L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
We report on two ongoing efforts to build Dynamic Data
Hioe, CE, Visciano, M, Kumar, R, Liu, J, Tuen, M
No abstract available.
P02-06. The adjuvancy of OX40 ligand (CD252) on an HIV-1 canarypox vaccine (2009)
Liu, J, Ngai, N, Stone, GW, Yue, F, Ostrowski, MA
No abstract available.
Crystal-orientation dependant spin dephasing for 2D and bulk electrons in GaAs wires (2009)
Denega, S. Z., Last, T., Liu, J., Slachter, A., Rizo, P. J., ...
We report the observation of spin dephasing anisotropy for quasi-1D electron ensembles in wires etched into a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction system. Time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements show...
Application of a Maturity-accelerating Reagent (MAR) to Food Wastes Composting Processes (2009)
Li, Y.; Energy And Environmental Research Center, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China; Liyuxx@jlu.edu.cn, Liu, J.; Energy And Environmental Research Center, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China, Huang, G.; Environmental Systems Engineering Program, Faculty Of Engineering, University Of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada, Yu, H.; Environmental Systems Engineering Program, Faculty Of Engineering, University Of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada, An, K.; Energy And Environmental Research Center, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China, Zhang, B.; Environmental Systems Engineering Program, Faculty Of Engineering, University Of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada
In order to increase the degradation rate of organic materials and reduce ammonia emissions simultaneously during the aerobic composting period, a commercial maturity-accelerating reagent (MAR) was...
EUSFLAT- LFA 2005 Cost Estimations for Large Scale Engineering Projects under Uncertainties (2009)
D. Ruan, D. Maes, H. Aït, J. Liu, Bt Qb, Northern Irel, ...
Cost estimation for large projects can be difficult because of many complex factors and uncertainties involved. It is often the case that only very rough guesses of actual costs may be provided. In...
Berry Phase of Nonlinear Correction (2009)
We investigate the geometric phase or Berry phase of adiabatic quantum evolution in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) systems governed by nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii(GP) equations. We study how this...
Foreman, J. V., Everitt, H. O., Yang, J., McNicholas, T., Liu, J.
Ultrafast time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy following one- and two-photon excitation of ZnO powder is used to gain unprecedented insight into the surprisingly high external quantum...
Parquet approximation for the 4x4 Hubbard cluster (2009)
Yang, S. X., Fotso, H., Liu, J., Maier, T. A., Tomko, K., D'Azevedo, E. F., ...
We present a numerical solution of the parquet approximation (PA), a conserving diagrammatic approach which is self-consistent at both the single-particle and the two-particle levels. The fully...
J. Liu, B. Gurrier, C. Denard, A Sensitivity, I. Daubechies, ...
decomposition for regularized solution of inverse heart conduction problems by
Measurement of D* mesons in jets from p plus p collisions at root s=200 GeV (2009)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
Electrical discharge machining of ZrO2 toughened WC composites (2009)
Perez, Y., De Baets, P., Liu, J., ...
Izmaylov, A., Aoki, S., Blocki, J., Brinson, J., Dabrowska, A., Danko, I., ...
The T2K neutrino experiment at J-PARC uses a set of near detectors to measure the properties of an unoscillated neutrino beam and neutrino interaction cross-sections. One of the sub-detectors of the...
Ruan, L., Lin, G., Xu, Z., Asselta, K., Chen, H. F., Christie, W., ...
We propose a large-area, cost-effective Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) for the Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR) at mid-rapidity and for the next generation of detectors at a possible electron-ion...
Data submission and curation for caArray, a standard based microarray data repository system (2009)
X Bian, J Klemm, A Basu, J Hadfield, R Srinivasa, T Parnell, ...
caArray is an open-source, open development, web and programmatically accessible array data management system developed at National Cancer Institute. It was developed to support the exchange of array...
Second-harmonic generation from complementary split-ring resonators (2009)
Feth, N., Linden, S., Klein, M.W., Decker, M., Niesler, F.B.P., Zeng, Y., ...
Observation of Two-Source Interference in the Photoproduction Reaction AuAu -> AuAu rho(0) (2009)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
Multi-wire proportional chamber for ultra-cold neutron detection (2009)
Morris, C. L., Bowles, T. J., Gonzales, J., Hill, R., Hogan, G., Makela, M., ...
In this paper we describe the principles that have guided our design and the experience we have gained building multi-wire proportional chambers detectors for the ultra-cold neutron (UCN) source at...
USE OF FEDERATED OBJECT MODELING TO DEVELOP A MACRO-SYSTEM MODEL FOR (2009)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working on technology that could change our transportation fuel from gasoline to hydrogen. To assist in that effort, we are developing a macro-system model...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This tutorial on parallel and distributed simulation systems reviews some of the traditional synchronization techniques and presents some recent advances. 1
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A growing number of business process management software vendors are offering simulation capabilities to extend their modeling functions and enhance their analytical proficiencies. Simulation is...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Shipping from Yokohama to New York and St. Johns, Newfoundland is simulated by VSLAM for two routes: the Panama Canal, using fast and slow bluewater ships, and the Northwest Passage, using...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2009)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF METHODS FOR SIMULATION OUTPUT ANALYSIS This paper reviews statistical methods for analyzing output data from computer simulations. Specifically, it focuses on the estimation...
Indications of Conical Emission of Charged Hadrons at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (2009)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
Beam-energy and system-size dependence of dynamical net charge fluctuations (2009)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
First Measurement of the Neutron beta Asymmetry with Ultracold Neutrons (2009)
Pattie, RW, Anaya, J, Back, HO, Boissevain, JG, Bowles, TJ, Broussard, LJ, ...
We report the first measurement of an angular correlation parameter in neutron beta decay using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). We utilize UCN with energies below about 200 neV, which we guide...
First measurement of the neutron β asymmetry with ultracold neutrons (2009)
Anaya, J., Back, H. O., Boissevain, J. G., Bowles, T. J., Broussard, L. J., ...
We report the first measurement of an angular correlation parameter in neutron β decay using polarized ultracold neutrons (UCN). We utilize UCN with energies below about 200 neV, which we guide and...
Chen, X., Ma, X.M., Ma, S.W., Coenraads, P.J., Zhang, C.M., Liu, J., ...
2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is a ubiquitously distributed endocrine-disrupting chemical and reproductive toxicant. In order to elucidate low-dose TCDD-mediated effects on reproductive...
Integrins are required for the differentiation of visceral endoderm (2009)
Liu, J., He, X. W., Corbett, S. A., Lowry, S. F., Graham, A. M., Fässler, R., ...
First Measurement of the Neutron beta Asymmetry with Ultracold Neutrons (2009)
Pattie, RW, Anaya, J, Back, HO, Boissevain, JG, Bowles, TJ, Broussard, LJ, ...
Liu, J., Wang, B., Ding, Q., Kuang, X., Soon, W., Zorita, E.
The authors investigate how the global monsoon (GM) precipitation responds to the external and anthropogenic forcing in the last millennium by analyzing a pair of control and forced millennium...
K. W. Bowman, J. A. Logan, C. L. Heald, J. Liu, M. Luo, ...
We conduct an inverse modeling analysis of measurements of atmospheric CO from the TES and MOPITT satellite instruments using the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model to quantify emissions of CO...
Ice breakup forecast in the reach of the Yellow River: the support vector machines approach (2009)
H. Zhou, W. Li, C. Zhang, J. Liu
Accurate lead-time forecast of ice breakup is one of the key aspects for ice flood prevention and reducing losses. In this paper, a new data-driven model based on the Statistical Learning Theory was...
Analysis of ionospheric plasma perturbations before Wenchuan earthquake (2009)
X. Zhang, X. Shen, J. Liu, X. Ouyang, J. Qian, S. Zhao
Based on data recorded by the French DEMETER satellite, plasma perturbations have been analyzed before the Wenchuan 8.0 earthquake which occurred on 12 May 2008. Using the revisited orbits, the...
Ye, L., Liu, J., Wong, D. T., Zhu, T.
Background We evaluated the effects of conventional tracheal tube orientation on success of intubation through an intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA) in Mallampati class 3 or 4 patients. Methods...
Design and Control of a Flight-Style AUV with Hovering Capability (2009)
Liu, J., Furlong, M.E., Palmer, A., Phillips, A.B., Turnock, S.R., Sharkh, S.M.
Abstract—The small flight-style Delphin AUV is designed to evaluate the performance of a long range survey AUV with the additional capability to hover and manoeuvre at slow speed. Delphin’s hull...
Q. Deng, G. Zhou, J. Liu, S. Liu, H. Duan, D. Zhang
Global climate change in the real world always exhibited simultaneous changes in multiple factors. Prediction of ecosystem responses to multi-factor global changes in a future world strongly relies...
J. Liu, S. Kang, T. Gong, A. Lu
This study analyzed satellite images and long term climate variables from a high-elevation meteorological station (4730 m) and streamflow records to examine hydrological response of Nam Co Lake (4718...
Montero, A. J., Diaz-Montero, C. M., Millikan, R. E., Liu, J., Hodges, S., ...
Background: To correlate serum cytokine and angiogenic factor (CAF) levels with overall survival (OS) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) treated with interferon- (IFN-). Patients and methods:...
Experimental-numerical analysis of dissolution (2009)
poster presentation international, no proceedings
Klee, M., Van Esch, H., Keur, W., Kumar, B., Liu, J., ...
Thin-film ferroelectric capacitors have been integrated with resistors and active functions such as ESD protection into small, miniaturized modules, which enable a board space saving of up to 80%....
