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USEFUL MEASURES OF COMPLEXITY: A MODEL OF ASSESSING DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY IN ENGINEERED SYSTEMS AND ENGINEERING PROJECTS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-12)
Many modern systems are very complex, a reality which can affect their safety and reliability of operations. Systems engineers need new ways to measure problem complexity. This research lays the groundwork for measuring ...
TECHNOLOGY TRUST: THE IMPACT OF ANTHROPOMORPHIC SYSTEM INFORMATION ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS USED IN HIGH-RISK APPLICATIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-03)
Autonomous systems provide the military with advanced capabilities permitting the execution of increasingly dangerous and difficult missions. A human in the loop is still required to decide how and when to deploy these ...
MEDIA EFFECTS ON CYBER INTRUSIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-03)
In this current hyperconnected era, many could argue that multifaced daily news events, arranged into univocal storylines, generate effects well beyond the media environment. Empirically speaking, most explorations of media ...
ADVERSARIAL MACHINE LEARNING FOR PHYSICAL-LAYER AUTHENTICATION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
In this dissertation, we propose the use of adversarial machine learning to characterize wireless radio transmitters for the purpose of physical-layer authentication. Wireless communication systems are quickly evolving to ...
DESIGN OF A TAILORABLE PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY FRAMEWORK INCLUDING ALTERNATING SPACE-TIME CODING AND GRAY CODE HOPPING
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
A physical layer security framework is developed that may be tailored to a particular wireless communications link. Alternating space-time coding and Gray code hopping techniques are presented that may be implemented ...
THE CO-EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN INSURGENT WARFARE
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-09)
Extant literature has addressed empirical insurgent networks inadequately, insufficiently accounting for insurgent warfare's unique characteristics. Specifically, existing structural studies of insurgencies—those seeking ...
CONCEPTUALIZING KNOWLEDGE FRICTION
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-09)
This dissertation explores knowledge friction. The concept knowledge flow is defined by many researchers as the transfer of actionable information between individuals, groups and organizations. Knowledge Flow Theory (KFT) ...
EXTRAPOLATED MULTIRATE METHODS FOR HYPERBOLIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-09)
Within atmospheric earth system models, accurately resolving the various physical multi-scale processes is critical. For example, the single-layered shallow water equations are widely used to model ocean waves in shallow ...
EVALUATION OF THE COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT PHASE 6 (CMIP6) HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE ARCTIC SEA ICE: PROGRESS, LIMITATIONS AND THEIR CAUSES
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-09)
A decline of the Arctic sea ice in response to a warming climate is assessed in the historical sea ice simulations from state-of-the-art global climate models participating in Phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison ...
WILDFIRE-FAVORABLE OFFSHORE WIND EVENTS IN CALIFORNIA: GLOBAL-SCALE CLIMATE TELECONNECTIONS TO EXTREME WEATHER AND POTENTIAL SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL PREDICTABILITY
(Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School, 2021-06)
Wildfire-favorable offshore wind events (OWEs) in California, such as Santa Ana (SA) and Diablo wind events, are extreme weather events that can contribute to severe societal impacts. We analyzed the large-scale weather ...
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