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Increasing Fairness and Efficiency with Distance-Based Ground Delay Programs
Researcher: Michael Ball
A distance-based ground delay program has the potential to reduce flight arrival delays in the U.S.
An Optimization Model for Mitigating Exemption Bias in Air Traffic Ground Delay Programs
Researcher: Michael Ball
Researchers created an optimization model that increases the fairness of ground delays among air carriers.
Analysis of Demand Uncertainty Effects in Ground Delay Programs
Researcher: Michael Ball
Optimization and simulation models have been developed to incorporate uncertainty in demand into ground delay programs.
Micro air vehicles with flapping wings
Researcher:S.K. Gupta
New technology makes possible a working ornithopter micro air vehicle that can flap and fold its wings like a real bird.
Cell-based sensors
Researchers: Pamela Abshire, Elisabeth Smela, Ben Shapiro
New sensors take advantage of the sensory capabilities of biological cells. Collaboration across engineering disciplines makes cell-based sensors on a chip possible.
Digital Fingerprinting for Multimedia Data
Researchers: Min Wu and Ray Liu
It is important that digital content is used for its intended purpose in commercial and military operations. Digital fingerprinting is a solution for tracking and identifying those involved in unauthorized redistribution of multimedia content.
Ferret: Automated Checking for Windows Host Vulnerabilities
Researcher: Michel Cukier
Ferret is a Microsoft Windows software package that checks for a wide variety of vulnerabilities on the host machine. This toolset is open source, modular and easily extensible by developers.
Quantifying Computer Security
Researcher: Michel Cukier
Traditional approaches to computer network security validation have not been quantitative. Dr. Cukier and his research group designed a testbed that would quantify the behavior of attackers, specifically estimating the correlation between a scan and an attack. The results proved the "conventional wisdom" was lacking on such matters.
Producer-Archive Workflow Network (PAWN)
Researcher: Joseph Jájá
This research is at the forefront of helping the National Archives and Records Administration preserve federal records. Producer–Archive Workflow Network (PAWN) software will enable agencies to submit their records remotely, securely, easily and with the assurance that it is transmitted correctly.
OASYS: Opinion Analysis System
Researcher: V.S. Subrahmanian
OASYS is a software package that can automatically and quickly extract specific information about violent incidents from thousands of news reports. The information can be used to develop rules about adversarial behavior and offer a probability estimate that a particular action might happen.
Electrostatic Nanocapacitor
Researcher: Gary Rubloff
Newly developed nanostructures exploit unique combinations of materials, processes and structures to optimize both energy and power density, dramatically increasing the energy storage density of electrostatic capacitors.
Hierarchical Clustering Explorer for Multidimensional Clustering and Feature Exploration
Researcher: Ben Shneiderman
This software gives users more control over data analysis processes and enables more interactions with analysis results through interactive visual techniques. Users are able to perform exploratory data analysis, establish meaningful hypotheses and verify results.
TimeSearcher: Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data
Researcher: Ben Shneiderman
TimeSearcher is an environment for interactive querying and exploration of time-series data.
Queries are built using “timeboxes,” powerful
graphical metaphor widgets that can be used in direct manipulation Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to specify query constraints on time series data sets.
Treemaps: Space-Constrained Visualizations of Hierarchies
Researcher: Ben Shneiderman
Treemaps are a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical collections of quantitative data. It gives users the ability to see tens of thousands of pieces of data in a fixed space and discover patterns, clusters and outliers.
Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web
Researcher: Mark Austin
Study of requirements engineering has given these researchers a better perspective on the tools and techniques that will be needed to develop a more efficient and cohesive system of web searching.
Decision Production Systems and Environmentally Responsible Product Development (PREMISE)
Researcher: Jeffery Herrmann
Working with Black & Decker, researchers are improving product development through a systems approach that makes development processes better.
Geometry Based Search Software
Researcher: S.K. Gupta
Manufacturers use CAD model parts and assemblies databases to help them estimate manufacturing costs and reuse designs. GBSS speeds the search process with the unique ability to search for objects using 3-dimensional models instead of 2-dimensional images.
3D Replication
Researcher: S.K. Gupta
It is possible to make 3D replicas inexpensively and quickly, using 3D imaging and computer-controlled milling machines.
Next Generation Molding Technologies
Researcher: S.K. Gupta
New molding technologies enable the manufacture of geometrically complex and multi-material objects.
Gary Rubloff (l) and Ray Adomaitis
with process sensing equipment
MDPSAS: Modulated Distributed Parameter System Analysis and Simulation Toolbox
Researcher: Ray Adomaitis
MDPSAS is a flexible and extensible MATLAB-based set of modular simulation tools that can solve a wide range of chemical process simulation problems using object-oriented programming techniques.
Process Sensing and Simulation for GaN-Based Semiconductor Electronics
Researchers: Ray Adomaitis and Gary Rubloff
An effective tool for gaining insight into the physical and chemical mechanisms responsible for across-wafer non-uniformity and wafer-to-wafer inconsistencies.
