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Determining Mechanical Reliability of Brittle Materials

April 18, 2013
Author(s)
Stephen W. Freiman, Jeffrey Fong
The widespread existence of slow crack growth in most glasses and ceramics due to a stress-enhanced reaction between an external environment and strained bonds at a crack tip greatly complicates the challenge of assuring the reliability of components which

ACTS: A Combinatorial Test Generation Tool

March 22, 2013
Author(s)
Raghu N. Kacker
In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial test generation tool called Advanced Combinatorial Testing System (or ACTS). ACTS supports t-way combinatorial test generation with several advanced features such as mixed-strength test generation and constraint

An Input Space Modeling Methodology for Combinatorial Testing

March 22, 2013
Author(s)
Mehra N. Borazjany, Laleh Ghandehari, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
The input space of a system must be modeled before combinatorial testing can be applied to this system. The effectiveness of combinatorial testing to a large extent depends on the quality of the input space model. In this paper we introduce an input space

Applying Combinatorial Testing to the Siemens Suite

March 22, 2013
Author(s)
Laleh Ghandehari, Mehra N. Borazjany, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
Combinatorial testing has attracted a lot of attention from both industry and academia. A number of reports suggest that combinatorial testing can be effective for practical applications. However, there still seems to lack systematic, controlled studies on

Five Examples of Assessment and Expression of Measurement Uncertainty

February 12, 2013
Author(s)
Antonio M. Possolo
It is a long accepted tenet of scientific practice that every measurement result ought to include a statement of uncertainty associated with the measured value, and that such uncertainty should be propagated to derivative products. It is also widely

Class Numbers via 3-Isogenies and Elliptic Surfaces

November 6, 2012
Author(s)
Cam McLeman, Dustin Moody
We show that a character sum attached to a family of 3-isogenies defi ned on the fibers of a certain elliptic surface over Fp relates to the class number of the quadratic imaginary number field Q(\sqrtp}). In this sense, this provides a higher-dimensional

Reduction Formulae for Products of Theta Functions

November 6, 2012
Author(s)
Peter L. Walker
In four cases it is already known that the product of two distinct Jacobian theta functions having the same variable z and the same nome q is a multiple of a single Jacobian theta function, with the multiple independent of z. The main purpose of the

Definite integrals using orthogonality and integral transforms

October 19, 2012
Author(s)
Howard S. Cohl, Hans Volkmer
We obtain definite integrals for products of associated Legendre functions with Bessel functions, associated Legendre functions, and Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind using orthogonality and integral transforms.

The TriTon Transformation

August 27, 2012
Author(s)
Daniel C. Smith-Tone
Many new systems have been proposed which hide an easily invertible multivariate quadratic map in a larger structure by adding more variables and introducing some mixing of a random component to the structured system. While many systems which have been

Transient Convection-Diffusion Modelling of Peak Temperature in Orthogonal Cutting

August 19, 2012
Author(s)
Timothy J. Burns, Steven P. Mates, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric P. Whitenton, Debasis Basak
Numerical finite-difference simulations of a two-dimensional transient fast convection-slow diffusion model of the temperature field in orthogonal cutting, due to Tlusty, have been shown to provide better predictions of the peak temperature during

Variable Projection for Nonlinear Least Squares Problems

August 2, 2012
Author(s)
Dianne M. O'Leary, Bert W. Rust
The variable projection algorithm of Golub and Pereyra (1973) has proven to be quite valuable in the solution of nonlinear least squares problems in which a substantial number of the parameters are linear. Its advantages are efficiency and, more

Arithmetic Progressions on Huff Curves

July 23, 2012
Author(s)
Dustin Moody
We look at arithmetic progressions on elliptic curves known as Huff curves. By an arithmetic progression on an elliptic curve, we mean that either the x or y-coordinates of a sequence of rational points on the curve form an arithmetic progression. Previous

Evolutionary Construction of de Bruijn Sequences

July 20, 2012
Author(s)
Meltem Sonmez Turan
A binary de Bruijn sequence of order n is a cyclic sequence of period 2^n, in which each n-bit pattern appears exactly once. These sequences are commonly used in applications such as stream cipher design, pseudo-random number generation, 3-D pattern

Isomorphism Classes of Edwards Curves over Finite Fields

May 18, 2012
Author(s)
Reza Farashahi, Dustin Moody, Hongfeng Wu
Edwards curves are a new model for elliptic curves, which have attracted notice in cryptography. We give exact formulas for the number of F_q-isomorphism classes of Edwards curves and twisted Edwards curves. This answers a question recently asked by R

Combinatorial Testing of ACTS: A Case Study

April 21, 2012
Author(s)
Mehra N. Borazjany, Linbin Yu, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
In this paper we present a case study of applying combinatorial testing to test a combinatorial test generation tool called ACTS. The purpose of this study is two-fold. First, we want to gain experience and insights about how to apply combinatorial testing
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