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This report summarizes the technical work of the Applied and Computational Sciences Division of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. Part I (Overview)...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requires general human systems integration (HSI) criteria for the design and development of human-machine interfaces...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requires general human systems integration (HSI) criteria for the design and development of human-machine interfaces...
Joshua M. Franklin, Charles W. Wergin, Harold Booth
This Interagency Report provides guidance to individuals scoring vulnerabilities using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Version 2.0 scoring...
This guide describes how to use the STEP File Analyzer, a software tool that generates a spreadsheet from a STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model...
David Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, Katherine Sharpless, Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Sam A. Margolis
The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinates the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure...
Jennifer M. Lynch, Rebecca S. Pugh, Paul R. Becker
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) expanded its analytical measurement and specimen banking capabilities into the U.S. Pacific Islands...
Explores methods for defining a standardized matcher score for Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). A standardized score facilitates evaluating...
Laura J. Wood, Melissa M. Phillips, Catherine A. Rimmer, Mary Bedner, Kaitlyn Chieh, Rick L. Paul
The NIST Dietary Supplement Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (DSQAP) was established in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...
Passwords are the most prevalent method used by the public and private sectors for controlling user access to systems. Organizations establish security policies...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requires general human systems integration (HSI) criteria for the design and development of human-machine interfaces...
Shahram Orandi, Kenneth Ko, Stephen S. Wood, John D. Grantham, Michael D. Garris
Background: NIST conducted a study of the FBI Repository for Individuals of Special Concern (RISC) system using various gallery and Mobile ID [MOBID]...
Facial Age Estimation is an area of study new to the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Still Track. While peripheral to traditional face recognition, it has...
Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, David Brick, Ayse P. Gurses, Ant Ozok, Debora Simmons, Michael C. Gibbons
This report recommendations provide a first step in moving from a billing-centered perspective (i.e., focusing on ensuring maximum and timely reimbursement) to...
Smart cards (smart identity tokens) are now being extensively deployed for identity verification for controlling access to Information Technology (IT) resources...
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, John D. Grantham, Michael D. Garris
This study examines the use of the NIST Spectral Image Validation and Verification (SIVV) metric for the application of detecting the sample rate of a given...
Users have developed various coping strategies for minimizing or avoiding the friction and burden associated with managing and using their portfolios of user...
Fingerprint quality assessment is a crucial task which needs to be conducted accurately in various phases in the biometric enrolment and recognition processes...
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST...
George Quinn, Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Nick Rymer
The IREX IV evaluation builds upon IREX III as a performance test of one-to-many iris recognition. This report is the second part of the IREX IV evaluation...
Charles R. McLean, Sanjay Jain, Yung-Tsun Lee, Charles W. Hutchings
This document provides general guidance that is designed to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Program Managers and other executives inside and...
Nondestructive test (NDT) methods and sensor technologies are evaluated in the context of providing input parameters to service life prediction models for...
We investigate the feasibility, and the potential advantages and pitfalls of using modeling languages such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and the...
A password policy may seem formal in the sense that it is written in a legalistic language, giving the impression of a binding contract. However, such policies...
Step by step time-marching schemes are fundamental tools in the numerical exploration of well-posed nonlinear evolutionary partial differential equations...
Amanda L. Forster, Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Aaron M. Forster
This document describes recommendations provided to the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Special Technical Committee (STC) for the revision of the Stab...
This paper introduces NIST's Sustainable Process Analytics Formalism (SPAF) to facilitate the use of simulation and optimization technologies for decision...