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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

A Taxonomy of Definitions for Usability Studies in Biometrics

Author(s)
Ross J. Micheals, Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Shahram Orandi
Historically, usability research strives to focus on user behavior in a manner that is as system independent as possible. Although ¿ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 Standing

Summary of Latent Fingerprint work at NIST

Author(s)
Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Michael D. Garris
This paper describes past and present fingerprint activity at NIST. While the primary focus is on latent fingerprints, the paper also surveys relevant general

PHAML User's Guide, Version 1.0

Author(s)
William F. Mitchell
PHAML (Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive MultiLevel) is a Fortran module for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations. It uses finite elements

CONTAM 2.4 User Guide and Program Documentation

Author(s)
George Walton, William S. Dols
This manual describes the computer program CONTAM version 2.3 developed by NIST. CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program

Assessment of Access Control Systems

Author(s)
Chung Tong Hu, David F. Ferraiolo, David R. Kuhn
Access control is perhaps the most basic aspect of computer security. Nearly all applications that deal with financial, privacy, safety, or defense include some

Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool: GUI Design for Iteration 1

Author(s)
Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina, Eric D. Simmon
The Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool was designed as a novel graphical interface to data modeling for standards development. This paper describes the design intent

Message Validation with a Semantic Reasoning Tools

Author(s)
Peter O. Denno, Nenad Ivezic
This paper describes challenges encountered in the development of a tool to validate OASIS UBL-based (Universal Business Language) messages. The software tool

Personal Identity Verification Demonstration Summary

Author(s)
Erika McCallister, Hildegard Ferraiolo
This paper provides a summary of the NIST Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Demonstration. The PIV Demonstration took place from May 15 to June 14, 2006
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