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B. Fox, K. Brancato, B. Alkire, Guidelines and Metrics for Assessing Space System Cost Estimates, RAND Corporation Document TR-418-AF, Santa Monica, CA, 2008.

(U) E. Ghashghai, J. Kvitky, B. Alkire et al, An Evaulation of Satellite Communications to Support Military Operations and a Roadmap to Improve their Overall Robustness, RAND Corporation Document TR-457-AF, Santa Monica, CA, 2007, SECRET.

B. Alkire, J. Birkler et al, Littoral Combat Ships: Relating Performance to Mission Package Inventories, Homeports, and Installation Sites, RAND Corporation Document MG-528-NAVY, Santa Monica, CA, 2007.

J. Schank, G. Smith, J. Birkler, B. Alkire et al, Acquisition and Competition Strategy Options for the DD(X) : the U.S. Navy's 21st Century Destroyer, RAND Corporation Document MG-259/1, Santa Monica, CA, 2006.

J. Schank, G. Smith, B. Alkire et al, Modernizing the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Fleet: Accelerating CVN 21 Production Versus Mid-Life Refueling, RAND Corporation Document MG-289-NAVY, Santa Monica, CA, 2005.

J. Birkler, B. Alkire et al, The U.S. Coast Guards Deepwater Force Modernization Plan: Can It Be Accelerated? Will It Meet Changing Security Needs?, RAND Corporation Document MG-114-USCG, Santa Monica, CA, 2004.

B. Alkire (L. Vandenberghe, Advisor). Convex Optimization Problems Involving Autocorrelation Sequences. Ph.D. thesis, University of California Los Angeles, 2003.

 

B. Alkire and L. Vandenberghe. Convex Optimization Problems Involving Finite Autocorrelation Sequences. Mathematical Programming, Series A, 93:331-359, 2002.

 

B. Alkire and L. Vandenberghe. Interior-point Methods in Filter Design. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, volume VI, pages SPTM-11, 2001.

 

B. Alkire and L. Vandenberghe. Handling Nonnegative Constraints in Spectral Estimation. In Proceedings of the 34th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Computers, Speech and Signal Processing, pages 202-206, 2000.

 

B. Alkire. Parallel Computation of Hessian Matrices under Windows NT. In Applications of Advanced Architecture Computers, Newsjournal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), December 1998. Download: (ps and pdf)

 

B. Alkire. Peak-constrained Least-squares Optimization of Analog Filters using Nonlinear Programming. Masters thesis, California State University, Northridge, 1997. Download: postscript version

 

B. Alkire, Sugar: A Computer Program For Analyzing Passive Filter Circuits, Internal Report of the DSP Lab at California State University, Northridge, 1996. Downloads: Report (PDF), Binaries (32-bit x86 Windows), Source Code. The binaries and source code use Install Shield installers, run setup.exe to install them after download.

 

B. Alkire. Fast LLT Factorization of Augmented Positive Definite Matrices. In Proceedings of the California State University Student Research Competition, (second-place in the graduate division of engineering), Stanislaus, California, 1996.