NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

such as ADSL and FTTH, we are now about to enter a ubiquitous communications age in which it will be possible to exchange
information with anyone at anytime, anywhere. As a result, information and communications services are becoming an
essential element of our daily societal infrastructure. Today, information and communications technology, involving, for
example, fixed and mobile phones, Internet search and information exchange, and electronic payment, is already deeply woven
into society, mirroring the historical integration of electricity, water and sewerage, gas, and public transport into our daily lives.
Unfortunately, as a result of this integration, computer viruses and other malicious data operations are now capable of breaking
into PCs and databases and causing significant disruptions. Given the increasing scale of cyber attacks, wide-area information
network infrastructures are growing more vulnerable.
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Information Systems; Security; Data Processing; Internets; Wide Area Networks
20060002203 Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA, USA
Preparing PNNL Reports with LaTeX
Waichler, S. R.; Jun. 2005; 60 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): DE2005-15016481; PNNL-15197; No Copyright; Avail.: National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
LaTeX is a mature document preparation system that is the standard in many scientific and academic workplaces. It has
been used extensively by scattered individuals and research groups within PNNL for years, but until now there have been no
centralized or lab-focused resources to help authors and editors. PNNL authors and editors can produce correctly formatted
PNNL or PNWD reports using the LaTeX document preparation system and the available template files. In LaTeX, document
content is maintained separately from document structure for the most part. This means that the author can easily produce the
same content in different formats and, more importantly, can focus on the content and write it in a plain text file that doesn’t
go awry, is easily transferable, and won’t become obsolete due to software changes. LaTeX produces the finest print quality
output; its typesetting is noticeably better than that of MS Word. This is particularly true for mathematics, tables, and other
types of special text. Other benefits of LaTeX: easy handling of large numbers of figures and tables; automatic and error-free
captioning, citation, cross-referencing, hyperlinking, and indexing; excellent published and online documentation; free or
low-cost distributions for Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac OS X. This document serves two purposes: (1) it provides instructions
to produce reports formatted to PNNL requirements using LaTeX, and (2) the document itself is in the form of a PNNL report,
providing examples of many solved formatting challenges. Authors can use this document or its skeleton version (with
formatting examples removed) as the starting point for their own reports.
NTIS
Documentation; Format; Unix (Operating System); Texts
20060002403 Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA USA
TREC-6 Interactive Track Report. Part 1: Experimental Procedure and Initial Results
Byrd, Don; Swan, Russell; Allan, James; Jan. 1, 2005; 34 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): AD-A440416; No Copyright; Avail.: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
The TREC-6 Interactive Track concentrated on Aspect-Oriented Retrieval: finding at least one document that covers each
aspect of relevance to a given topic as opposed to the usual information-retrieval task of simply finding documents containing
as much information as possible about the topic. For this track, we at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval of the
University of Massachusetts designed and ran our first-ever user study.
DTIC
Information Retrieval; Data Processing
20060002455 Duke Univ., Durham, NC USA
Sensor Modeling and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Garg, Devendra P.; Kumar, Manish; Aug. 26, 2005; 19 pp.; In English
Contract(s)/Grant(s): W911NF-04-1-0434
Report No.(s): AD-A440553; RAMA-ARO-101; ARO-47513.1-C1-11; No Copyright; Avail.: Defense Technical Information
Center (DTIC)
This research report presents a novel strategy to develop a sensor model based on a probabilistic approach that would
accurately provide information about individual sensor’s uncertainties and limitations. The strategy also establishes the
dependence of sensor’s uncertainties on some of environmental parameters or parameters of any feature extraction algorithm
used in estimation based on sensor’s outputs. The approach makes use of a neural network that is trained with the help of an
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