This is the last part of an analysis of the law formulated by Donald J. Urquhart in respect to the use of scientific and technical (sci/tech) journals through either interlibrary loan or central document delivery. The first part discussed the genesis of this law as well as its statistical bases; the second dealt with the implications of the law for the development and management of the sci/tech...

The Concept and Requirements Exploration process used at Virginia Tech is based on a Multi-Objective Optimization approach that explores the design space to produce a NonDominated set of ship design solutions ranked objectively by Cost, Risk, and Effectiveness. Prior research and effort has also been made to leverage the validation and verification of the U.S. Navy’s ship synthesis design tool,...

The emergence of microreactor technology has helped to drive supporting nuclear materials qualification and acceptance processes. One essential component in these small reactors is a solid moderator, which typically consists metal hydride cladding. While the behavior performance metal-hydride moderators go back early advanced reactor development for nuclear-powered aviation space propulsion, th...

Classification permeates us: our being and our world. This paper seeks to extend the information systems literature on classification by suggesting classification as a quest, involving man, in a process comprised of both finding and producing truth. Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s etymological enquiry, classification is reinterpreted as a dynamic movement towards order. The essence of technology ...

This position paper discusses how the techniques and building blocks in use at the Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Lab could be used to construct an autonomous vacuum cleaner. Previous research at Georgia Tech using the Autonomous Robot Architecture (AURA)[2, has demonstrated robust operation in dynamic and partially modeled environments[3, 12]. Although much of this work has been deployed and tested...