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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Test Suite for Building Energy Analysis of Conceptual Spatial Layout

May 11, 2010

Author(s)

Kenway K. Chen, Robert R. Lipman, Mark E. Palmer

This report documents a test suite for validation and conformance testing in support of the interoperability among building design and energy analysis...

Multiple Encounter Dataset I (MEDS-I)

May 9, 2010

Author(s)

Craig I. Watson

In December, 2008, the FBI provided MITRE with an extract of submissions of deceased persons. The submissions contain face images of subjects with multiple...

Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Management and Health Care Systems: Workshop Summary

April 21, 2010

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun T. Lee, Susan O'Hara, Charles McLean

The workshop on Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Management and Health Care Systems was held from July 24 to July 25, 2008 in Boston, MA. The workshop...

Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure - NIST Workshop Report

April 21, 2010

Author(s)

Sudarsan Rachuri, Jae H. Lee, Anantha Narayanan Narayanan, Prabir Sarkar, Kevin W. Lyons, Ram D. Sriram, Sharon J. Kemmerer

This report summarizes the presentations, discussions and recommendations of NIST Workshop on Sustainable Manufacturing: Metrics, Standards, and Infrastructure...

A Semantic Product Modeling Framework and Language for Behavior Evaluation

April 8, 2010

Author(s)

Jae H. Lee, Hyo Won Suh, Steven J. Fenves, Sudarsan Rachuri, Xenia Fiorentini, Ram D. Sriram, Conrad E. Bock

Supporting different stakeholder viewpoints across the product's entire lifecycle requires semantic richness for representing product related information. This...

Assessing Technology Gaps for the Federal Highway Administration Digital Highway Measurement Program (NISTIR 7685)

April 1, 2010

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek, Itai Katz, Alan M. Lytle, Kamel S. Saidi, Nicholas A. Scott

The ability to automatically collect more and better measurements of roadway assets (e.g., existence, condition, location, type) and to accurately map both...

A Report on the Privilege (Access) Management Workshop

March 30, 2010

Author(s)

Annie W. Sokol

This document is based on the discussions and conclusions of the Privilege (Access) Management Workshop held on 1-3 September, 2009 at the Gaithersburg...

AP210 Edition 2 Concept of Operations

March 26, 2010

Author(s)

Kevin G. Brady, Jamie Stori, Thomas Thurman

One of the most prevalent requirements of manufacturing industries today is the need to exchange and share product information within and between enterprises...

A RESTful Web Service for Virtual Supply Chain Time Management

March 25, 2010

Author(s)

Guillaume Radde

A common issue when building distributed simulations is the issue of time management. Each discrete event simulation has its own notion of time, and a mechanism...

Computer Security Division 2009 Annual Report

March 23, 2010

Author(s)

Patrick D. O'Reilly

This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2009. It...

A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Automotive Industry Solution to Intercontinental Supply Chain Operations

March 17, 2010

Author(s)

Susanne Muller

This paper describes a cost benefit analysis of the Materials Off-shore Sourcing (MOSS) project. The project focused on improving the operation of US inbound...

Static and Dynamic Stability Performance Measurements of the Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair/Forklift

March 3, 2010

Author(s)

Joshua Johnson, Roger V. Bostelman

The Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has unique capabilities and a...

Description & Results of the 2007 NIST/NOAA Interlaboratory Comparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in Marine Mammal Tissues

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

John Kucklick, Rebecca Pugh, Aurore Guichard, Michele M. Schantz, Stephen Wise, Teresa Rowles

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in support of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administrations Marine Mammal Health and Stranding...

Linking Canny Edge Pixels with Pseudo-watershed Lines

March 1, 2010

Author(s)

Javier Bernal

A method is presented for computing pseudo-watershed lines that can be used for linking pixels that have been identified as edge pixels with the Canny edge...

A Collection of 2D Elliptic Problems for Testing Adaptive Algorithms

February 26, 2010

Author(s)

William F. Mitchell

Adaptive grid refinement is a critical component of the improvements that have recently been made in algorithms for the numerical solution of partial...

Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2009

February 25, 2010

Author(s)

Ronald F. Boisvert

This report summarizes the technical work of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division (MCSD) of NIST s Information Technology Laboratory. Part I...

Guide to SIMfill Use and Development

February 24, 2010

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Aurelien M. Delaitre

SIMfill is a proof-of-concept, open source, application developed by NIST to populate identity modules with test data, as a way to assess the recovery...

A Model of Joint Congestion Control and Routing Through Random Assignment of Paths

February 16, 2010

Author(s)

Fern Y. Hunt, Vladimir V. Marbukh

We investigate the trade-off between utility and path diversity in a model of congestion control where there can be multiple routes between two locations in a...

Quantifying How Lighting and Focus Affect Face Recognition Performance

February 16, 2010

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, David Bolme, Geof H. Givens, Yui M. Lui

Recent studies show that face recognition in uncontrolled images remains a challenging problem, although the reasons why are less clear. Changes in illumination...

Overlap-Based Cell Tracker

February 2, 2010

Author(s)

Joe Chalfoun, Antonio Cardone, Alden A. Dima, Michael Halter, Daniel P. Allen

In order to facilitate the extraction of quantitative data from live cell image sets, automated image analysis methods are needed. This paper presents an...

System Dynamics Modeling of Corn Ethanol as a Bio Transportation Fuel in the United States

January 28, 2010

Author(s)

Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Stephen -. Nowak

The production capacity of corn ethanol as a transportation fuel is experiencing rapid growth in the United States. The demand is driven by increased prices of...

Final Report on the Collapse of the Dallas Cowboys Indoor Practice Facility, May 2, 2009 (NIST IR 7661)

January 26, 2010

Author(s)

John L. Gross, Joseph Main, Long Phan, Fahim H. Sadek, Stephen A. Cauffman, David P. Jorgensen

This report summarizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) study of the collapse of the Dallas Cowboys indoor practice facility that...

DYNAMIC PERCEPTION WORKSHOP REPORT: Requirements and Standards for Advanced Manufacturing

January 14, 2010

Author(s)

Tsai Hong Hong, Elena R. Messina, Hui-Min Huang, Michael O. Shneier, Roger D. Eastman, Jane Shi, James Wells

The Dynamic Perception workshop was intended to further the development of standardized, reproducible, and portable test methods that can advance the technology...

Complex Systems Program Activities Summary, Fiscal Years 2007-2008

January 12, 2010

Author(s)

Sanford P. Ressler

This report summarizes the work of the Complex Systems Program within NIST s Information Technology Laboratory. The Overview presents some background material...

Cryptographic Key Management Workshop Summary - June 8-9, 2009

January 8, 2010

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Dennis K. Branstad, Santosh Chokhani, Miles E. Smid

On June 8 and 9, 2009, NIST held a Cryptographic Key Management (CKM) Workshop at its Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus that attracted approximately 80 people...

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

January 5, 2010

Author(s)

Eyvon Petty

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...

A Hybrid Frame Concealment Algorithm for H.264/AVC

January 5, 2010

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In packet-based video transmissions, packets loss due to channel errors may result in the loss of the whole video frame. Recently, many error concealment...

Proceedings of the Privilege Management Workshop, September 1-3, 2009

January 1, 2010

Author(s)

Tanya L. Brewer, Annie W. Sokol, Sheldon A. Durrant

Privilege management is large and complex, often the source of heated debate and opinion, and fraught with widely-understood, yet ill-defined terminology and...

QOD Standalone Users Guide

December 16, 2009

Author(s)

Julien C. Cuvillier, Katherine C. Morris

This report describes installation and use of the XML Schema Quality of Design Standalone testing system, or QOD Standalone. QOD Standalone is one of several...

Carbon Weight Analysis for Machining Operation and Allocation for Redesign

December 16, 2009

Author(s)

Gaurav Ameta, Mahesh Mani, Sudarsan Rachuri, Kevin W. Lyons, Shaw C. Feng, Ram D. Sriram

The objective of this research is to explore and develop a new methodology for computing carbon weight (CW) - often referred to as carbon footprint, in...

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