Zhang, W, Smith, A, Liu, J, Cheung, NS, Zhou, S, Liu, K, ...
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a neurotrophic peptide. Here, we show that PACAP recruits Rap1 into caveolin-enriched membrane subdomains in PC12 cells and activates...
REFERENCE MODELS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN AND CONFIGURATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Today more and more essential processes are conducted across enterprise borders, inducing additional challenges in terms of different languages, process types and ontology. Business Process Modelling...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper proposes an approach to join the analytical system to the real-time operational war game system. The interoperability issues of these two heterogeneous war game systems are fully explored...
ABSTRACT AIRSPACE GEOMETRY AND 4D FLIGHT PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The authors present uncomplicated and well established equations that can be used in simulation or real-world applications to determine key crossing points and aircraft proximity when the trajectory...
Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Four algorithms, all variants of Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA), are proposed. The original one-measurement SPSA uses an estimate of the gradient of objective function L...
OBSERVATIONS ON MATERIAL FLOW IN SUPPLY CHAINS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper summarizes one group of recent simulation studies comparing replenishment strategies. Time-phased planning, implemented using DRP and MRP logic, continuous-review reorder point (ROP) and...
User-Centric Analysis of Perceived QoS in 4G IP Mobile/Wireless Networks (2008)
M. Siebert, H. Chaouchi, A. Jahan, I. Demeure, I. Armuelles, L. Palma, ...
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Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION OF QUEUES WITH SPREADSHEETS: A TEACHING CASE This paper describes the use of spreadsheets combined with simple VBA code as a tool for teaching queuing theory and...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper presents the modeling of batch processes using discrete event simulation. Discrete event simulation is often used for transactional-based processes; however, this paper describes an...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A federation approach is used to expand the geographic extent of MANA (Map Aware Non-uniform Automata), a cellular-automaton based agent simulation, in order to support a study of investment...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Despite growing popularity of small-scale clusters built out of off-the-shelf components, there has been little research on how these small-scale clusters behave under different scheduling policies....
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper provides simulation practitioners and consumers with a grounding in how discrete-event simulation software works. Topics include discrete-event systems; entities, resources, control...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A GLASS FLOAT LINE SIMULATION: MODELING METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS A glass float line begins as a continuous process, liquid glass in a furnace, being pulled down a cooling conveyor in a continuous...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This research explores analytical models useful in the design of vehicle-based Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) to support semiconductor manufacturing. The objective is to correctly...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is developing the FCS System of Systems Simulation Environment (FSE) to provide the “real world wraparound ” to the FCS System of Systems Simulation...
EFFECTIVE DESIGN OF AN ASSEMBLY LINE USING MODELING & SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The paper presents the results of a research work regarding the effective design of an assembly line for heaters production. Considering that the real plant still doesn’t exist, simulation has been...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Simulation professionals understand the importance of accurate data for model validation. Traditional sources of simulation data come from information technology systems, manual records from staff,...
CIMS: A FRAMEWORK FOR INFRASTRUCTURE INTERDEPENDENCY MODELING AND ANALYSIS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Today’s society relies greatly upon an array of complex national and international infrastructure networks, such as transportation, utilities, telecommunication, and even financial networks. While...
System-Size Independence of Directed Flow Measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (2008)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We measure directed flow (ν_1) for charged particles in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at √S_(NN)=200 and 62.4 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity (η), transverse momentum (p_t), and collision...
FLEXIBLE EXPERIMENTATION AND ANALYSIS FOR HYBRID DEVS AND MPC MODELS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Discrete-event simulation and control-theoretic approaches lend themselves to studying semiconductor manufacturing supply-chain systems. In this work, we detail a modeling approach for semiconductor...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Bus crew scheduling is a complex problem to solve because of the large number of resources that need to be managed, complexity of allocating crew shifts, rising cost of crew and unpredictability of...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Performing realistic simulations of Internet packet traffic on a national or global level is a daunting task from both the modeling and the computational perspective. We present the MIITS...
Online available since 2006/Feb/15 Study on the Virtual Wheel and Grinding Process (2008)
F. Xu, F. Liang, J. Liu, Y. D. Gong
Abstract. In this paper the modeling method of object entity in the environment of virtual is introduced and the three-dimensional simulation model of grinding wheel is established in Visual C++...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
VARIANCE REDUCTION IN THE SIMULATION OF CALL CENTERS We show via concrete illustrations how the variance can be reduced in the simulation of a telephone call center to estimate the fraction of calls...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
There is a long lasting debate concerning the rapidly increasing energy prices in Sweden. For industry the prices has increased by roughly 100 percent the last 5 years. This situation has resulted in...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Distributed simulation is used very little in industry, especially when compared with the interest in distributed simulation from research and from the military domain. In order to answer the...
SPLITTING FOR RARE-EVENT SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Splitting and importance sampling are the two primary techniques to make important rare events happen more frequently in a simulation, and obtain an unbiased estimator with much smaller variance than...
DISTRIBUTED DISCRETE EVENT INFRASTRUCTURE (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The PDES literature offers a rich set of techniques for distributed and efficient simulation. However, there is a growing need for simulators that support agent-based applications, and PDES systems...
A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SCALABLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK MODELING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Emerging needs in transportation network modeling and simulation are raising new challenges with respect to scalability of network size and vehicular traffic intensity, speed of simulation for...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Firms, investors, venture capitalists, market analysts and the government, amongst others, are interested in the future evolution and dynamics of a market as it defines their role/participation or...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The UK National Blood Service (NBS) is a public funded body that is responsible for distributing blood and associated products. A discrete-event simulation of the NBS supply chain in the Southampton...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Contemporary technology for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) integrates computer aided design (CAD) and engineering analysis (CAE) to support rapid, distributed, team-oriented product data...
THE MODELING ARCHITECTURE FOR TECHNOLOGY, RESEARCH, AND EXPERIMENTATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
eXperimentation (MATREX) program is the foremost distributed modeling and simulation environment in the US Army, providing a unifying M&S architecture, supporting tools, and infrastructure to...
DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION IN INDUSTRY – A SURVEY (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Distributed simulation is used very little in industry, especially when compared with the interest in distributed simulation from research and from the military domain. In order to answer the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Computational modeling of biological systems is becoming increasingly common as scientists attempt to understand biological phenomena in their full complexity. Here we distinguish between two types...
ANALYZING INTERNET PACKET TRACES USING LINDLEY’S RECURSION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Internet trace packet data for a given network link contains information on each packet’s arrival time and size. An important problem is to model the congestion packets experienced over the...
A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SCALABLE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK MODELING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Emerging needs in transportation network modeling and simulation are raising new challenges with respect to scalability of network size and vehicular traffic intensity, speed of simulation for...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
With the development of distributed modeling and simulation, it is necessary for the RTI to support large-scale applications. However, many RTIs can not support largescale distributed simulations...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this work, we consider the problem of scheduling arriving jobs to a single machine where the objective is to minimize the mean tardiness. The scheduler has the option of reducing the processing...
PASSENGER TRAVEL BEHAVIOR MODEL IN RAILWAY NETWORK SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Transportation planners and public transport operators alike have become increasingly aware of the need to diffuse the concentration of the peak period travel. Differentiated pricing is one possible...
Decision Tree; Decision Table (2008)
Cryptococcus Neoformans, J. Liu, X. Chen, P. Putten, F. J. Verbeek
The yeast Cryptococcus neoformans can cause fatal infections such as meningitis. Its capsule size presents great variance under infection and different culture medium. We developed automated...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper illustrates the use of mathematical programming in computing gradient estimators. Consistency property of these estimators is established under the usual assumptions for IPA gradient...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
COMPILED CODE IN DISTRIBUTED LOGIC SIMULATION A logic simulation approach known as compiled-code eventdriven simulation was developed in the past for sequential logic simulation. It improves...
System-Size Independence of Directed Flow Measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (2008)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
Cloning, expression and location of RNase9 in human epididymis (2008)
Liu, J, Li, JY, Wang, HY, Zhang, CL, Li, N, Lin, YQ, ...
Abstract Background Mammalian spermatozoa become fully motile and fertile during transit through the luminal fluid of the epididymis. At least 200 proteins are present in the epididymal lumen, but...
Forward Neutral-Pion Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in p plus p Collisions at s=200 GeV (2008)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
Spin-dephasing anisotropy for electrons in a diffusive quasi-1D GaAs wire (2008)
Liu, J., Last, T., Koop, E. J., Denega, S., Van Wees, B. J., Van Der Wal, C. H.
We present a numerical study of dephasing of electron spin ensembles in a diffusive quasi-one-dimensional GaAs wire due to the D'yakonov-Perel' spin-dephasing mechanism. For widths of the wire below...
Rizo, P. J., Pugžlys, A., Liu, J., Reuter, D., Wieck, A. D., Van Der Wal, C. H., ...
A compact cryogenic Kerr microscope for operation in the small volume of high-field magnets is described. It is suited for measurements both in Voigt and Faraday configuration. Coupled with a pulsed...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
ESTIMATING EXPECTED COMPLETION TIMES WITH PROBABILISTIC JOB ROUTING A common problem in production environments is the need to estimate the remaining time in system for work-inprogress jobs....
AN HLA-BASED MULTIAGENT SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED RESOURCE ALLOCATION AFTER STRONG EARTHQUAKES (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this paper the author presents a distributed simulation system for disaster response activities based on the High Level Architecture (HLA). This simulation system focuses on resource management...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Nearly every well installation process nowadays relies on some sort of risk assessment study, given the high costs involved. Those studies focus mostly on estimating the total time required by the...
