Submitted by Peter Beling
SIEDS 2003 General co-Chair

The 2003 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS 2003) was held April 24-25, 2003 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. SIEDS is singular among major professional conferences in its intent to showcase industry-sponsored student design projects in systems and information engineering.

In this our second year under the sponsorship the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, SIEDS 2003 proudly boasted a record number of contributors, participants, clients, and sponsors. The forty-eight papers included in the Proceedings present research and applications which cover the breadth of our discipline. Papers were organized into thirteen sessions, structured as five parallel tracks. Session themes encompassed Data Mining, Systems Engineering Applications, Infrastructure Protection and Security, Process Design, XML and Web Applications, with almost all themes spanning multiple sessions.

Authors represented eleven institutions of higher education internationally, including École Centrale de Lillee (France), University College Dublin (Ireland), University of Ulster (Londonderry and Coleraine, Ireland), Hong Kong Polytechnic (Hong Kong), Southwest Jiaotong University (China), the United States Military Academy at West Point, the University of South Florida, Old Dominion University, George Mason University, as well as the Departments of Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia.

Student work presented at the symposium sponsored by a wide range of companies and government agencies, including the Aerospace Corporation; the Atlantic Research Corporation; CNS, Inc.; the Defense Group, Inc.; Fair, Isaac and Company; Framatome ANP, Inc.; Mulkerin Associates, Inc.; Lockheed Martin Distribution Technologies, Inc.; Perot Systems; the Iran Telecom Research Center; MITRE CAASD; the NASA Ames Research Center; the National Institute of Justice; National Science Foundation; the Virginia Department of Transportation; and the Virginia Transportation Research Council.

Schedule and Abstract Book

Best Paper Awards

Data Mining Track (Sponsored by Appian, Inc.)

THE USE OF DATA MINING IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INCIDENT REPORT RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, Doireann Cassidy, Joe Carthy, Anne Drummond, John Dunnion, and John Sheppard, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin

XML and Web Applications Track (Sponsored by Software AG)

IMPROVING GRASP: A GEOSPATIAL REPOSITORY FOR ANALYSIS AND SAFETY PLANNING, Christine Barnett, Lindsay Costello, Andrew Herbert, Leigh Anne Williams, Donald Brown, Jason Dalton, SIE, UVA; Ronald Wilson, National Institute of Justice

Systems Engineering Applications Track

SOLDIER TACTICAL MISSION SYSTEM COMBAT EFFECTIVENESS, Tawofik Ghazal, Romain Morley, Emiko Terry, Randall Klingaman, Charles W. Hall, Bre Millard, Kevin Lynch, Michael Parks, Department of Systems Engineering, The United States Military Academy

Infrastructure Protection and Security Track (Sponsored by Lockheed Martin, Inc.)

SCREENING NEEDS FOR ROADWAY LIGHTING BY EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT AND SITE-PARAMETERS, Raynelle L. Deans, Andrew R. Miller,Jennifer K. Murrill, James R. Sanders, Thomas C. Turley, James H. Lambert, SIE, UVA;Travis A. Bridewell, Benjamin H. Cottrell, Virginia Transportation Research Council and Virginia Department of Transportation

Process Design Track (Sponsored by Veridian, Inc.)

PROCESS FLOW SIMULATION FOR THE FABRICATION OF COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLY SUBCOMPONENTS, Mohammed Atia, Matthew Jones, Richard McIntyre, Ladan Pazouhandeh, Maya Siriwardana, Barbara Tawney, and Kevin Weinstein, SIE, UVA Michael Morrell and Jeffery Austin, Framatome ANP, Inc.