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Miodrag Potkonjak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Forensic Engineering techniques for vlsi cad tools
Design Automation Conference, 2000Co-Authors: Darko Kirovski, David M Liu, Jennifer L Wong, Miodrag PotkonjakAbstract:The proliferation of the Internet has affected the business model of almost all semiconductor and VLSI CAD companies that rely on intellectual property (IP) as their main source of revenues. The fact that IP has become more accessible and easily transferable, has influenced the emergence of copyright infringement as one of the most common obstructions to e-commerce of IP. In this paper, we propose a generic Forensic Engineering technique that addresses a number of copyright infringement scenarios. Given a solution S P to a particular optimization problem instance P and a finite set of algorithms A applicable to P , the goal is to identify with a certain degree of confidence the algorithm A i which has been applied to P in order to obtain S P . We have applied Forensic analysis principles to two problem instances commonly encountered in VLSI CAD: graph coloring and boolean satisfiability. We have demonstrated that solutions produced by strategically different algorithms can be associated with their corresponding algorithms with high accuracy.
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DAC - Forensic Engineering techniques for VLSI CAD tools
Proceedings of the 37th conference on Design automation - DAC '00, 2000Co-Authors: Darko Kirovski, David M Liu, Jennifer L Wong, Miodrag PotkonjakAbstract:The proliferation of the Internet has affected the business model of almost all semiconductor and VLSI CAD companies that rely on intellectual property (IP) as their main source of revenues. The fact that IP has become more accessible and easily transferable, has influenced the emergence of copyright infringement as one of the most common obstructions to e-commerce of IP. In this paper, we propose a generic Forensic Engineering technique that addresses a number of copyright infringement scenarios. Given a solution S P to a particular optimization problem instance P and a finite set of algorithms A applicable to P , the goal is to identify with a certain degree of confidence the algorithm A i which has been applied to P in order to obtain S P . We have applied Forensic analysis principles to two problem instances commonly encountered in VLSI CAD: graph coloring and boolean satisfiability. We have demonstrated that solutions produced by strategically different algorithms can be associated with their corresponding algorithms with high accuracy.
Kenneth L. Carper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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International Forensic Engineering Congresses and Conferences
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 2013Co-Authors: Kenneth L. CarperAbstract:The schedule for significant international Forensic Engineering activities has been very busy the last 6months,with threemajor congresses and conferences occurring in three countries. Reports summarizing two of these events are included here: The 6th ASCE Forensic Engineering Congress, held in San Francisco October 31 to November 3, 2012 (report by AnthonyM. Dolhon) and the IF CRASC ’12 Congress, held in Pisa, Italy, November 15e17, 2012 (report by Norbert J. Delatte). By publication of this issue, a third major conference will be underway. The 5th ICE Forensic Engineering Conference: Informing the Future with Lessons from the Past, sponsored by the Institution of Civil Engineers, is scheduled to take place in London April 16e17, 2013. I will prepare a report on the London conference for publication in a future Editor’s Note.
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Awards: ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering
Forensic Engineering 2012, 2012Co-Authors: Kenneth L. CarperAbstract:The ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) has announced the recipients of the 2009 and 2010 Forensic Engineering Awards, planned for presentation at the Sixth Forensic Engineering Congress, in San Francisco, California, October 31-November 3, 2012. The Forensic Engineering Award recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions to the field of Forensic Engineering. The award is not necessarily given every year. There have been 13 recipients since the establishment of the award in 1989. Past recipients of the award are John P. Bachner (1990), Jack R. Janney (1991), Joseph S. Ward (1992), Lev Zetlin (1993), George F. Sowers (1994), Kenneth L. Carper (1997), Narbey Khachaturian (1998), John M. Hanson (1999), W. Gene Corley (2002), Paul F. Mlakar (2003), Lewis L. Zickel (2006), Howard F. Greenspan (2007) and Henry Petroski (2008).