D. Ruan, D. Maes, H. Aït Abderrahim, J. Liu, J. B. Yang
In this informal talk, we will present various uncertainty theories for different purposes within cost estimations for large scale engineering projects. We will provide a detailed case-study on the...
RANKING AND SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
We present sequential ranking and selection statistical procedures that determine the best simulated model configuration among competing alternatives. The best in this context denotes the largest...
INCORPORATING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN HEALTHCARE SIMULATION MODELS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
For many years, simulation has been used to evaluate the outcomes from medical interventions designed to improve patients ’ health. However in practice these outcomes can be greatly affected by...
IMPLEMENTATION OF TIME MANAGEMENT IN A RUNTIME INFRASTRUCTURE (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The High Level Architecture (HLA) time management is concerned with mechanisms for guaranteeing message order, process synchronization and execution correctness in distributed simulations. Time...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The Discrete Event Simulation (DES) process interaction world view describes models that focus on simulated entities that progress through a series of temporally related activities. DES formalisms...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this paper, we investigate the influence of several machine criticality measures on the performance of a shifting bottleneck heuristic for complex job shops. The shifting bottleneck heuristic is a...
Local Area Augmentation System test bed, the LAAS Test Prototype. (2008)
Mark R. Dickinson, Senior Mathematician, Navigation Branch William, J. Hughes Technical, John Warburton, Mark Dickinson, ...
manager for development and operation of the FAA’s
THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONCEPT PROTOTYPE FOR BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (2008)
J. Zhang, J. Liu, M. Li, J. Pan, J. Han, L. Tuo, ...
This paper presents current research activities for developing a Concept Prototype for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (CPBOG) at the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The System is...
A SIMULATION ALGORITHM FOR DYNAMIC STRUCTURE DEVS MODELING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Real-Time System (RTS) correctness and timeliness are critical. Modeling and Simulation techniques have been widely used for testing particular conditions on these systems. Recently, the DEVS...
A. K. Jerebko, G. P. Schmidt, X. Zhou, J. Bi, V. An, J. Liu, ...
Abstract. This study evaluates a robust parametric modeling approach for computer-aided detection (CAD) of vertebrae column metastases in whole-body MRI. Our method involves constructing a model...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Systems Biology is aimed at analyzing the behavior and interrelationships of biological systems and is characterized by combining experimentation, theory, and computation. Dedicated to exploring...
STOCHASTIC GRADIENT ESTIMATION USING A SINGLE DESIGN POINT (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Using concepts arising in control variates, we propose estimating gradients using Monte Carlo data from a single design point. Our goal is to create a statistically efficient estimator that is easy...
L. An, Q. A. Fu, C. G. Lu, J. Liu, J. Am, Chem Soc, ...
18. Materials and methods are available as supporting
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
APPLICATION OF STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR AN URBAN CORRIDOR This paper presents a stochastic traffic signal optimization method that consists of the CORSIM microscopic traffic simulation...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper describes a novel framework used to characterize a J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) application and develop models of the application by using Java method tracing in a Java-technology based...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
proactive control of real material flow systems. In consequence of real or potential state changes, proactive control (unlike reactive control) makes foresighted and targetoriented acting possible....
DISTRIBUTED DISCRETE EVENT INFRASTRUCTURE (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The PDES literature offers a rich set of techniques for distributed and efficient simulation. However, there is a growing need for simulators that support agent-based applications, and PDES systems...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this paper we describe a new simulation tool used to study the creation and optimization of propagation maps for Node State Routing protocols within wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. The...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The dynamic, non-linear, and complex nature of a supply chain with numerous interactions among its entities are best evaluated using simulation models. The optimization of such system is not amenable...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper describes a novel framework used to characterize a J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) application and develop models of the application by using Java method tracing in a Java-technology based...
Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations (2008)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, $Cu + Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 62.4, 200 GeV, and $p + p$...
Low-complexity RLS algorithms using dichotomous coordinate descent iterations (2008)
Zakharov, Y.V., White, G.P., Liu, J.
In this paper, we derive low-complexity recursive least squares (RLS) adaptive filtering algorithms. We express the RLS problem in terms of auxiliary normal equations with respect to increments of...
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
The STAR collaboration at RHIC reports measurements of the inclusive yield of non-photonic electrons, which arise dominantly from semi-leptonic decays of heavy flavor mesons, over a broad range of...
Strange Particle Production in $p+p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$= 200 GeV (2008)
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
We present strange particle spectra and yields measured at mid-rapidity in sqrt text s=200 GeV proton-proton (p+p) collisions at RHIC. We find that the previously observed universal transverse mass...
Neutral Kaon Interferometry in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV (2008)
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
We present the first statistically meaningful results from two-K0s interferometry in heavy-ion collisions. A model that takes the effect of the strong interaction into account has been used to fit...
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
We report a measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A_LL and the differential cross section for inclusive midrapidity jet production in polarized proton collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV....
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter v_2 for pions, kaons, protons, Lambda, bar Lambda, Xi+bar Xi, and \Omega + bar Omega, along with v_4 for pions, kaons, protons, and...
Global polarization measurement in Au+Au collisions (2008)
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
The system created in non-central relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions possesses large orbital angular momentum. Due to spin-orbit coupling, particles produced in such a system could become...
Abelev, B.I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M.M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B.D., ...
We report the first measurement of the opening angle distribution between pairs of jets produced in high-energy collisions of transversely polarized protons. The measurement probes (Sivers)...
MODELING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UNDERWATER SONAR (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss an object-oriented simulation framework/model for the US Navy that simulates the behavior of ships in a combat environment. This model provides a framework...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper presents a Web-based interior design application named Multiuser Interior Design (MID). We use technologies from virtual reality (VR), the Web, and database to implement MID. It allows...
HOW TO BUILD VALID AND CREDIBLE SIMULATION MODELS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
In this tutorial we present techniques for building valid and credible simulation models. Ideas to be discussed include the importance of a definitive problem formulation, discussions with...
ASSESSMENT OF THE NIST SHOP DATA MODEL AS A NEUTRAL FILE FORMAT (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper evaluates the shop data model (SDM) being developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in terms of its viability as a neutral file format (NFF) for the...
PULL PRODUCTION CYCLE-TIME UNDER VARYING PRODUCT MIXES (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
To satisfy customer requirements and simultaneously fully utilize the production machines, there is a need to determine appropriate cycle time. Especially in pull systems with varying product mixes,...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
With the development of distributed modeling and simulation, it is necessary for the RTI to support large-scale applications. However, many RTIs can not support largescale distributed simulations...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
SYMBOLIC MODELING OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN PATHWAY LOGIC Pathway Logic is a step towards a vision of symbolic systems biology. It is an approach to modeling cellular processes based on formal...
A METHODOLOGY FOR CONDUCTING COMPOSITE BEHAVIOR MODEL VERIFICATION IN A COMBAT SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The United States Army’s One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) Objective System (OOS) is the next generation of Army high resolution combat models. Its development has leveraged the ever-increasing...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this paper, we discuss the design and use of an objectoriented framework for simulating multi-echelon inventory systems. We present a context for how the framework can be used through its...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
CONCEPTUAL MODELING FOR SIMULATION: ISSUES AND RESEARCH REQUIREMENTS It is generally recognized that conceptual modeling is one of the most vital parts of a simulation study. At the same time, it...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Computational modeling of biological systems is becoming increasingly common as scientists attempt to understand biological phenomena in their full complexity. Here we distinguish between two types...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A DEMONSTRATION OF BIBTEX USAGE FOR WSC PAPERS This sample L ATEX file demonstrates the use of BIBTEX to meet the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) formatting requirements. To accomplish this, the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
COMBINED RANKING AND SELECTION WITH CONTROL VARIATES Nelson and Staum derived R&S procedures that employ control-variate estimators (CVs) instead of sample means to obtain more statistical...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper presents a successful application of simulationbased multi-objective optimization of a complex real-world scheduling problem. Concepts of the implemented simulation-based optimization...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
To explore the dynamics of managerial self-efficacy, a causality model is proposed based on the theory of Bandura's Self-efficacy and Human Resource Management. Furthermore, a qualitative...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A HYBRID METHOD FOR SIMULATION FACTOR SCREENING Factor screening is performed to eliminate unimportant factors so that the remaining important factors can be more thoroughly studied in later...
APPLYING DEVS MODELING FOR DISCRETE EVENT MULTIPLE MODEL CONTROL OF A TIME (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
In recent years, we have developed a Modeling and Simulation-Driven Engineering methodology for engineering embedded Real-Time systems. This approach relies on the use of the DEVS formalism for...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Distributed simulation is attractive for modeling complicated manufacturing systems having many tools and products, such as a semiconductor wafer fabrication line. However, conservative...
SIMULATION ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF FURNACE BATCH SIZE INCREASE IN A DEPOSITION LOOP (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
In the dynamic environment of semiconductor manufacturing operations, a bottleneck could be created at the bake furnaces of the deposition loop as capacity expands. Upgrading of the bake furnaces by...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
SIMULATION INTELLIGENCE AND MODELING FOR MANUFACTURING UNCERTAINTIES The realistic simulation modeling becomes very essential and effective for designing and managing of manufacturing systems, which...
APPLYING SIMULATION IN A SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION CASE (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Supply chain transformation is an emerging service area in the market which aims at helping clients improve their operational efficiency and reduce costs. As a generic technique for the analysis of...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
There is an increasing need for the comprehensive simulation of complex, dynamic, physical systems. Often such simulations are built by coupling existing, component models so that their concurrent...
