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Semiconductor Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Programs

July 2, 2007

Author(s)

Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez, Michele L. Buckley

The microelectronics industry supplies vital components to the electronics industry and to the U.S. economy, enabling rapid improvements in productivity and in...

Advancing Problem Definition and Concept Generation for Improved Product Life Cycle Management

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Eswaran Subrahmanian, Yoram Reich

Large engineering projects have become the norm with new additional requirements arising from the point of view of life cycle management of the product...

An Ontology for Assembly Representation

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Xenia Fiorentini, Iacopo Gambino, V.C. Liang, Sebti Foufou, Sudarsan Rachuri, Mahesh Mani, Conrad E. Bock

Mechanical assemblies are systems composed of modules that are either subassemblies or parts. Traditionally an assembly information model contains information...

Data Exchange of Parametric CAD Models Using ISO 10303-108

July 1, 2007

Author(s)

Junhwan Kim, Mike Pratt, Raj G. Iyer, Ram D. Sriram

Modern CAD systems generate feature-based product shape models with parameterization and constraints. Until recently, standards for CAD data exchange among...

Effects of Scanner Height on Fingerprint Capture

June 27, 2007

Author(s)

Mary Theofanos, Shahram Orandi, Ross J. Micheals, Brian Stanton, Nien F. Zhang

Although there is widespread deployment of biometric technologies such as fingerprint systems, little attention is being paid to the human-computer interaction...

Information Security and Assurance Metrics (ISAM) A Framework for Defining Security, Assurance, and Associated Technical Metrics

June 25, 2007

Author(s)

Alicia Clay Jones, Jaime Montemayor, William Blackert, David Carman, Anusha Saksena, Paul Schuster, David Silberberg

This report summarizes the results of interviews with a multi-disciplinary group of experts who share an interest in information security and assurance metrics...

Common Industry Specification for Usability --Requirements

June 13, 2007

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos

.The Common Industry Specification for Usability - Requirements (CISU-R) helps usability professionals, product managers, and others working in product design...

Towards Development of an ISO Container to Spreader Bar Sensor System

June 12, 2007

Author(s)

Richard J. Norcross

This report describes a sensor system that determines the relative pose between a crane spreader and an ISO container. The sensor system supports efforts to...

Concepts of Operations (CONOPS) for the Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT)

June 12, 2007

Author(s)

Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Brian J. Cochran, Patrick J. Grother, Michael D. Indovina, Craig I. Watson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is conducting a series of tests for evaluating the state of the art in Automated Latent Fingerprint...

3-D Segmentation and Motion Estimation of Range Data for Crash Prevention

June 6, 2007

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

In this paper we present a 3-D object segmentation and motion estimation scheme of range video data for crash prevention applications. The segmentation is based...

From B-Spline Mesh Generation to Effective Visualizations for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang

We discuss the use of tensor product B-splines to generate grids, or meshes, to facilitate the plotting of high level mathematical functions for the National...

Dissemination of 3D Visualizations of Complex Function Data for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

June 1, 2007

Author(s)

Bonita V. Saunders, Qiming Wang, Sanford P. Ressler

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a digital library to replace the widely used National Bureau of Standards Handbook of...

Tenth Annual Report on Federal Agency Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and Conformity Assessment

May 11, 2007

Author(s)

Mary F. Donaldson, M B. Moore

The U.S. Department of Commerce s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presents this summary report for the Office of Management and Budget...

Quality Summarization, Recommendations on Biometric Quality Summarization across the Application Domain

May 3, 2007

Author(s)

Elham Tabassi, Patrick J. Grother

This document is a set of recommendations to users of biometric quality assessment algorithms. In particular it is concerned with aggregation of quality values...

Analysis of Pipeline Steel Corrosion Data

May 2, 2007

Author(s)

Richard E. Ricker

Currently, the U.S. has over 3.7 million kilometers (2.3 million miles) of pipelines crossing the country transporting natural gas and hazardous liquids from...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis April 2007: Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135 and NBS Special Publication 709

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Amy S. Rushing, Barbara C. Lippiatt

This is the April 2007 edition of energy price indices and discount factors for performing life-cycle cost analyses of energy and water conservation and...

