Research & Technology

The research team at CIRCADIAN is actively involved in the scientific community and participates regularly in specialized scientific meetings. They also write and publish articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as technical reports and white papers for CIRCADIAN clients.

The following is a list of the major publications during the past years.

Sirois W, Dawson T, Moore-Ede M, Aguirre A, Trutschel U. Assessing Driver Fatigue as a Factor in Road Accidents. PROCEEDINGS of the Fourth International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design

Sirois W, Dawson T, Aguirre A, Davis B, Trutschel U. Evaluation of Fatigue Management Technologies Using Weighted Feature Matrix Method David J. Edwards (Caterpillar Inc.), PROCEEDINGS of the Fourth International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design

Sommer D, Golz M, Trutschel U. Feature Reduction of the EEG in the Spectral Domain; Proc Ann Conf Biomed Techn (BMT 2007), Aachen, Germany; Sept 2007; 2 pages on CD

Golz M, Sommer D, Chen M, Trutschel U, Mandic D. Feature Fusion for the Detection of Microsleep Events, The Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Vol 49, Num 2, pp. 329-342, ISSN 0922-5773, Springer, Netherlands, July 2007 (ID# 61)

Vela-Bueno A, Olavarrieta-Bernardino S, Fernandez-Mendoza J, Aguirre-Berrocal A. Melatonin, sleep and sleep disorders. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 303-312. 2007.

Moore-Ede M. Consensus between circadian sleep experts and truck drivers on the impact of 2005 U.S. federal hours of service split-sleep and 14-hour clock regulations on truck driver sleep and alertness. Circadian International, Inc. 2007

Trutschel U, Sommer D, Aguirre A, Dawson T, Sirois B. Alertness Assessment using Data Fusion and Neuroinformatic Methods. 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2006), Bournemouth, UK, October 2006, (ID# 55)

Sirois B, Trutschel U, Golz M, Sommer. Multiple Measures of Driver Drowsiness - A Correlation Study; Proc. Int Conf Monitoring Sleep and Sleepiness - From Physiology to New Sensors (SENSATION 2006), Basel, Switzerland, 2006, 28

Sommer D, Chen M, Golz M, Trutschel U, Mandic D. Fusion of State Space and Frequency-Domain Features for Improved Microsleep Detection; In W. Duch et al. (Eds.): Int Conf Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2005); LNCS3697, 753-759, Springer, Berlin

Moore-Ede M, Heitmann A, Dawson T, Guttkuhn R. Truckload Driver Accident, Injury and Turnover Rates Reduced by Fatigue Risk-Informed Performance-Based Program. 2005 Fatigue Management in Transportation Operations International Conference, Seattle WA.

Kerin A, Aguirre A. Improving health, safety and profits in extended hours operations (shiftwork). Ind. Health 43(1), 201-8. 2005.

Aguirre A, Curley AL. Extended hours issues in nursing: exploring the problems, finding the solutions. Circadian Technologies. Lexington. 2005.

Moore-Ede M, Schlesinger B. Scientific Basis for Challenges to Work-Rest & Hours-of-Service Regulations. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy 71: 262-279, Spring 2004

Moore-Ede M, Heitmann A, Guttkuhn R, Trutschel U, Aguirre A, Croke D. Circadian alertness simulator for fatigue risk assessment in transportation: application to reduce frequency and severity of truck accidents. Aviation Space Environ. Med. 75(3), A107-118. 2004.

Kerin K, Aguirre A. Human resources management in the extended hours workplace. Circadian Technologies. Lexington. 2004.

Dawson, T. Proportional Staffing; Putting people where the work is. March Issue. Parcel, Shipping, and Distribution Magazine.2003.

Guttkuhn R, Dawson T, Trutschel U, Walker J, Moroz M. A Discrete Event Simulation for the Crew Assignment Process in North American Freight Railroads. Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, December, New Orleans, LA.

Guttkuhn R, Trutschel U, Heitmann A., Aguirre A, Moore-Ede M. Human Fatigue Risk Simulations in 24/7 Operations. Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference. December, New Orleans, LA.

Trutschel U, Guttkuhn R, Heitmann A, Aguirre A, Moore-Ede M. Expert system for simulating and predicting sleep and alertness patterns, V. Palade, R. J. Howlett, L. Jain (Eds.), Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems, KES2003, Oxford, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York. pp 104-110. 2003.