ABSTRACT SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF SIGNALLING PATHWAYS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Modelling of the dynamics of biochemical reaction networks typically proceeds by solving ordinary differential equations or stochastic simulation via the Gillespie algorithm. More recently,...
ABSTRACT APPROACHES TO COMPLEXITY REDUCTION IN A SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Due to the complexity of biochemical reaction networks, socalled complexity reduction algorithms play a crucial role for making simulations efficient and for dissecting biochemical networks into...
MULTI-AGENT LEARNING MODEL WITH BARGAINING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Decision problems with the features of prisoner’s dilemma are quite common. A general solution to this kind of social dilemma is that the agents cooperate to play a joint action. The Nash...
SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND AGENT-BASED SIMULATIONS FOR WORKFORCE CLIMATE (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A SIMULATION-BASED APPROACH TO TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS OF PORT SECURITY Motivated by the September 11 attacks, we are addressing the problem of policy analysis of supply-chain security. Considering the...
ABSTRACT APPLICATION OF THE DEVS FRAMEWORK IN CONSTRUCTION SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The Discrete Event Systems Specification (DEVS) framework is based on systems engineering principles and is used for modeling and simulation in many application domains. This framework supports a...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper describes the experiences and technical challenges encountered by the Lanner group in building a Java based simulation engine to simulate BPMN diagrams. It highlights the difference...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
We present the results of coverage tests performed to validate our preliminary analysis indicating that determining ‘appropriate ’ run length is more important for obtaining coverage than...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The digital factory concept offers an integrated approach to enhance the product and production engineering processes and simulation is a key technology within this concept. Different types of...
THE SIMULATION PROJECT LIFE-CYCLE: MODELS AND REALITIES (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This panel session will discuss various issues regarding simulation life-cycle models. Simulation life-cycles models have received little attention, and this panel session seeks to generate interest...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Metamodels are used to provide simpler prediction means than the complex simulation models they approximate. Accuracy of a metamodel is one fundamental criterion that is used as the basis for...
ANALYZING STATIC AND TEMPORAL PROPERTIES OF SIMULATION MODELS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper shows how a simulation model can be specified so that its static and temporal properties can be formally analyzed. The approach adopted is based on the integration of Formal Methods (FMs)...
ABSTRACT AIRSPACE GEOMETRY AND 4D FLIGHT PROXIMITY DETECTION FOR SIMULATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The authors present uncomplicated and well established equations that can be used in simulation or real-world applications to determine key crossing points and aircraft proximity when the trajectory...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper argues that the value of simulation and modeling technology tends to be contingent on creating models that can offer a systematic and well defined way of representing firm's structure...
A DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS APPROACH TO READINESS RISK ANALYSIS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
We develop a simulation model to aid in identifying and evaluating promising alternatives to achieve improvements in weapon system-level availability when services for system components are...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF INTEGRATED PATH ESTIMATORS We describe the results of numerical experiments evaluating the efficiency of variance estimators based on integrated sample paths. The idea...
A BEE COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM TO JOB SHOP SCHEDULING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
In the face of globalization and rapidly shrinking product life cycle, manufacturing companies are trying different means to improve productivity through management of machine utilization and product...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Standards and standardized data representation to allow efficient exchange of information is an important topic within systems biology. Within this area there is currently a rapid development of new...
MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF HUMAN DECISION-MAKING IN MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The simulation of manufacturing processes mainly focuses on the structure of machinery resources and the flow of material, but the inclusion of the personnel in the simulation model is only slowly...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
We present a hyper-interaction platform which integrates several newly developed techniques, including motion classification, a motion reaction control mechanism and a high precision 3-D model of the...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
High-resolution combat models have become so complex that the time necessary to create and analyze a scenario has become unacceptably long. A lower resolution approach to entity-level simulation can...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this paper, we present the results of a simulation study for semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities (wafer fabs) where we multiplied the number of tools per tool group and the number of...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The presented work describes the recent research being conducted by the authors in the field of visualization of simulated construction processes. The underlying uncertainty involved in almost all...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A module-based modeling method was developed to analyze the production-distribution systems by using a discrete event simulation with ARENA. Excel VBA was also adopted to automatically generate the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The pool of molecular interaction data is growing fast but nevertheless remains fragmented. Combining together data coming from heterogeneous sources is a crucial step towards a deeper understanding...
SPECIFYING AND SIMULATING MODERN WARFARE SCENARIOS WITH ITSIMBW (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The aim of this paper is the presentation of the military multi-agent simulation system ITSimBw. Its decisive features include a strictly agent-based approach to modeling, in which every entity in a...
GA DIRECTED SELF-ORGANIZED SEARCH AND ATTACK UAV SWARMS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Self-organization offers many potential benefits to autonomous multi-UAV systems. This research investigates the use of a self-organization (SO) framework for evolving UAV swarm behavior. This SO...
District General Hospital Performance Simulation (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
SEQUENCE STEP ALGORITHM FOR CONTINUOUS RESOURCE UTILIZATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The sequence step algorithm addresses for the first time the problem of scheduling repetitive projects with probabilistic activity durations while maintaining continuous resource utilization. This...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Low-volume, custom-built or specialty equipment, by nature, has little statistically significant data to predict system availability over the equipment life. Their unique constructions are often...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
As exploration operations expand further into space, NASA must enhance its understanding and capability of the increasingly complex “supply chain ” management of materials, people, information,...
THE OPERATIONS OF AIRPORT SECURITY CHECKPOINTS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
For most security planners, a key challenge is to continuously evaluate how changes or additions to their facilities or procedures impact security effectiveness, operational costs, and passenger...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Identified as a strategic area, supply chain transformation plays a critical role in today’s IBM business. In this paper, we introduce an effort in IBM Research Division named SmartSCOR, which...
A POLYTOPE METHOD FOR ESTIMATING FACTOR MAIN EFFECTS EFFICIENTLY (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Consider the problem of identifying important factors influencing a response in a simulation experiment where the number of factors is large. When the direction of the effect of factors is known, the...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
To maximize the cost efficiency in constructing the sports facilities for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, we applied the state-of-the-art construction operations simulation modeling to plan the...
OF THE JOINT INTEGRATED MISSION MODEL (JIMM) (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
The Joint Integrated Mission Model (JIMM) is a legacy real-time discrete-event simulator. Its initial singlethreaded implementation employed a memory pool to speed up run-time performance and easily...
APPLYING MODEL REFERENCE ADAPTIVE SEARCH TO AMERICAN-STYLE OPTION PRICING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper considers the application of stochastic optimization methods to American-style option pricing. We apply a randomized optimization algorithm called Model Reference Adaptive Search (MRAS) to...
ON-LINE INSTRUMENTATION FOR SIMULATION-BASED OPTIMIZATION (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Traditionally, a simulation-based optimization (SO) system is designed as a black-box in which the internal details of the optimization process is hidden from the user and only the final optimization...
MODELING SEMICONDUCTOR TOOLS FOR SMALL LOTSIZE FAB SIMULATIONS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Short cycle times are critical to the success of semiconductor manufacturing. The addition of more and more mask layers leads to higher raw process times and makes short cycle times an increasingly...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Widespread deployment of sensors in roadways and vehicles is creating new challenges in effectively exploiting the wealth of real-time transportation system data. However, the precision of the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Availability management influences key supply chain performance metrics such as customer service level and inventory. The availability management process involves generating Available-to-Promise...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
In this paper, we consider a multi-objective simulation optimization problem with three features: huge solution space, high uncertainty in performance measures, and multi-objective problem which...
A SOCIETY OF SIMULATION APPROACH TO DYNAMIC INTEGRATION OF SIMULATIONS * (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
MATERIAL HANDLING RESOURCE UTILIZATION SIMULATION STUDY FOR STAMPING PLANT (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper describes the application of dynamic simulation to evaluate material handling resource utilization for a stamping plant in the automotive industry. The other objective of this study was...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A logic simulation approach known as compiled-code event-driven simulation was developed in the past for sequential logic simulation. It improves simulation performance by reducing the logic...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Pathway Logic is a step towards a vision of symbolic systems biology. It is an approach to modeling cellular processes based on formal methods. In particular, formal executable models of processes...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A strategic curriculum revision concerning simulation methods, production operations, and facility layout and material handling courses in a product design and manufacturing engineering curriculum is...
ESTIMATING EXPECTED COMPLETION TIMES WITH PROBABILISTIC JOB ROUTING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
ABSTRACT 1. be too large to be of value (as it contains two or A common problem in production environments is the need to estimate the remaining time in system for work-inprogress jobs. Simulation...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
THE “BEST ” ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING STOCHASTIC MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMS We present a new algorithm for solving two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programs (SMIPs) having discrete first-stage...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
QUASI-MONTE CARLO STRATEGIES FOR STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION In this paper we discuss the issue of solving stochastic optimization problems using sampling methods. Numerical results have shown that using...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Interoperability between commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) simulation packages (CSPs) is a topic which has been discussed for many years without a solution. With the advent of the High Level...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper presents a simulation model which describes the
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS OF COMPARISON-WITH-A-STANDARD PROCEDURES We investigate the performance of a heuristic sequential procedure to compare a finite number of designs with respect to a single...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
INDIRECT CYCLE-TIME QUANTILE ESTIMATION FOR NON-FIFO DISPATCHING POLICIES Previous work has shown that the Cornish-Fisher expansion (CFE) can be used successfully in conjunction with discrete event...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
WIRELESS NETWORK SIMULATION EXTENSIONS IN SIDE/SMURPH We describe the most recent step in the evolution of SIDE/SMURPH and, specifically, a generic model of a wireless channel, which enables to use...
