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Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings
The purpose of this document is to provide: 1) a compendium of information pertaining to incident management modeling and simulation, and 2) a foundation for
Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings
The purpose of this document is to provide a foundation for establishing a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information exchange
Charles R. McLean, Yung-Tsun Lee, Sanjay Jain, Charles W. Hutchings
The purpose of this document is to provide a foundation for establishing a modeling and simulation technical interest group whose focus is information exchange
We address the problem of state estimation of the power system for the Smart Grid.We assume that the monitoring of the electrical grid is done by a network of
Mary Parmelee, Harold Booth, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone
This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Name Matching version 2.3 specification. The CPE Name Matching specification is part of a stack of CPE
Paul R. Cichonski, David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone
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David A. Waltermire, Paul R. Cichonski, Karen Scarfone
This report defines the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) Applicability Language version 2.3 specification. The CPE Applicability Language specification is part
Richard E. Ricker, David J. Pitchure, Maureen E. Williams, Sandra W. Claggett
The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), and NIST collaborated in an investigation into the effects of "problem drywall"
Rick D. Davis, Yeon S. Kim, Richard H. Harris Jr., Marc R. Nyden, Nasir M. Uddin, Treye Thomas
An innovative technology was evaluated to generate fire and health safe soft furnishings. Nanoparticle-based thin coatings on a polyurethane foam and nonwoven
Today's information systems face sophisticated attackers who combine multiple vulnerabilities to penetrate networks with devastating impact. The overall
In this paper, a novel apparatus and fluorescence detection method for measuring the permeation of H 2O 2 through polymer barriers (i.e., plastic bottles, caps
Andrew P. Founds, Nick Orlans, Whiddon Genevieve, Craig I. Watson
This document and associated dataset is an update to the Multiple Encounter Dataset I (MEDS-I), originally published by the National Institute of Standards and
Conventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource congestion
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Stephen Quirolgico, Chung Tong Hu, Tom T. Karygiannis
The Access Control for SAR Systems (ACSS) project focused on developing a prototype privilege management system used to express and enforce policies for
Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis
The Computer Security Division of NIST/ITL supports the development of biometric conformance testing methodology standards and other conformity assessment
Asset identification plays an important role in an organization‟s ability to quickly correlate different sets of information about assets. This specification
This paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a Wildland-Urban Interface
This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2010. It
Shahram Orandi, John M. Libert, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Stephen S. Wood, Jin Chu Wu
This paper presents the findings of a study conducted to measure the impact of JPEG 2000 compression on fingerprint imagery at various levels of compression
Mahesh Mani, Kevin W. Lyons, Alexander P. Muroyama, Bjorn J. Johansson
Sustainability has become a ubiquitous term in almost every field, especially in engineering design and manufacturing. Recently, an increased awareness of
Antoine Fillinger, Lukas Diduch, Imad Hamchi, Vincent M. Stanford
The need for very large fingerprint benchmarks to test the efficacy of emerging commercial technologies for fingerprint minutia detection, matching, compression
Disassembly process is an essential activity in the mid and end of a products service life cycle. Maintenance is a mid product life activity, which involves
This report defines version 2.0 of the Open Checklist Interactive Language (OCIL). The intent of OCIL is to provide a standardized basis for expressing
Michael C. Gibbons, Svetlana Z. Lowry, Matthew T. Quinn
HITECH Act's provisions to drive adoption and meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) holds great promise in supporting improvements in the quality