Visualization and Modeling of Smoke Transport Over Landscape Scales

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Glenn P. Forney, William E. Mell

Computational tools have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for modeling fire spread and smoke transport. These tools...

Surface Topography Analysis for a Feasibility Assessment of a National Ballistics Imaging Database

May 1, 2007

Author(s)

Theodore V. Vorburger, James H. Yen, B Bachrach, Thomas Brian Renegar, Li Ma, Hyug-Gyo Rhee, Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Jun-Feng Song, Charles D. Foreman

This document reports on a study to determine the feasibility and utility of a national ballistics database of casing and bullet images. The purpose of such a...

Specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF), Version 1.1.3

April 30, 2007

Author(s)

Neal Ziring, Stephen Quinn

The Cyber Security Research and Development Act of 2002 tasks the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to "develop, and revise as necessary, a...

Machine Shop Information Model Application, Next Step

April 11, 2007

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun Lee, Yan Luo

Simulation is defined as the imitation of the operation of a system or real-world process over time, and in many cases, manufacturing provides one of the most...

Training and Optimization of Operating Parameters for Flash LADAR Cameras

April 10, 2007

Author(s)

M Price, J Kenney, Roger D. Eastman, Tsai H. Hong

Flash LADAR cameras based on continuous-wave, time-of-flight range measurement deliver fast 3D imaging for robot applications including mapping, localization...

A Stokes Permeability Solver for Three-Dimensional Porous Media

April 4, 2007

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz, Nicos Martys

A set of C and Fortran computer programs have been developed for computing the permeability of three-dimensional porous media under incompressible Stokes flow...

An Ontology for the e-Kanban Business Process

April 1, 2007

Author(s)

Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Boonserm Kulvatunyou

Large automotive manufacturers, including automakers and the manufacturers of principal automotive subsystems, make their products in large volumes. This means...

The Use of Portable Fire Extinguishers in Nightclubs: Workshop Summary

April 1, 2007

Author(s)

William L. Grosshandler

The NIST technical investigation into The Station nightclub fire specifically recommended that a study be performed to determine the minimum number and...

Accounting for Emergency Response in Building Evacuation: Modeling Differential Egress Capacity Solutions

April 1, 2007

Author(s)

Jason D. Averill, Weiguo Song

The impact of firefighter response on the progress of the building evacuation is not typically considered. The emergency response can significantly increase...

Enhancement of the Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed to Include a Zone Fire Model With HVAC Components

April 1, 2007

Author(s)

Cheol D. Park, Paul A. Reneke, Michael A. Galler, Steven T. Bushby, William D. Davis

As part of a Cybernetic Building Systems project at the NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory, a whole building emulator called the Virtual Cybernetic...

Large Scale Experiments on Structures under Fire Loading:2 Behavior of Full-Scale Frames with Slim Floor Slab Construction under Furnace Loading

March 30, 2007

Author(s)

Yuli Dong, Kuldeep R. Prasad

In recent years, increasing interest has been shown in developing and designing slim floor systems in steel-framed buildings. This paper describes the results...

Face Recognition Vendor Test 2006 and Iris Challenge Evaluation 2006 Large-Scale Results

March 29, 2007

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, K W. Bowyer, P J. Flynn, Alice J. O'Toole, W T. Scruggs, Cathy L. Schott, Matthew Sharpe

The Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006 are independent U.S. Government evaluations of face and iris recognition...

Computer Security Division 2006 Annual Report

March 21, 2007

Author(s)

Tanya L. Brewer, Kevin M. Stine

This report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during the Fiscal Year 2006. It...

Cell Phone Forensic Tools: An Overview and Analysis Update

March 21, 2007

Author(s)

Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Ludovic Moenner

Cell phones and other handheld devices incorporating cell phone capabilities (e.g., Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) phones) are ubiquitous. Rather than just...

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