THE IMPACT OF ORDINAL ON RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Traditionally, Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is cardinal in nature. Ordinal optimization was only introduced recently. Since ordinal optimization has been proven to be successful in certain...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
This paper presents a framework (named Bridge_Sim) that aids contractors in planning bridge deck construction using computer simulation. The proposed framework estimates the time and cost required...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper presents the performance evaluation of a CMB (Chandy-Misra-Bryant) protocol from the perspective of execution time. The performance of each logical process in simulation is measured. Our...
OPTIMAL CONTROL OF MAKE-TO-ORDER MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS VIA SELECTED ORDER ACCEPTANCE (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Capacity constrained make-to-order manufacturing systems with exogenously set due dates and heavy tardiness penalties can be effectively managed by selective acceptance of orders, especially when the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Certain business objectives cannot be met without the interaction and communication between different systems. An interesting concept called system of systems (SoS), which aims to describe this...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Managing telecommunication networks involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of statistical data. The standard approach to estimating quantiles involves capturing all the relevant data (what...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Systems Biology is aimed at analyzing the behavior and interrelationships of biological systems and is characterized by combining experimentation, theory, and computation. Dedicated to exploring...
ABSTRACT STOCHASTIC SHIPYARD SIMULATION WITH SIMYARD (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
SimYard is a stochastic shipyard simulation tool designed to evaluate the labor costs of executing different schedules in a shipyard production environment. SimYard simulates common production...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Supply chain managers today face an unremitting challenge to their capabilities in both the volume and complexity of factors to be reconciled. In order to achieve more effective decision making, it...
The NNSA’s Y-12 National Security Complex is a (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
As supply chains evolve beyond the confines of individual organizations, information sharing has become the Holy Grail in supply chain technology. Although the value of information sharing is well...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper presents an innovative methodology that combines simulation, data mining, and knowledge-based techniques to determine the near- and long-term impacts of candidate aircraft engine...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Composition of models is considered essential in developing heterogeneous complex systems and in particular simulation models capable of expressing a system’s structure and behavior. This paper...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
In spite of many advances in business process simulation technologies, their adoption by the business analyst community has been primarily limited to specialists. We propose a Business Process...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
The design of rail infrastructure is a difficult task. Many parties are involved, and the tasks range from stakeholder issues to very detailed technical questions, such as control design. Simulation...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) is a new approach to modeling systems comprised of interacting autonomous agents. ABMS promises to have far-reaching effects on the way that businesses use...
APPLICATIONS OF DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION TO SUPPORT MANUFACTURING LOGISTICS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
This paper presents a literature survey on recent use of discrete-event simulation in real-world manufacturing logistics decision-making. The sample of the survey consists of 52 relevant application...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A SIMULATION MODEL FOR BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS IN AN EMERGENCY ROOM The use of biological agents as weapons can cause disease and deaths in sufficient numbers that can greatly impact a city or...
ABSTRACT CELLDESIGNER: A MODELING TOOL FOR BIOCHEMICAL NETWORKS (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Understanding of logic and dynamics of gene-regulatory and biochemical networks is a major challenge of systems biology. To facilitate this research topic, we have developed CellDesigner, a modeling...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Ontological analysis has been shown to be an effective first step in the construction of robust knowledge based systems. However, the modeling and simulation community has not taken advantage of the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A NEW APPROACH FOR PARALLEL STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS We propose a new procedure for building confidence interval estimators of steady-state parameters in discrete event simulations. The procedure...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
ENHANCING BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT WITH SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION A growing number of business process management software vendors are offering simulation capabilities to extend their modeling...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
A new notion of participation is at stake with advances in technologically mediated work environments. Insufficient bandwidth and insufficiently powerful, crudely coordinated tools resulted in...
ABSTRACT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE, BUT NO SIMPLER: (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
We start with basic terminology and concepts of modeling, and decompose the art of modeling as a process. This overview of the process helps clarify when we should or should not use simulation...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
A GLASS FLOAT LINE SIMULATION: MODELING METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS A glass float line begins as a continuous process, liquid glass in a furnace, being pulled down a cooling conveyor in a continuous...
ABSTRACT Flexible Experimentation and Analysis for Hybrid DEVS and MPC Models (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Discrete-event simulation and control-theoretic approaches lend themselves to studying semiconductor manufacturing supply-chain systems. In this work, we detail a modeling approach for semiconductor...
USING SYSTEM DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS TO COMPARE CAPACITY MODELS FOR PRODUCTION PLANNING (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
While a variety of optimization formulations of production planning problems have been proposed over the last fifty years, the majority of these are based on simple models of capacity that fail to...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
world view describes models that focus on simulated entities that progress through a series of temporally related activities. DES formalisms and vendor approaches for representing DES models serve as...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
Composition of models is considered essential in developing heterogeneous complex systems and in particular simulation models capable of expressing a system’s structure and behavior. This paper...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
SYMBOLIC MODELING OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN PATHWAY LOGIC Pathway Logic is a step towards a vision of symbolic systems biology. It is an approach to modeling cellular processes based on formal...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
We consider a logistics network where a single warehouse distributes a single item to multiple retailers. Retailers in the network participate in a Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) program with the...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
We develop a class of control variates for the American option pricing problem that are constructed through the use of MARS – multivariate adaptive regression splines. The splines approximate the...
Garcia-Closas, M., Hall, P., Nevanlinna, H., Pooley, K., Morrison, J., Richesson, D.A., ...
A three-stage genome-wide association study recently identified single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in five loci (fibroblast growth receptor 2 (FGFR2), trinucleotide repeat containing 9 (TNRC9),...
Zhang, F., Zheng*, H. Z., Ji, Y., Liu, J., Li, G. R.
By biasing a single barrier heterostructure with a 500nm-thick GaAs layer as the absorption layer, the spin dynamics for both of the first and second subband near the AlAs barrier are examined. We...
Manuscript information: Text: 20 pages (2008)
J. Liu, K. E. Kasza, G. H. Koenderink, D. Vader, C. P. Broedersz, D. A. Weitz
Abstract: Cross-linked actin networks are remarkable materials with unusual mechanical properties. Their elasticity is typically highly nonlinear, exhibiting a striking increase in stiffness with...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
VARIANCE REDUCTION IN THE SIMULATION OF CALL CENTERS We show via concrete illustrations how the variance can be reduced in the simulation of a telephone call center to estimate the fraction of calls...
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
From the concept exploration for a weapon system to training simulators, from hardware-in-the-loop simulators to mission planning tools, trajectory simulations are used throughout the life cycle of a...
Small Polyhedron Reconnection: A New Way to Eliminate Poorly-Shaped Tetrahedra (2008)
Jianfei Liu, Shuli Sun, J. Liu, S. Sun
Abstract. Local transformation, or topological reconnection, is one of effective procedures of mesh improvement method, especially for three-dimensional tetrahedral mesh. Although the existing local...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto, ...
Splitting and importance sampling are the two primary techniques to make important rare events happen more frequently in a simulation, and obtain an unbiased estimator with much smaller variance than...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
REQUIREMENTS FOR DDDAS FLEXIBLE POINT SUPPORT Dynamic data-driven application systems (DDDAS) integrate computer simulations with experimental observations to study phenomena with greater speed and...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
WIRELESS NETWORK SIMULATION EXTENSIONS IN SIDE/SMURPH We describe the most recent step in the evolution of SIDE/SMURPH and, specifically, a generic model of a wireless channel, which enables to use...
Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference (2008)
L. F. Perrone, F. P. Wiel, J. Liu, B. G. Lawson, D. M. Nicol, R. M. Fujimoto
GRID ENABLED SEQUENTIAL DESIGN AND ADAPTIVE METAMODELING Metamodeling is emerging as a valuable new tool in simulation: complex computer codes can be approximated by surrogate models (analytic,...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We present the first spin alignment measurements for the K*(0)(892) and phi(1020) vector mesons produced at midrapidity with transverse momenta up to 5 GeV/c at root s(NN) = 200 GeV at RHIC. The...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We present STAR results on the elliptic flow upsilon(2) Of charged hadrons, strange and multistrange particles from,root s(NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider...
Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2008)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We report on the observed differences in production rates of strange and multistrange baryons in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)=200 GeV compared to p+p interactions at the same energy. The strange baryon...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
Photoproduction reactions occur when the electromagnetic field of a relativistic heavy ion interacts with another heavy ion. The STAR Collaboration presents a measurement of rho(0) and direct...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We report a new STAR measurement of the longitudinal double-spin asymmetry A(LL) for inclusive jet production at midrapidity in polarized p+p collisions at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 200...
Efficiency of finding muon track trigger primitives in CMS cathode strip chambers (2008)
Acosta, D., Adam, A., Andreev, V., Apollinari, G., Baek, Y., Banicz, K., ...
In the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, muon detection in the forward direction is accomplished by cathode strip chambers (CSC). These detectors identify muons, provide a fast muon trigger,...
Tang, N.J., Liu, J., Coenraads, P.J., Dong, L., Zhao, L.J., Ma, S.W., ...
Occupational exposure to certain polychlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons such as dioxins has been suggested to cause chloracne which is a kind of skin disease. The molecular mechanisms of...
Mass budget of the grounded ice in Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf system (2008)
Wen, J., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Jezek, K. C., Huybrechts, P., Csatho, B. M., ...
Experimental results obtained from the in situ observation of the dissolution of spherical Al2O3 particles in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-containing melts at elevated temperatures are analyzed using a lattice...