Aguirre A. Challenges confronting Hispanic extended hours workers and their employers. Circadian Technologies. Lexington. 2003.

Aguirre A. Health and extended hours operation. Understanding the challenges, implementing the solutions. Circadian Technologies. Lexington. 2003.

Moore-Ede M. Fatigue in Transportation Operations. Clin. Occup. Environ. Med. 2: 11-27, 2002.

Heitmann A, Guttkuhn R, Aguirre A, Trutschel U, Moore-Ede M. Technologies for the monitoring and prevention of driver fatigue. In: Proceedings of the First International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver assessment, Training and Vehicle Design. Aspen, CO. 2001.

Heitmann A, Guttkuhn R, Aguirre A, Trutschel U, Moore-Ede M. Technologies for the monitoring and prevention of driver fatigue. In: Proceedings of the First International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver assessment, Training and Vehicle Design. Aspen, CO. 2001.

Sommer D, Golz M, Trutschel U, Ramsthaler C, Moore-Ede M. Characterization of the Electroencephalogram of Microsleep Using Self-Organized Feature Maps. Advanced Computing in Biomedicine. To be presented at ICSC Conference, Bangor, United Kingdom, June 2001

Golz M, Sommer D, Seyfarth A, Trutschel U, Moore-Ede M. Application of Vector-Based Neural Networks for the Recognition of Beginning Microsleep Episodes with an Eyetracking System. Advanced Computing in Biomedicine. To be presented at ICSC Conference, Bangor, United Kingdom, June 2001

Coburn E, Moore-Ede M. Keeping the Night Shift Alert. Journal of Workers Compensation. 10: 22-35, 2001

Aguirre A, Heitmann A, Imrie A, Sirois W, Moore-Ede M. Conversion from an 8-h to a 12-h shift schedule. In: Shiftwork in the 21^st Century, S. Hornberger, P.Knauth, G. Costa, S. Folkard (Eds.). Peter Lang, Frankfurt. 2000.

Chyten J, Aguirre A, Simonds L, Moore-Ede M. Sleep apnea screening and treatment program for shiftworkers. In: Shiftwork in the 21^st Century, S. Hornberger, P.Knauth, G. Costa, S. Folkard (Eds.). Peter Lang, Frankfurt. 2000.

Heitmann A, Trutschel U, Guttkuhn R, Mitchell J, Moore-Ede M. Computerized sleep and alertness simulations for work schedule evaluation. Shiftworker International Newsletter, 2000

Heitmann A., Trutschel U., Guttkuhn R., Mitchell J, Moore-Ede M.: Computerized sleep and alertness simulations for work schedule evaluation. Shiftwork International Newsletter 16 (2), 125. 1999.

Heitmann A., Aguirre A. Dawson T., Trutschel U., Guttkuhn R, Moore-Ede M.: Effectiveness of a bid-pack scheduling system for freight train crews. Shiftwork International Newsletter 16 (2), 67. 1999.

Aguirre A., Heitmann A., Imrie A., Sirois W, Moore-Ede M.: Conversion from an 8-h to a 12-h shift schedule. Shiftwork International Newsletter 16 (2), 42. 1999.

Moore-Ede M., Guttkuhn R., Heitmann A., Trutschel U., Lahoud P, Cleveland D, Norloff P. Automatic detection of microsleep events using a Neuro-Fuzzy Hybrid system. In: RJ Carrol (Ed), Ocular measures of driver alertness, Technical Conference Proceedings, US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Report # FHWA-MC-99-136. pp. 98-107, 1999.

Klerman EB, Boulos Z, Edgar DM, Mistlberger RE, Moore-Ede MC. Circadian and homeostatic influences on sleep in the squirrel monkey: Sleep after sleep deprivation. Sleep: 22 (1) 45-59, 1999

Klerman EB, Boulos Z, Edgar DM, Mistlberger R., Moore-Ede MC. EEG Delta Activity during undisturbed sleep in the squirrel monkey. Sleep: 1999

Circadian Technologies. Shell Driver Alertness Program. Assessment of status of research on driver fatigue, causes and countermesures and recommendations for future R&D priorities. Report. Circadian Technologies. Cambridge. 1999

Guttkuhn R., Trutschel U., Heitmann A., Aguirre A., Moore-Ede M.; Automatic microsleep detection by artificial neural network and fuzzy context interpretation. J. of Sleep Research 7, 110. 1998.

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