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Microsystem Platform for 'Lab on a Chip' Development
Researcher: Gary Rubloff
A micro research platform has been developed that could lead to a "lab on a chip" for testing new drugs and a new strategy for antibiotic therapy.
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intercranial Robot
Researcher: S.K. Gupta
The robot allows neurosurgeons to remove a brain tumor or mass while the patient is undergoing brain imaging.
Spinal Cord Regeneration
Researchers: Avis Cohen and Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Progress is being made for people suffering from paralyzing injuries. Dr. Avis Cohen and Dr. Ralph Etienne-Cummings are conducting research with lampreys, applying what they learn to microchips that could one day help those with spinal cord injuries regain movement. Their research also holds promise for reneneration of spinal cords in humans.
Microscale Pumps, Motors and Turbines
Researcher: Reza Ghodssi
Manufacturing and integrating reliable, robust micromachines using microball bearing technology. The tiny pumps, motors, and turbines hold promise for military, health care and first responders.
BioMEMS Devices for Patterning and Sensing Biomolecules
Researcher: Reza Ghodssi
Chitosan-based MEMS sensors are being developed to detect targeted substances in air and water.
MEMS-Based Gray-Scale Technology
Researcher: Reza Ghodssi
A technique called gray-scale lithography has proven to be a useful batch process for creating gradient height structures for miniature parts for MEMS.
III-V MEMS for Integrative Optical Microsystems
Researcher: Reza Ghodssi
Researchers have laid the foundation for complex InP-based optical microsystems through a simple process for realizing suspended and movable optical InP waveguides.
Power MEMS and Micro-Ball Bearing Technology
Researcher: Reza Ghodssi
Using gray-scale lithographic techniques and deep reactive ion etching, (DRIE) of silicon, researchers have demonstrated a functional micro-ball bearing system.
Automated micro and nanoscale assembly using optical tweezers
Researcher: S.K. Gupta
Automated assembly cells based on optical tweezers could make this technology viable for production processes.
Strong Formulations for Network Design Problems with Connectivity Requirements
Researcher: S. Raghavan
Researchers combined graph theory insights with robust modeling ideas for improved network design problem formulations. This provides a unifying framework for strengthening formulations for NDC problems and demonstrates the power of flow-based formulations for network design problems with connectivity requirements.
Automated Monitoring and Management of Hybrid Broadband Networks
Researcher: John Baras
Researchers have developed large-scale distributed systems for fault management belief networks, Markov decision processes and intelligent agents. They also have initiated the development of automated management of formation flying and satellite constellations.
Multipoint Communication Networks and Ad Hoc Networks
Researcher: John Baras
Researchers are designing efficient networks and high-quality protocols, such as routing, MAC, congestion and flow control and security. They are also devising efficient methods of data dissemination and reliable and secure multicast for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).
Broadband Communication Support for NASA
Researcher: Michael Hadjitheodosiou
ISR scientists are developing a quantitative, mathematical and statistical basis for analyzing changes to NASA communications network architectures.
The MicroChip Optera Project
Researchers: Timothy Horiuchi and Cynthia Moss
Studying the behavior and neurophysiology of bats aids in building miniature autonomous air vehicles with sonar sensors.
Optical Fiber Biosensors
Researcher: Christopher Davis
Researchers are making possible the production of much more sensitive optical fiber biosensors, furthering their potential in preventative health care.
Professor Christopher Davis
with optical equipment
Optical Wireless Systems
Researchers: Christopher Davis and Stuart Milner
This brief details four different projects in a research program that is improving the performance of line-of-sight optical communication links through the atmosphere along paths relatively close to the ground.
Ordered Task Decomposition for AI Planning Software
Researcher: Dana Nau
Theories, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI) planning software to aid human planners in project management, plan storage and retrieval, and automatic scheduling.
Improving Mass Vaccination Clinic Operations
Researcher: Jeffrey Herrmann
ISR researchers have demonstrated how using simulation models can help evaluate how changes to clinic design affect queuing, time in the system, and number of patients in the clinic. These models also can be extended to gain insight into staging areas, transporation and county-wide operations to offer the most efficient and effective system for mass vaccinations.
Improving Computer Chip Heat Distribution
Researcher: Ankur Srivastava; Prakash Narayan
A strategy for thermal data mining using on-chip temperature sensors that can provide runtime temperature information, improving the performance and reliability of multicore processors.
Coding Techniques for Broadband Wireless Communications
Researcher: K.J. Ray Liu
Coding techniques to better exploit the potential of multi-antenna OFDM systems. Winner of the 2005 University of Maryland Invention of the Year award in the information science category.
Visiting scholars general information
This program helps industry scientists visit ISR for extended periods of time, engaging in research with our faculty on projects of mutual interest.
The ISR-Honda Visiting Scientist Program
This highly successful program brings Honda engineers from Japan to ISR for 14 months of systems research, as well as immersion into the English language and American culture.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
This summer program attracts undergraduate students from across the country for hands-on experience in systems-related research. |
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