G$^0$ Electronics and Data Acquisition (Forward-Angle Measurements) (2008)
Marchand, D., Arvieux, J., Bimbot, L., Biselli, A., Bouvier, J., Breuer, H., ...
The G$^0$ parity-violation experiment at Jefferson Lab (Newport News, VA) is designed to determine the contribution of strange/anti-strange quark pairs to the intrinsic properties of the proton. In...
G$^0$ Electronics and Data Acquisition (Forward-Angle Measurements) (2008)
Marchand, D., Arvieux, J., Bimbot, L., Biselli, A., Bouvier, J., Breuer, H., ...
The G$^0$ parity-violation experiment at Jefferson Lab (Newport News, VA) is designed to determine the contribution of strange/anti-strange quark pairs to the intrinsic properties of the proton. In...
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008)
It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in...
Liu, J., Mauzerall, D. L., Horowitz, L. W.
We analyze the effect of varying East Asian (EA) sulfur emissions on sulfate concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere, using a global coupled oxidant-aerosol model (MOZART-2). We conduct a base and...
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008)
It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in...
Forced and internal modes of variability of the East Asian summer monsoon (2008)
The modern instrumental record (1979?2006) is analyzed in an attempt to reveal the dynamical structure and origins of the major modes of interannual variability of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM)...
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008)
It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in...
Liu, J., Mauzerall, D. L., Horowitz, L. W.
We analyze the effect of varying East Asian (EA) sulfur emissions on sulfate concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere, using a global coupled oxidant-aerosol model (MOZART-2). We conduct a base and...
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008)
It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in...
Forced and internal modes of variability of the East Asian summer monsoon (2008)
The modern instrumental record (1979?2006) is analyzed in an attempt to reveal the dynamical structure and origins of the major modes of interannual variability of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM)...
G$^0$ Electronics and Data Acquisition (Forward-Angle Measurements) (2008)
Marchand, D., Arvieux, J., Bimbot, L., Biselli, A., Bouvier, J., Breuer, H., ...
The G$^0$ parity-violation experiment at Jefferson Lab (Newport News, VA) is designed to determine the contribution of strange/anti-strange quark pairs to the intrinsic properties of the proton. In...
Genome-wide promoter analysis uncovers portions of the cancer methylome (2008)
HOQUE, MO, KIM, MS, OSTROW, KL, LIU, J, WISMAN, GBA, PARK, HL, ...
Liu, J, Liu, X, Baeyens, Willy, Delanghe, Joris, Ouyang, J
A new method, based on the chloroauric acid-enhanced luminol chemiluminescence, is established for the chemiluminescent imaging detection of protein blots on nitrocellulose membranes. After...
Tiggelman, M.P.J., Reimann, K., Liu, J., Klee, M., Mauczok, R., Keur, W., ...
Barium strontium titanate with different compositions is deposited using wet-chemical processing on a glass planarization layer, on top of alumina substrates. Three samples were fabricated with...
MI004 miniaturised, high performance ferroelectric and piezoelectric thin film devices (2008)
Klee, M., Keur, W., Mauczok, R., Van Esch, H., De Wild, M., Liu, J., ...
Thin film ferroelectric capacitors have been integrated with resistors and active functions such as ESD protection into small, miniaturized modules, which enable a board space saving of up to 80%....
Tiggelman, M.P.J., Reimann, K., Liu, J., Klee, M., Keur, W., Mauczock, R., ...
A regression-based technique is presented which distinguishes the dielectric loss from the resistive loss of high density planar capacitors in a very wide bandwidth of 0.1–8 GHz. Moreover, the...
J. Liu, D. L. Mauzerall, L. W. Horowitz
We analyze the effect of varying East Asian (EA) sulfur emissions on sulfate concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere, using a global coupled oxidant-aerosol model (MOZART-2). We conduct a base and...
Forced and internal modes of variability of the East Asian summer monsoon (2008)
The modern instrumental record (1979–2006) is analyzed in an attempt to reveal the dynamical structure and origins of the major modes of interannual variability of East Asian summer monsoon (EASM)...
Forced and internal modes of variability of the East Asian summer monsoon (2008)
The modern instrumental record (1979–2006) is analyzed in an attempt to reveal the dynamical structure and origins of the major modes of interannual variability of East Asian summer monsoon...
J. Liu, D. L. Mauzerall, L. W. Horowitz
We analyze the effect of varying East Asian (EA) sulfur emissions on sulfate concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere, using a global coupled oxidant-aerosol model (MOZART-2). We conduct a base and...
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008)
It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in...
Food consumption patterns and their effect on water requirement in China (2008)
It is widely recognized that food consumption patterns significantly impact water requirements. The aim of this paper is to quantify how food consumption patterns influence water requirements in...
J. Liu, E. J. Fertig, H. Li, E. Kalnay, B. R. Hunt, E. J. Kostelich, ...
This paper compares the performance of the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF) with the Physical-Space Statistical Analysis System (PSAS) under a perfect model scenario. PSAS is a 3D-Var...
Legitimacy and corporate governance determinants of executives' remuneration disclosures (2008)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide Australian evidence on both the extent and key determinants of discretionary disclosure in company annual reports of information about top executives'...
Lim, W, Chen, X, Liu, J, Tan, B, Zhou, S, Smith, A, ...
PRK2/PKN? is a Rho effector and a member of the protein kinase C superfamily of serine/threonine kinases. Here, we explore the structure¿function relationship between various motifs in the...
Lin, Y.Q., Li, J.Y., Wang, H.Y., Liu, J., Zhang, C.L., Wang, W.T., ...
BACKGROUND The HEL-75 protein is a β-defensin that was identified by analyzing a human epididymis cDNA library. Studying its function may not only elucidate the mechanisms of host defense, but may...
Current NDT research & development for NPP inspections (2008)
Bieder, P., Dobmann, G., Kröning, M., Liu, J., Ribero, J.G.
The current dynamic process in computing, microelectronics, smart sensors and automation provide NDT system engineers with challenging opportunities for improved NDT solutions. We focus on the...
Liu, H. H., Liu, J., Fan, S. L., Song, M. Z., Han, X. L., Liu, F., ...
The genes encoding DEAD-box helicases play a key role in various abiotic stresses, including temperature, light, oxygen, and salt stress. A salt-responsive gene, designated AvDH1, was isolated from...
Epidural anaesthetic effect of the 8% emulsified isoflurane: a study in rabbits (2008)
Background Studies have shown that local use of volatile anaesthetics produce local anaesthetic effects such as local infiltration anaesthesia (in rats and humans) and spinal anaesthesia (in dogs)....
Current NDT research & development for NPP inspections (2008)
Bieder, P., Dobmann, G., Kröning, M., Liu, J., Ribero, J.G.
The current dynamic process in computing, microelectronics, smart sensors and automation provide NDT system engineers with challenging opportunities for improved NDT solutions. We focus on the...
Second-harmonic generation from complementary split-ring resonators. (2008)
Feth, N., Linden, S., Klein, M.W., Decker, M., Niesler, F.B.P., Zeng, Y., ...
Optics Letters, 33(2008) S.1975-77
A. G. Rinzler, J. Liu, H. Dai, P. Nikolaev, C. B. Huffman, ...
Abstract. We describe, in detail, a readily scalable purification process capable of handling single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) material in large batches. Characterization of the resulting material...
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (2007)
vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1--11 (2000) Approximation algorithms for some graph partitioning problems
The Indiana University Cooler Injector Synchrotron Rf System* (2007)
A. Pei, M. Ellison, D. Friesel, D. Jenner, X. Kang, S. Y. Lee, ...
A 2.2 Tesla-meter synchrotron with 17.4 m circumference is being built at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF). The purpose of the project is to achieve higher luminosity for nuclear...
The Indiana University Cooler Injection Synchrotron Rf Cavity* (2007)
A. Pei, M. Ellison, D. Friesel, D. Jenner, X. Kang, S. Y. Lee, ...
A small 2.2 Tesla-meter booster synchrotron is under construction at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility to boost polarized beam performance in the electron cooled Indiana University Cooler...
J. Liu, K. Asano, Liu Asano Ezura, M. Fukutomi, S. Inagaki, S. Isagawa, ...
In order to apply high-T c material to a real accelerator cavity, it may be indispensable that the material is deposited on metal substrate. It is now possible to align the c axis of YBa 2 Cu 3 O y...
MORSE: An Architecture for 3D Object Recognition based on Invariants (2007)
J. Mundy, R. Curwen, J. Liu, C. Rothwell, A. Zisserman, D. Forsyth
Introduction Over the past few years, there has been considerable interest in the application of geometric invariance to the problem of object recognition[2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. While most work has focused...
Net Criticality Revisited: An Effective Method to Improve Timing in Physical Design * (2007)
H. Chang, E. Shragowitz, J. Liu, H. Youssef, B. Lu, S. Sutanthavibul
Criticality metrics is a type of predictive models used in VLSI design. This work demonstrates that timing in physical design could be substantially improved if circuits were subjected to timing...
Distributed Proxy Server Management: A Self-Organized Approach (2007)
K. C. Tsui, M. J. Kaiser, J. Liu
Abstract. Proxy servers are common solutions to relieve organizational networks from heavy traffic by storing the most frequently referenced web objects in their local cache. These proxies are...
Existence and uniqueness of limit cycles in an enzyme-catalysed reaction system 1
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (2007)
vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1–11 (2000) Approximation algorithms for some graph partitioning problems
Longitudinal Multibunch Feedback Experiment with Switched Filter Bank* (2007)
Pei Ball Ellison, A. Pei, M. Ball, M. Ellison, X. Kang, S. Y. Lee, ...
