The winning paper describes a computationally efficient approach to detecting and localizing single and multiple moving targets in real time. "This paper presents an elegant and rigorous derivation of an approach to target tracking, said Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Steve Huffman, chairman of the Best Paper Awards Committee. "It is an excellent example of developing a processing algorithm founded on theoretical principles in a field where much of their prior work has been based on heuristics."
Bethel initially developed the PDF technique with a discrete implementation in the context of tracking underwater targets while supporting the Passive Tracking Algorithm (PTA) program at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. The 2010 paper first illustrates how the initial PDF approach can be extended to solve the measurement uncertainty-of-origin problem for single targets, and then presents a multiple-target solution based on interactive parallel single target detector-trackers. The results of a simulation that used five detector-trackers to find four targets in a high-clutter environment demonstrate the operation of the PDF technique. Four detector-trackers find the four targets, as indicated by high "target present" confidence measures. The fifth detector-tracker attempts to find a fifth (non-existent) target but correctly fails to do so, as indicated by a low "target present" confidence measure. The success of the PDF technique is due to a strict adherence to a Bayesian approach.
The 2010 competition recognized 44 additional papers with an Incentive Award, while two short papers received a Communications Award:
Aberdeen, John, Samuel Bayer, Reyyan Yeniterzi, Ben Wellner, Cheryl Clark, David Hanauer, Bradley Malin, and Lynette Hirschman, December 2010, "The MITRE Identification Scrubber Toolkit: Design, Training, and Assessment," International Journal of Medical Informatics, 79, 849859.
Aggarwal, Vaneet, A. Robert Calderbank, Gerald Gilbert, and Yaakov S. Weinstein, May 29, 2010, "Volume Thresholds for Quantum Fault Tolerance," Quantum Information Processing, 9, 541549.
Agresti, William W., William M. Evanco, and William M. Thomas, January 2010, "Models for Improving Software System Size Estimates during Development," Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 3, 110.
Argamon, Shlomo, Kevin J. Burns, and Shlomo Dubnov, editors, 2010, The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: Springer Verlag.
Best, Steven R., and Drayton L. Hanna, February 2010, "A Performance Comparison of Fundamental Small-Antenna Designs," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 52(1), 4770.
Bigbee, Anthony J., Jonathan A. Curtiss, Laurie S. Litwin, and Michael T. Harkin, 2010, "Models in Multi-Agency C2 Experiment Lifecycles: The Collaborative Experimentation Environment as a Case Study," International C2 Journal, 4(3).
Branting, L. Karl, 2010, "Information Theoretic Criteria for Community Detection," in Advances in Social Network Mining and Analysis, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5498, C.L. Giles, M. Smith, J. Yen, and H. Zhang, eds., New York: Springer, 114130.
Brodzik, Andrzej K., February 2010, "Rapid Sequence Homology Assessment by Subsampling the Genome Space Using Difference Sets," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 56(2), 756770.
Burns, Kevin J., 2010, "Strategic Style in Pared-Down Poker," in The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning, Shlomo Argamon, Kevin Burns, and Shlomo Dubnov, eds., Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: Springer Verlag, 247289.
Burns, Kevin J., and Mark T. Maybury, 2010, "The Future of Style," in The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning, Shlomo Argamon, Kevin Burns, and Shlomo Dubnov, eds., Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London, New York: Springer Verlag, 317332.
Cane, Sheila, Richard McCarthy, and Leila Halawi, Spring 2010, "Ready for Battle? A Phenomenological Study of Military Simulation Systems," Journal of Computer Information Systems, 50(3), 3340.
Chang, Wenling, Takako Takeda, Prabhu Raman, and Dmitri Klimov, June 2010, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Anti-Aggregation Effect of Ibuprofen," Biophysical Journal, 98(11), 26622670.
Chapman, Adriane, and H. V. Jagadish, April 16, 2010, "Understanding Provenance Black Boxes," Distributed and Parallel Databases, 27(2), 139167.
Cramer, Michael R., Albert Herndon, Jr., Daniela Steinbach, and Ralf H. Mayer, October 2010, "Modern Aircraft Flight Management Systems," in Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, Richard Blockley and Wei Shyy, eds., New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Daaboul, G.G., A. Yurt, X. Zhang, Grace M. Hwang, B.B. Goldberg, and M.S. Ünlü, October 21, 2010, "High-Throughput Detection and Sizing of Individual Low-Index Nanoparticles and Viruses for Pathogen Identification," Nano Letters, 2010(10), 47274731.
Drury, Jill L., Emily K. Beaton, Lindsley G. Boiney, Michael O. Duncan, Robin A. GreenPope, Maurice D. Howland, and Gary L. Klein, 2009, "Collaboration Research for Crisis Management Teams," Foundations and Trends in HumanComputer Interaction, 3(3), 139212.
Drury, Jill L., Mark Micire, and Holly A. Yanco, September/October 2010, "New Technology Applications in Hazardous Materials Operations," Journal of Emergency Management, 8(5), 5571.
Ellenbogen, James C., July 2010, "Capacitance Scaling Law for Diatomic Molecules and Prediction of Their Electron Detachment Energies," Physical Review A, 82, 012508-1012508-11.
Fairchild, Steven Z., Matthew W. Peterson, Adel Hamza, Chang-Guo Zhan, Douglas M. Cerasoli, and Wenling E. Chang, April 9, 2010, "Computational Characterization of How the VX Nerve Agent Binds Human Serum Paraoxonase 1," Journal of Molecular Modeling, 17, 97109.
Gawron, Valerie J., Grant R. McMillan, and Randall E. Bailey, 2010, "The Effects of Time Delay and Physical Motion on Manual Flight Control: An In-Flight and Ground-Based Simulation Experiment," International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 20(3), 221248.