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Forensic Engineering Education Workshops: A Review of Experiences in the U.S. and in Latin America
Forensic Engineering 2012, 2012Co-Authors: Norbert J. Delatte, Kenneth L. Carper, Paul A. Bosela, Hugo Landivar, Hugo Navarro, Oswald Rendon-herrero, Iglesia AlianzaAbstract:An ongoing activity of the Committee on Education of the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering is the development of workshops for civil Engineering faculty. The workshops are aimed at integrating lessons from failure case histories into undergraduate and graduate university education. These workshops have been successfully presented at seven locations throughout the United States to more than 100 college and university professors. The workshops encourage the use of Forensic case histories in existing courses by providing easily adapted case modules, visual aids, and proven teaching strategies. Recently, the project has been extended to the international arena, with presentations in the UK, China, India, and Latin America. This paper reviews the background, intent, and content of the Forensic Engineering education workshops, with a focus on the international activities. Included are specific comments regarding the Latin American experiences in Costa Rica and Ecuador.
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Forensic Engineering Awards
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 2012Co-Authors: Kenneth L. CarperAbstract:The ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) has announced the recipients of the 2009 and 2010 Forensic Engineering Awards, planned for presentation at the Sixth Forensic Engineering Congress in San Francisco, California, October 31–November 3, 2012. The Forensic Engineering Award recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions to the field of Forensic Engineering. The award is not necessarily given every year. There have been 13 recipients since the establishment of the award in 1989. Previous recipients of the award are John P. Bachner (1990), Jack R. Janney (1991), Joseph S.Ward (1992), LevZetlin (1993), George F. Sowers (1994), Kenneth L. Carper (1997), Narbey Khachaturian (1998), John M. Hanson (1999), W. Gene Corley (2002), Paul F. Mlakar (2003), Lewis L. Zickel (2006), Howard F. Greenspan (2007), and Henry Petroski (2008).
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ASCE Sixth Congress on Forensic Engineering
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 2012Co-Authors: Kenneth L. CarperAbstract:The Sixth Congress on Forensic Engineering will take place in San Francisco from October 31 to November 3, 2012. The three-day technical program is designed with four concurrent technical tracks, committee meetings, panel discussions, and workshops. More than 200 technical papers will be presented. The opening keynote speaker will be Raymond “Paul” Giroux, P.E., M.ASCE, who will present “The Building of the Golden Gate Bridge.” Giroux is chair of this year’s 75th anniversary celebration of the opening of the city’s signature bridge. The Forensic Engineering Congresses have been organized by the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) every 3 years since 1997. They are recognized internationally as a premier event for the Forensic civil Engineering community. This year’s location is particularly inviting because San Francisco is a major destination for tourism. In conjunction with the Congress, several tours are planned to enhance the Congress theme, “Gateway to a Safer Tomorrow.” These include a project tour of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, one of the largest construction projects currently under way in the United States; a tour of the historic and elegant base-isolated San Francisco City Hall building; an exclusive evening event at the California Academy of Sciences, including a tour of the innovative award-winning museum designed by Renzo Piano; and a postconference tour of California’s wine country. Several new editions of TCFE publications are expected to become available at the time of the Congress. The second edition of Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering—Structural, Foundation and Geoenvironmental is a product of the TCFE Education Committee. The TCFE Forensic Practices Committee will publish the second edition of Guidelines for Forensic Engineering Practice. A third publication, Guidelines for Failure Investigation, 2nd Ed., will be presented by the TCFE Forensic Investigation Committee. Authors will be available to discuss the content of these new publications. Opportunities will also be provided to attend TCFE committee meetings and to become committee members. Congress attendees are expected to include Forensic engineers, civil engineers, architects and architectural engineers, building owners and managers, attorneys, educators, and invited guests. Registrants will benefit from an exchange of practices and procedures, educational opportunities, dissemination of information, and opportunities for publishing and networking. Professional development credits will be available. For further information, visit the Congress website at www.asce .org/Forensiccongress.