Fast bunch to bunch feedback is necessary to control instabilities caused by coupled bunch oscillations in high intensity machines. A time domain active feedback scheme is discussed with focus on...
On the Implication Problem in Granular Knowledge Systems (2007)
Previous work seemed to suggest that the logical implication of non-numeric constraints in database systems exactly coincides with that of numeric constraints in probabilistic expert systems,...
Zhang, F., Zheng, H. Z., Ji, Y., Liu, J., Li, G. R.
The manipulation of spin degree of freedom have been demonstrated in spin polarized electron plasma in a heterostructure by using exchange-interaction induced dynamic spin splitting rather than the...
Seel, E. A., Zaebst, D. D., Hein, M. J., Liu, J., Nowlin, S. J., Chen, P.
A retrospective exposure assessment of asbestos, welding fumes, chromium and nickel (in welding fumes) was conducted at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for a nested case–control study of lung cancer...
Four-Probe Measurements of Carbon Nanotubes with Narrow Metal Contacts (2007)
Makarovski, A., Zhukov, A., Liu, J., Finkelstein, G.
We find that electrons in single-wall carbon nanotubes may propagate substantial distances (tens of nanometers) under the metal contacts. We perform four-probe transport measurements of the nanotube...
SU(4) and SU(2) Kondo Effects in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots (2007)
Makarovski, A., Zhukov, A., Liu, J., Finkelstein, G.
We study the SU(4) Kondo effect in carbon nanotube quantum dots, where doubly degenerate orbitals form 4-electron ``shells''. The SU(4) Kondo behavior is investigated for one, two and three electrons...
Koop, E. J., Lerescu, A. I., Liu, J., Van Wees, B. J., Reuter, D., Wieck, A. D., ...
The conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC) shows several features that result from many-body electron interactions. The spin degeneracy in zero magnetic field appears to be spontaneously lifted...
Foster, K., Liu, J., Iannos, A.
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is acquiring airborne mission systems (AMS) that incorporate component-based and distributed computing systems in order to enhance its Network Centric Warfare (NCW)...
Foster, K., Liu, J., Iannos, A.
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is acquiring airborne mission systems (AMS) that incorporate component-based and distributed computing systems in order to enhance its Network Centric Warfare (NCW)...
Persistence of the 0.7 anomaly of quantum point contacts in high magnetic fields (2007)
Koop, E. J., Lerescu, A. I., Liu, J., Van Wees, B. J., Reuter, D., Wieck, A. D., ...
The spin degeneracy of the lowest subband that carries one-dimensional electron transport in quantum point contacts appears to be spontaneously lifted in zero magnetic field due to a phenomenon that...
Scaling properties of hyperon production in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2007)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
We present the scaling properties of Lambda, Xi, and Omega in midrapidity Au+Au collisions at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at root s(NN)=200 GeV. The yield of...
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
Measurements of two-particle correlations on transverse momentum p(t) for Au-Au collisions at root s(NN) = 130 GeV are presented. Significant large-momentum-scale correlations are observed for...
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
We present the first study of the energy dependence of pt angular correlations inferred from event-wisemean transversemomentum < p(t)> fluctuations in heavy ion collisions. We compare our...
CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance (2007)
Bayatian, G. L., Chatrchyan, S., Hmayakyan, G., Sirunyan, A. M., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., ...
CMS is a general purpose experiment, designed to study the physics of pp collisions at 14 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC). It currently involves more than 2000 physicists from more than 150...
Abelev, B. I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., ...
We determine rapidity asymmetry in the production of charged pions, protons, and antiprotons for large transverse momentum (p(T)) for d+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV. The rapidity asymmetry is...
Strange particle production in p+p collisions at root s=200 GeV (2007)
Abelev, B. I., Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., ...
We present strange particle spectra and yields measured at midrapidity in root s = 200 GeV proton-proton (p + p) collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We find that the...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We present STAR measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy parameter v(2) for pions, kaons, protons, Lambda,(Lambda) over bar,Xi+ (Xi) over bar, and Omega+ (Omega) over bar, along with v(4) for pions,...
Forward Lambda production and nuclear stopping power in d+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2007)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We report the measurement of Lambda and (Lambda) over bar yields and inverse slope parameters in d+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV at forward and backward rapidities (y=+/- 2.75), using data from...
Strangelet search in Au plus Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2007)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We have searched for strangelets in a triggered sample of 61 million central (top 4%) Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV near beam rapidities at the STAR solenoidal tracker detector at the BNL...
Global polarization measurement in Au plus Au collisions (2007)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
The system created in noncentral relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions possesses large orbital angular momentum. Because of spin-orbit coupling, particles produced in such a system could become...
Delta phi Delta eta correlations in central Au plus Au collisions at root S-NN = 200 GeV (2007)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
We report charged particle pair correlation analyses in the space of Delta phi (azimuth) and Delta eta (pseudorapidity), for central Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV in the STAR detector. The...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We report the first measurement of the opening angle distribution between pairs of jets produced in high-energy collisions of transversely polarized protons. The measurement probes (Sivers)...
Partonic flow and phi-meson production in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2007)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We present first measurements of the phi-meson elliptic flow (v(2)(p(T))) and high-statistics p(T) distributions for different centralities from root s(NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. In...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
The STAR collaboration at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) reports measurements of the inclusive yield of nonphotonic electrons, which arise dominantly from semileptonic decays of heavy...
Scaling properties of hyperon production in Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2007)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
We present the scaling properties of Lambda, Xi, and Omega in midrapidity Au+Au collisions at the Brookhaven National Laboratory Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at root s(NN)=200 GeV. The yield of...
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We study the energy dependense of the transverse momentum (PT) spectra for charged pions, protons and anti-protons for An + An collisions at root(NN)-N-s = 62.4 and 200 GeV. Data are presented at...
Electric potential distribution in nanoscale electroosmosis: from molecules to continuum (2007)
Electric potential distribution in nanoscale electroosmosis has been investigated using the nonequilibrium molecular dynamics ( NEMD), whose results are compared with the continuum based...
Similarity of electroosmotic flows in nanochannels (2007)
This paper investigates the similarity of electroosmotic flows in nanochannels numerically using the NEMD method and therefore analyzes the applicability of the embedding technique. The results...
A successful field test of a mobile and multilingual information service system COMPASS2008 (2007)
Uszkoreit, H., Xu, F., Liu, W., Steffen, J., Aslan, I., Liu, J., ...
We will describe a field test and its evaluation of a truly novel type of mobile computer programs that will assist foreign tourists in their communication with Chinese people. The software is an...
Ultrasonic inspection of austenitic and dissimilar welds (2007)
Bulavinov, A., Kröning, M., Liu, J., Walte, F., Reddy, K.M., Ribeiro, J.G.
Ultrasonic testing requires materials that are acoustically isotropic. The sound propagation is assumed to be non-dispersive and independent of its direction. Finegrained steel qualities meet these...
Baltazar-Cervantes, J. C., Sakurai, Y., Masuda, H., Feinauer, D., Liu, J., Ji, J., ...
As the energy costs have been increasing the more energy efficient measures have been promoted in the buildings sector, the reliability of energy consumption data has been attracting significant...
Jones, D. B. A., Bowman, K. W., Logan, J. A., Heald, C. L., Liu, J., Luo, M., ...
We conduct an inverse modeling analysis of measurements of atmospheric CO from the TES and MOPITT satellite instruments using the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model. This is the first...
Jones, D. B. A., Bowman, K. W., Logan, J. A., Heald, C. L., Liu, J., Luo, M., ...
We conduct an inverse modeling analysis of measurements of atmospheric CO from the TES and MOPITT satellite instruments using the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model. This is the first...
C. W. Tsao, L. Hromada, J. Liu, P. Kumar, D. L. Devoe
First published as an Advance Article on the web 7th March 2007
Flow-level stability of data networks with non-convex and time-varying rate regions (2007)
J. Liu, A. Proutière, Y. Yi, M. Chiang, H. V. Poor
In this paper we characterize flow-level stochastic stability for networks with non-convex or time-varying rate regions under resource allocation based on utility maximization. Similar to prior works...
Flow-level stability of data networks with non-convex and time-varying rate regions (2007)
J. Liu, A. Proutière, Y. Yi, M. Chiang, H. V. Poor
In this paper we characterize flow-level stochastic stability for networks with non-convex or time-varying rate regions under resource allocation based on utility maximization. Similar to prior works...
Flow-level stability of data networks with non-convex and time-varying rate regions (2007)
J. Liu, A. Proutière, Y. Yi, M. Chiang, H. V. Poor
In this paper we characterize flow-level stochastic stability for networks with non-convex or time-varying rate regions under resource allocation based on utility maximization. Similar to prior works...
Shapter, Joe, Losic, Dusan, Chou, Alison, Liu, J, Gooding, John, Hibbert, D
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Foster, K., Liu, J., Iannos, A.
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is acquiring airborne mission systems (AMS) that incorporate component-based and distributed computing systems in order to enhance its Network Centric Warfare (NCW)...
Tiggelman, M.P.J., Reimann, K., Klee, M., Schmitz, J., Hueting, R.J.E., Liu, J., ...
To analyze the intrinsic dielectric performance of planar high-density capacitors at radio frequencies (RF), the dielectric losses need to be distinguished from the resistive electrode losses. The...
Shapter, Joe, Losic, Dusan, Chou, Alison, Liu, J, Gooding, John, Hibbert, D
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K. W. Bowman, J. A. Logan, C. L. Heald, J. Liu, M. Luo, ...
