selection of datasets for nas wide simulation validations authors jimmy krozel ph d bob hoffman steve penny and taryn butler white bruce ware nasa technical monitor karlin roth metron aviation principal investigator rto 73 task team goli davidson anindya roy travis october 2002 inc 131 elden st suite 200 herndon va 20170 contract with ames research center under subcontract titan systems corp src division prof is the dept math statistics university maryland at baltimore county i table contents 1 introduction objectives 2 approach 3 report organization data requirements 5 decomposition based on vast simulations 8 use feature vectors 10 sources 12 acars oooi aspm atcscc national log 14 4 bts 15 etms 16 6 opsnet 17 statistical analysis