Shen-en Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Forensic Engineering education reform
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic Engineering, 2013Co-Authors: Shen-en Chen, Rajaram JanardhanamAbstract:Forensic Engineering is a critical and unique discipline in the Engineering field. However, courses on Forensic Engineering are not widely offered and a complete Forensic Engineering curriculum is almost non-existent in the USA. Most existing Forensic Engineering courses are offered in a failure analysis studio format, where investigation techniques are taught, or as part of a Forensic practice lecture series where information about case studies is disseminated along with discussions on ethics and jurisprudential issues. Conventional wisdom suggests that due to the specialised nature of Forensic Engineering it should be offered in a postgraduate curriculum. However, citing lessons learned from other Forensic-related disciplines, this paper recommends that Forensic Engineering develop a broader base that includes system Engineering, inverse problem-solving and research methodology, and should be better integrated into a college curriculum that can include both graduate and undergraduate studies.
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The First Indo-US Forensic Engineering Workshop and Beyond
Forensic Engineering 2012, 2012Co-Authors: C. Natarajan, Shen-en Chen, Rajaram Janardhanam, A. R. Rajaram, Ryan SchmidtAbstract:The first Indo-US Forensic Engineering Workshop (INDUSFEW) was successfully completed (December 15 - 17, 2010) at the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirapalli (NITT), Tamil Nadu, India. Organized jointly by members of the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE), the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), and NITT, the Workshop included 23 technical presentations by both U. S. and Indian Forensic experts including several speakers from the Structural Engineering Research Center (SERC), Chennai. The Workshop signified the international collaboration between India and U.S. in the area of Forensic Engineering. The specific outcome of the INDUSFEW workshop is the establishment of a Forensic Engineering curriculum and the proposal for the Center of Excellence for Failure Analysis (CEFA) at the NITT. This paper reports on the specific outcomes from the Workshop and the progress of the CEFA development.
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Forensic Engineering 2012 : Gateway to a Safer Tomorrow
2012Co-Authors: Anthony M. Dolhon, Alicia Daz De Len, Michael J. Drerup, Joshua B. Kardon, Derrick S. Hancock, Shen-en ChenAbstract:Proceedings of the Sixth Congress on Forensic Engineering, held in San Francisco, California, October 31-November 3, 2012. Sponsored by the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of ASCE.
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Indo-U.S. Forensic Practices: Investigation Techniques and Technology
2010Co-Authors: Shen-en Chen, C. Natarajan, R. Janardhanam, Ryan SchmidtAbstract:Proceedings of the First Indo-U.S. Forensic Engineering Workshop, held in Tiruchirappalli, India, December 15-17, 2010. Organized by the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of ASCE; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (USA); Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India); Structural Engineering Research Council (India); ASCE (USA). This collection contains 13 papers exemplifying the international collaboration between India and the United States to improve the quality and safety of constructed facilities. Engineers around the world engage in Forensic Engineering, yet variations in the legal, educational, and professional licensure practices of individual countries pose a challenge to the exchange of information. Even though cultural and judicial frameworks can differ widely, the needs for professionalism and technical accuracy in Forensic Engineering investigations remains universal. These papers promote the exchange of technical information and case studies between engineers in the United States and India. Topics include: foundation Engineering; geotechnical Forensic Engineering; construction management education; structural failures; building codes; nondestructive testing technologies; remote sensing and information processing technologies.
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Forensic Engineering 2009 pathology of the built environment
2009Co-Authors: Shen-en Chen, Anthony M. Dolhon, Michael J. Drerup, Alicia Diaz E De Leon, Kevin M ParfittAbstract:Proceedings of the Fifth Forensic Engineering Congress, held in Washington, D.C., November 11-14, 2009. Sponsored by the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of ASCE. This collection contains 82 papers to help Forensic engineers develop practices and procedures to reduce the number of failures, disseminate information on failures, and provide guidelines for conducting failure investigations and for ethical conduct. These papers examine case studies, investigation approach and methodology, expert witnessing, ethics, standard of care, nondestructive evaluation, and education in Forensic Engineering.