We conduct an inverse modeling analysis of measurements of atmospheric CO from the TES and MOPITT satellite instruments using the GEOS-Chem global chemical transport model. This is the first...
Foster, K., Liu, J., Iannos, A.
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is acquiring airborne mission systems (AMS) that incorporate component-based and distributed computing systems in order to enhance its Network Centric Warfare (NCW)...
Sharafat, S., El-Awady, J., Liu, J., Diegele, E., Ghoniem, N.M.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 367-70(2007) S.1337-43
Abelev, BI, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Amonett, J, Anderson, BD, Anderson, M, ...
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Atmospheric correction models for InSAR measurements (2006)
Wu, Y., Li, Z., Liu, J., Xu, C.
Repeat-pass Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) provides a new tool to map global topography with metre-scale accuracy and tens of metres spatial resolution, and its advanced differential...
Evolution of SU(4) Transport Regimes in Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dots (2006)
Makarovski, A., Liu, J., Finkelstein, G.
We study the evolution of conductance regimes in carbon nanotubes with doubly degenerate orbitals (``shells'') by controlling the contact transparency within the same sample. For sufficiently open...
Chen, H., Tang, Z., Liu, J., Sun, K., Peters, M. C., ...
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Liu, J, Lou, B, Li, ZQ, Ye, X, Wu, MP, ...
Sphingomyelin synthase 1 (SMS1) and SMS2 are two isoforms of SMS, the last enzyme for sphingomyelin (SM) biosynthesis. To evaluate the role of SMS in vivo in terms of plasma lipoprotein metabolism,...
Liu, J, Duan, J. L., Toimil-Molares, E, Karim, S, Cornelius, T. W., Dobrev, D, ...
We report the electrochemical growth of gold nanowires with controlled dimensions and crystallinity. By systematically varying the deposition conditions, both polycrystalline and single-crystalline...
Transport of spin-polarized electrons in a magnetic superlattice (2006)
Liu, J., Deng, W., Xia, K., Zhang, C., Ma, Z.
We investigated the ballistic transport of two-dimensional electrons subjected to a periodically modulated magnetic field in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling of both the Rashba and the...
Microrheology Probes Length Scale Dependent Rheology (2006)
Liu, J., Gardel, M. L., Kroy, K., Frey, E., Hoffman, Brenton D, Crocker, John C, ...
We exploit the power of microrheology to measure the viscoelasticity of entangled F-actin solutions at different length scales from 1 to 100 µm over a wide frequency range. We compare the behavior...
Chang, C, Dong, RH, Miyazaki, A, Sadashita, N, Zhang, Y, Liu, J, ...
Acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) catalyzes the formation of cholesteryl esters from cholesterol and long-chain fatty-acyl-coenzyme A. At the single-cell level, ACAT serves as a regulator...
Valley splitting of Si/SiGe heterostructures in tilted magnetic fields (2006)
Lai, K., Lu, T. M., Pan, W., Tsui, D. C., Lyon, S., Liu, J., ...
We have investigated the valley splitting of two-dimensional electrons in high quality Si/Si$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$ heterostructures under tilted magnetic fields. For all the samples in our study, the valley...
Optimizing multicompression approaches to elasticity imaging (2006)
Du, Huini N, Liu, J, Pellot-Barakat, C, Insana, M F
Breast lesion visibility in static strain imaging ultimately is noise limited. When correlation and related techniques are applied to estimate local displacements between two echo frames recorded...
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
Measurements of two-particle correlations on angular difference variables eta(1)-eta(2) (pseudorapidity) and phi(1)-phi(2) (azimuth) are presented for all primary charged hadrons with transverse...
Low-frequency noise statistics for the breakdown characterization of ultrathin gate oxides (2006)
Butt, N. Z., Chang, A. M., Raza, H., Bashir, Rashid, Liu, J., Kwong, D. L.
We have investigated the statistics of low-frequency noise in the tunneling current of ultrathin oxides
Forward neutral pion production in p+p and d+Au collisions at root(S)(NN)=200 GeV (2006)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., ...
Measurements of the production of forward pi(0) mesons from p+p and d+Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV are reported. The p+p yield generally agrees with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD...
Multiplicity dependence of inclusive p(t) spectra from p-p collisions at root s=200 GeV (2006)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Anderson, M., ...
We report measurements of transverse momentum p(t) spectra for ten event multiplicity classes of p-p collisions at root s=200 GeV. By analyzing the multiplicity dependence we find that the spectrum...
Proton-Lambda correlations in central Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2006)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., ...
We report on p-Lambda, p-(Lambda) over bar, (p) over bar-Lambda, and (p) over bar-(Lambda) over bar correlation functions constructed in central Au-Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV by the STAR...
Proton-Lambda correlations in central Au+Au collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV (2006)
Adams, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Amonett, J., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., ...
We report on p-Lambda, p-(Lambda) over bar, (p) over bar-Lambda, and (p) over bar-(Lambda) over bar correlation functions constructed in central Au-Au collisions at root s(NN) = 200 GeV by the STAR...
Synthesis of a Potentially Bioactive, Hydroxyapatite-Nucleating Molecule (2006)
Bentley, P., Clarkson, B. H., Liu, J., Chen, H., Wood, D., Chang, S.
A human phosphophoryn (PP) cDNA was previously cloned from immature root apex total RNA in our laboratory. This cDNA comprises 2,364 bp, encoding 788 amino acids. More than 80% of the sequences are...
Linking Land-change science and policy: current lessons and future integration (2006)
Reid, R.S., Tomich, T.P., Xu, J., Geist, H.J., Mather, A., DeFries, R., ...
Back muscle transplantation model for ovarian allo- and xenografts (2006)
Soleimani, Reza, LIU, J, Heindryckx, Björn, Van Den Broecke, Rudy, De Sutter, Petra, Gerris, Jan, ...
Transport of spin-polarized electrons in a magnetic superlattice (2006)
Liu, J., Deng, W., Xia, K., Zhang, C., Ma, Z.
We investigated the ballistic transport of two-dimensional electrons subjected to a periodically modulated magnetic field in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling of both the Rashba and the...
Background. The main structures anterior to the trachea are frequently poorly visualized by trans-oesophageal echocardiography (TEE) because of the tracheal air column. We studied a new acoustic...
Korsunsky, AM, Vorster, WJJ, Zhang, SY, Dini, D, Latham, D, Golshan, M, ...
Tunneling magnetoresistance in devices based on epitaxial NiMnSb with uniaxial anisotropy (2005)
Liu, J., Girgis, E., Bach, P., Ruester, C., Gould, C., Schmidt, G., ...
We demonstrate tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) junctions based on a tri layer system consisting of an epitaxial NiMnSb, aluminum oxide and CoFe tri layer. The junctions show a tunnelling...
Persistent Orbital Degeneracy in Carbon Nanotubes (2005)
Makarovski, A., An, L., Liu, J., Finkelstein, G.
The quantum-mechanical orbitals in carbon nanotubes are doubly degenerate over a large number of states in the Coulomb blockade regime. We argue that this experimental observation indicates that...
Low frequency noise statistics for the breakdown characterization of ultra-thin gate oxides (2005)
Butt, N. Z., Chang, A. M., Raza, H., Bashir, R., Liu, J., Kwong, D. L.
We have investigated the statistics of low frequency noise in the tunneling current of ultrathin oxides (2.5nm-4nm) in metal oxide semiconductor capacitors as a function of the applied voltage...
Arvieux, J, Asaturyan, R, Averett, T, Bailey, S L, Batigne, G, ...
We have measured parity-violating asymmetries in elastic electron-proton scattering over the range of momentum transfers 0.12 < or =Q2 < or =1.0 GeV2. These asymmetries, arising from interference of...
Zhao, Zuoming M, Hul'ko, O, Kim, H J, Liu, J, Shi, B, Xie, Y H
InAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) were grown on Si (001) substrates via molecular beam epitaxy. The size distribution and density of InAs QDs grown under different conditions were studied using...
Effective electromechanical moduli of ferroelectric ceramics with fiber textures (2005)
In this letter, we report the predictions on the effective piezoelectric coefficients and electromechanical coupling factors of ferroelectric ceramics BaTiO 3 and Pb(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3)O 3-PbTiO 3 (PMN-PT)...
Integrating Wind Power in Electricity Grids : an Economic Analysis (2005)
As a renewable energy source, wind power is gaining popularity as a favoured alternative to fossil fuel, nuclear and hydro power generation. In Europe, countries are required to achieve 15% of their...
The map-based sequence of the rice genome (2005)
MATSUMOTO, T, WU, JZ, KANAMORI, H, KATAYOSE, Y, FUJISAWA, M, NAMIKI, N, ...
Richards, S, Liu, Y, Bettencourt, BR, Hradecky, P, Letovsky, S, Nielsen, R, ...
We have sequenced the genome of a second Drosophila species, Drosophila pseudoobscura, and compared this to the genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster, a primary model organism. Throughout...
Quantum Dot Single Electron/Hole Transistors UWB System Applications (2005)
N. Venkaragirish, R. Jhaveri, A. Tura, J. Woo, Session Chair, Albert Wang, ...
Vareiro, M. L. M., Liu, J., Knoll, W., Zak, K., Williams, D., Jenkins, A. T. A.
This paper describes the determination of limits of detection (LODs) of interactions between an antigen, human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), and antibodies, anti-alpha-hCG and anti-beta-hCG, using a...
Silicides for advanced CMOS devices (2005)
Kittl, Jorge, Van Dal, Mark, Chamirian, Oxana, Kmieciak, Malgorzata, ...
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