Institute Articles and Reports

Peter Denning

“The Social Life of Innovation.” ACM Communications 47, 4 (Apr 2004), 15-19.

“The Field of Programmers Myth.” ACM Communications 47, 7 (Jul 2004), 15-20.

“Network Laws.” ACM Communications 47, 11 (Nov 2004), 15-20.

“The Somatic Engineer.” Being Human at Work. (Richard Strozzi Heckler PhD, ed.), North Atlantic Books (2004).

“The Design of reliable operating systems.” In Computer Systems: Theory, Technology, and Applications. In memory of Roger Needham. (A. Herbert and K. Spärck-Jones, eds.). Springer-Verlag (2004), 79-84.

“Is Computer Science Science?” ACM Communications 48, 4 (Apr 2005), 27-31.

“The Principle of Locality.” ACM Communications 48, 7 (Jul 2005), 19-24.

“Recentering Computer Science” (with Andrew McGettrick). ACM Communications 48, 11 (Nov 2005), 15-19.

“Operational Analysis.” In Perspectives on Performance Modeling (E. Gelenbe, Ed.). (Dec 2005).

Denning, P, J Horning, D Parnas, and L Weinstein. “Wikipedia Risks.” (with J Horning, D Parnas, and L Weinstein). Inside Risks Column, ACM Communications 48 (Dec 2005).

Submitted

“Post Autistic Software.” (with John Hiles). Submitted to Context Aware Software conference.

“Transformational Events.” (with John Hiles). Submitted to Pedagogic Patterns Education journal.

To Appear

“Innovation as language action.” (with Robert Dunham) ACM Communications 49 (May 2006), Special section on language-action.

“Coordination.” (with Tom Malone) In Interaction Computation. (D. Goldin, P. Wegner, Eds.). To appear.

“The Locality Principle.” In Festschrift honoring Erol Gelenbe (2006). (Javier Barria, Ed.) To appear.

Don Gaver

Refereed Journal Paper:

K. D. Glazebrook, C. Kirkbride, H. M. Mitchell, D. P. Gaver and P. A. Jacobs, “Index policies for shooting problems,” Accepted for publication in Operations Research.

Book Chapters:

Gaver, D. P., Jacobs, P. A. and Seglie, E. A. “Dynamic management of systems undergoing evolutionary acquisition”, Chapter 14 in Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Reliability (ed. A. Wilson, N. Limnios, S. Keller-McNulty and Y. Armijo) Series on Quality, Reliability and Engineering Statistics, Vol. 10, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2005, pp191-204.

Gaver D.P. , P. A. Jacobs, and S. Pilnick “On minefield transit by detection, avoidance and demining,” Chapter 16.3 in Applications of Technology to Demining, an Anthology of Scientific Papers 1995-2005, Part 3 Naval Mine Countermeasures (ed. A. M. Bottoms and C. Scandrett, Society for Countermine Technology, Monterey CA) 2005.

Gaver, D. P. and P. A. Jacobs, “Stochastic properties of peer-to-peer communication architecture in a military setting,” To appear as Chapter 12 in Design and Operations of Communication Networks: A Review of Wired and Wireless Modelling and Management Challenges (ed. J. Barria), Imperial College Press, London, UK 2006.

Conference Papers:

Gaver, D. P., P.A. Jacobs, K.D. Glazebrook, and E. Seglie, “Reliability growth through block upgrade,” Advances in Safety and Reliability, K. Kolowrocki (ed.), Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK (2005), pp. 653-659.

Gaver, D. P., P.A. Jacobs, and E. Seglie, “Modern military evolutionary acquisition and the ramifications of RAMS,” Naval Postgraduate School Technical Report, NPS-OR-05-006.

Gaver, D. P. and P.A. Jacobs, “Stochastic properties of peer-to-peer communication architecture in a military setting,” Naval Postgraduate School Technical Report, NPS-OR-05-007, Aug. 2005.

Gaver, D.P. , P. A. Jacobs, and E. Seglie, “Stochastic models for reliability risks in evolutionary spiral acquisition,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Mathematical Methods in Reliability, Santa Fe, NM, June 21-25, 2004.

D. P. Gaver, P. A. Jacobs, and E. Seglie, “Modern military evolutionary acquisition and the ramifications of RAMS,” Proceedings of the 27th European Safety Reliability and Data Association Workshop, Glasgow, Scotland, Nov 15-17, 2004.

D. P. Gaver, P. A. Jacobs. and C-C Kao, “Dynamic adaptive epidemic models for peer-to-peer network access,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems- Modeling and Analysis, July 22-25, 2004, pp155-163.

D. P. Gaver, P. A. Jacobs, and S. Pilnick, “On minefield transit by detection avoidance and demining,” Proceedings, Third Joint Australian and American Conference on Mine Countermeasures and Demining, February 9-11 2004.

Technical Reports:

D. P. Gaver, P. A. Jacobs, G. Bullock, and R. Simons, “ Models for transmission and control of bioterrorist epidemics,” Naval Postgraduate School Technical Report , NPS-OR-04-006, July 2004.

K. D. Glazebrook, H. M. Mitchell, D. P. Gaver and P. A. Jacobs, “The analysis of shooting problems via generalized bandits,” Naval Postgraduate School Technical Report, NPS-OR-04-005, June 2004.

Conference Presentations:

Gaver, D. P., P.A. Jacobs, K.D. Glazebrook, and E.Seglie. “Reliability growth through block upgrade,” Invited paper, European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2005, Gdansk, Poland, June 27-30, 2005.

Gaver, D. P., P.A. Jacobs, K.D. Glazebrook, and E.Seglie.“A stochastic usage model for testing multi-stage systems,” Contributed paper, Eleventh U. S. Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Monterey CA Oct. 19-21, 2005.

Gaver, D. P., P. A. Jacobs. and E. Seglie, “Opportunities at the Statistics-Operations Research Interface”, Invited presentation, NSF Sponsored Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, Jan. 10-12, 2004.

D. P. Gaver and P. A. Jacobs “The uncertain time-critical tasking probability with long-tailed demand,” Invited presentation, CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Banff, Canada, May 16-19, 2004.

D. P. Gaver and P. A. Jacobs “Some operations research (&/or statistics and mathematical modeling) problems in homeland defence,” Seminar, Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ Feb 18, 2004 and Department of Engineering Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ Feb 16, 2004.

D. P. Gaver, P. A. Jacobs, and E. Seglie. “Probabilistic and statistical challenges in the design and operations of new (military) systems,” Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Ireland at Galway, Nov. 4, 2004.

D. P. Gaver, P. A. Jacobs, and E. Seglie, “Modern military evolutionary acquisition and reliability growth,” Invited presentation, National Academy of Sciences Workshop, Washington, DC, Dec 12-13, 2004.

Chris Gunderson

“Netcentric Warfare Looks Like Commercial E-Business. Just Ask Al Qaeda.” Defense Systems. http://www.defensesystems.com/news/daily-updates/44-1.html?topic=network-centric_warfare.

“Consortium Jump Starts Network-Centric Interoperability. Signals Connections. Sept. 1, 2005.

“Netcentric Rescue Networks lessons learned in the tsunami are improving technology for disaster response.” Military Information Technology. Sept 2005.