Darko Kirovski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Forensic Engineering techniques for vlsi cad tools
Design Automation Conference, 2000Co-Authors: Darko Kirovski, David M Liu, Jennifer L Wong, Miodrag PotkonjakAbstract:The proliferation of the Internet has affected the business model of almost all semiconductor and VLSI CAD companies that rely on intellectual property (IP) as their main source of revenues. The fact that IP has become more accessible and easily transferable, has influenced the emergence of copyright infringement as one of the most common obstructions to e-commerce of IP. In this paper, we propose a generic Forensic Engineering technique that addresses a number of copyright infringement scenarios. Given a solution S P to a particular optimization problem instance P and a finite set of algorithms A applicable to P , the goal is to identify with a certain degree of confidence the algorithm A i which has been applied to P in order to obtain S P . We have applied Forensic analysis principles to two problem instances commonly encountered in VLSI CAD: graph coloring and boolean satisfiability. We have demonstrated that solutions produced by strategically different algorithms can be associated with their corresponding algorithms with high accuracy.
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DAC - Forensic Engineering techniques for VLSI CAD tools
Proceedings of the 37th conference on Design automation - DAC '00, 2000Co-Authors: Darko Kirovski, David M Liu, Jennifer L Wong, Miodrag PotkonjakAbstract:The proliferation of the Internet has affected the business model of almost all semiconductor and VLSI CAD companies that rely on intellectual property (IP) as their main source of revenues. The fact that IP has become more accessible and easily transferable, has influenced the emergence of copyright infringement as one of the most common obstructions to e-commerce of IP. In this paper, we propose a generic Forensic Engineering technique that addresses a number of copyright infringement scenarios. Given a solution S P to a particular optimization problem instance P and a finite set of algorithms A applicable to P , the goal is to identify with a certain degree of confidence the algorithm A i which has been applied to P in order to obtain S P . We have applied Forensic analysis principles to two problem instances commonly encountered in VLSI CAD: graph coloring and boolean satisfiability. We have demonstrated that solutions produced by strategically different algorithms can be associated with their corresponding algorithms with high accuracy.
Ryan Schmidt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The First Indo-US Forensic Engineering Workshop and Beyond
Forensic Engineering 2012, 2012Co-Authors: C. Natarajan, Shen-en Chen, Rajaram Janardhanam, A. R. Rajaram, Ryan SchmidtAbstract:The first Indo-US Forensic Engineering Workshop (INDUSFEW) was successfully completed (December 15 - 17, 2010) at the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirapalli (NITT), Tamil Nadu, India. Organized jointly by members of the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE), the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), and NITT, the Workshop included 23 technical presentations by both U. S. and Indian Forensic experts including several speakers from the Structural Engineering Research Center (SERC), Chennai. The Workshop signified the international collaboration between India and U.S. in the area of Forensic Engineering. The specific outcome of the INDUSFEW workshop is the establishment of a Forensic Engineering curriculum and the proposal for the Center of Excellence for Failure Analysis (CEFA) at the NITT. This paper reports on the specific outcomes from the Workshop and the progress of the CEFA development.
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Indo-U.S. Forensic Practices: Investigation Techniques and Technology
2010Co-Authors: Shen-en Chen, C. Natarajan, R. Janardhanam, Ryan SchmidtAbstract:Proceedings of the First Indo-U.S. Forensic Engineering Workshop, held in Tiruchirappalli, India, December 15-17, 2010. Organized by the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of ASCE; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (USA); Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India); Structural Engineering Research Council (India); ASCE (USA). This collection contains 13 papers exemplifying the international collaboration between India and the United States to improve the quality and safety of constructed facilities. Engineers around the world engage in Forensic Engineering, yet variations in the legal, educational, and professional licensure practices of individual countries pose a challenge to the exchange of information. Even though cultural and judicial frameworks can differ widely, the needs for professionalism and technical accuracy in Forensic Engineering investigations remains universal. These papers promote the exchange of technical information and case studies between engineers in the United States and India. Topics include: foundation Engineering; geotechnical Forensic Engineering; construction management education; structural failures; building codes; nondestructive testing technologies; remote sensing and information processing technologies.