Gotski, Kenneth A., and Susan K. Land, October 2010, "From Legacy to Enterprise: Enterprise Systems Engineering in the Reluctant Organization," IEEE Ready Notes, IEEE Computer Society Press.
Hoffman, Joe, Rich DeVivo, and John J. Mayo III, December 2010. "Separation Assurance in High-Density Airspace," in Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, Richard Blockley and Wei Shyy, eds., New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Janssen, Terry, Leo J. Obrst, and Werner Ceusters, 2010, "Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, and Intelligence," in Leo J. Obrst, Terry Janssen, and Werner Ceusters, eds., Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Volume 213, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
Keyes, Brenden, Mark Micire, Jill L. Drury, and Holly A. Yanco, 2010, "Improving Human-Robot Interaction through Interface Evolution," in Human-Robot Interaction, Daisuke Chugo, ed., Vukovar, Croatia: Intech, 183202.
Lehner, Paul E., Charles Worrell, Chrissy T. Vu, Janet S. Mittel, Stephen Snyder, Eric Schulte, and Warren Greiff, September 2010, "An Application of Document Filtering in an Operational System", Information Processing and Management, 46(5), 611627.
Mani, Inderjeet, Christine Doran, David Harris, Janet Hitzeman, Robert Quimby, Justin Richer, Ben Wellner, Scott Mardis, and Seamus Clancy, October 2010, "SpatialML: Annotation Scheme, Resources, and Evaluation," in Language Resources and Evaluation, 44, Special Issue: LREC 2008: Selected Papers, N. Ide and N. Calzolari, eds.
Mariano, Adrian V., and John M. Grossmann, 23 November 2010, "Hyperspectral Material Identification on Radiance Data Using Single-Atmosphere or Multiple-Atmosphere Modeling," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 4, 043563.
Martin, Robert A., March/April 2010, "Systems Assurance as a Team Sport," CrossTalk, 23(2), 47.
Meister, David, and Valerie J. Gawron, 2010, "Measurement in Aviation Systems," in Handbook of Aviation Human Factors (2nd ed.), J.A. Wise, V.D. Hopkin, and D. J. Garland (eds.), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 3-13-15.
Mohtashemi, Mojdeh, and L. Masae Kawamura, January 22, 2010, "Empirical Evidence for Synchrony in the Evolution of TB Cases and HIV+ Contacts among the San Francisco Homeless," PloS ONE, 5(1), e8851-1e8851-11.
Mork, Peter S., Kenneth P. Smith, Barbara Blaustein, Chris Wolf, Ken Samuel, Keri Sarver, and Irina Vayndiner, July 2010, "Facilitating Discovery on the Private Web Using Dataset Digests," International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 5(3), 170183.
Obrst, Leo J., 2010, "Ontological Architectures," in TAO Theory and Applications of Ontology, Vol. 2: Computer Applications, Roberto Poli, Johanna Seibt, and Achilles Kameas, eds., Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, and New York: Springer-Verlag, 2766.
Obrst, Leo J., Terry Janssen, and Werner Ceusters, eds., 2010, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Volume 213, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
Obrst, Leo J., Werner Ceusters, and Terry Janssen, 2010, "Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, and Intelligence: Looking toward the Future," in Leo J. Obrst, Terry Janssen, and Werner Ceusters, eds., Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Volume 213, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
Obrst, Leo J., Suzette Stoutenburg, Dru McCandless, Deborah Nichols, Paul Franklin, Mike Prausa, and Richard Sward, 2010, "Ontologies for Rapid Integration of Heterogeneous Data for Command, Control, and Intelligence," in Leo J. Obrst, Terry Janssen, and Werner Ceusters, eds., Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Volume 213, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.
Poli, Roberto, and Leo J. Obrst, 2010, "The Interplay between Ontology as Categorical Analysis and Ontology as Technology," in TAO Theory and Applications of Ontology, Vol. 2: Computer Applications, Roberto Poli, Johanna Seibt, and Achilles Kameas, eds., Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, and New York: Springer-Verlag, 126.
Powers, Ellen J., Frank J. Stech, and Kevin J. Burns, 2010, "A Behavioral Model of Team Sensemaking," International C2 Journal, 4(1).
Refaei, M. Tamer, Luiz A. DaSilva, Mohamed Eltoweissy, and Tamer Nadeem, May 2010, "Adaptation of Reputation Management Systems to Dynamic Network Conditions in Ad hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Computers, 59(5), 707719.
Shin, Heekeun, Sarah E. O'Donnell, Petra Reinke, Nicola Feralis, A.K. Schmid, H. I Li, Anthony D. Novaco, L. W. Bruch, and Renee D. Diehl, 14 December 2010, "Floating Two-Dimensional Solid Monolayer of C60 on Graphite", Physical Review B, 82, 235427 111.
Stevens, Renee, 2010, Engineering Mega-Systems: The Challenge of Systems Engineering in the Information Age, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Takeda, Takako, Wenling Chang, Prabhu Raman, and Dmitri Klimov, June 15, 2010, "Binding of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs to Aβ Fibril," Proteins, 78, 28492860.
Weinstein, Yaakov S., September 27, 2010, "Entanglement Dynamics in Three-Qubit X States," Physical Review A, 82, 032326-1 032326-7.
Weinstein, Yaakov S., and Gerald Gilbert, July 2, 2010, "Storing Small Photonic Cluster States in a Dephasing Environment," Journal of Modern Optics, 57(19), 19611964.
Yeniterzi, Rayyan, John Aberdeen, Samuel Bayer, Ben Wellner, Lynette Hirschman, and Bradley Malin, March 2010, "Effects of Personal Identifier Resynthesis on Clinical Text De-identification," Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 17, 159168.
