. Preparata Dec 1993

Data Structures And Algorithms For The String Statistics Problem, Alberto Apostolico, Franco P. Preparata

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


A Scheduling Policy With Maximal Stability Region For Rings Networks With Spatial Reuse, Leonidas Georgiadis, Wojciech Szpankowski, Leondros Tassiulas Dec 1993

A Scheduling Policy With Maximal Stability Region For Rings Networks With Spatial Reuse, Leonidas Georgiadis, Wojciech Szpankowski, Leondros Tassiulas

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Parallel Dynamic Mesh Generation And Domain Decomposition, Poting Wu, Elias N. Houstis Dec 1993

Parallel Dynamic Mesh Generation And Domain Decomposition, Poting Wu, Elias N. Houstis

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.