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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Polymers Division FY 2004 Programs and Accomplishments

September 1, 2004

Author(s)

Eric J. Amis, Chad R. Snyder

The programs and accomplishments of the NIST Polymers Division for the fiscal year 2004 are described.

The NIST 3 Megawatt Quantitative Heat Release Rate Facility - Description and Procedures

September 1, 2004

Author(s)

Rodney Bryant, Thomas J. Ohlemiller, Erik Johnsson, Anthony Hamins, B S. Grove, William Guthrie, Alexander Maranghides, George Mulholland

The 3 Megawatt Heat Release Rate Facility was developed at NIST as a first step toward having broad capabilities for making quantitative large scale fire...

Hydra User's Guide

August 30, 2004

Author(s)

Matthew L. Aronoff

This document is intended to be a User's Guide to Hydra. It is aimed toward the standards development engineers and other technical users who may be interested...

Seeing in Three Dimensions: An alternative technique for viewing large information spaces

August 30, 2004

Author(s)

Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina, Kevin G. Brady

This paper describes Hydra, a graphical software tool designed for use on the Web, that is intended to simplify the building, editing, and searching of large...

Significant papers from the first 50 years of the Boulder Labs

August 16, 2004

Author(s)

Mary E. DeWeese, Margaret Luebs, Heather McCullough

The Department of Commerce Boulder Labs were dedicated on September 14, 1954, in the shadow of World War II, and the of a bright future. This volume presents a...

Relativity of Explicit Conceptual Models

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

David W. Flater

Explicit conceptual models are supposed to capture knowledge of lasting value in a reusable form. Reuse of explicit conceptual models is hampered by arbitrary...

Dublin Core and the Alternative Interface Access Protocol

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Charles L. Sheppard, B Laplant, L Nevile

This paper is a report on a metadata effort that aims to make all of our lives easier, especially the lives of people with disabilities. The metadata will be...

Major U.S. Cities Using National Standard Fire Hydrants, One Century After the Great Baltimore Fire

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Momar D. Seck, D D. Evans

Fire Equipment responding from different cities to the Great Baltimore Fire in 1904 were hampered or rendered useless by the incompatibility of hose and fire...

PC Modeling and Simulation Guidelines: Volume 1 - Overview

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Charles R. McLean, Frank H. Riddick

The Navy is preparing to make significant investments in personal computer (PC) simulation-based learning systems. Presenting learning material in various...

Integrated Supply Chain Simulation System - A Design Specification for a Generic Supply Chain Simulator

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Shigeki Umeda, Yung-Tsun Lee

This paper describes a design specification for a generic, supply-chain-simulation system. The proposed simulation system is based on schedule-driven and stock...

Inputs and Outputs in PSL

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Conrad Bock, Michael Gruninger

Inputs and outputs are ubiquitous in flow modeling, including popular programming languages. This paper examines how inputs and outputs can be formalized in the...

Metric Mapping Concepts for TIA

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Michelle P. Steves, Jean C. Scholtz

In this paper, we present a metrics framework and the underlying concepts that were used to help structure a series of evaluations of software tools to support...

Proceedings of the Biometric Consortium Conference 2003, Vol 1, No 2)

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio, J S. Dunn

This document contains the proceedings from the 2003 Biometric Consortium Conference held September 22-24, 2003, in Arlington, Virginia. The conference provides...

PDA Forensic Tools: an Overview and Analysis

August 1, 2004

Author(s)

Richard Ayers, Wayne Jansen

Adequate user authentication is a persistent problem, particularly with mobile devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), which tend to be highly...

The NIST Road Network Database: Version 1.0

July 30, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Anthony J. Barbera, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Jerome G. Ajot, Eric Hui, M Paredes

For an autonomous vehicle to be able to navigate a road network, it must be aware of and must respond appropriately to any object it encounters. This includes...

The NIST Road Network Database: Version 1.0

July 30, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff, Stephen B. Balakirsky, Tony Barbera, Christopher J. Scrapper Jr, Jerome G. Ajot, Eric Hui

For an autonomous vehicle to be able to navigate a road network, it must be aware of and must respond appropriately to any object it encounters. This includes...

Program: 2004 Boulder Laboratories Postdoctoral Poster Symposium

July 15, 2004

Author(s)

Joe W. Magee

In honor of both the Boulder Labs 50 Year Anniversary and 50 years of the NIST/National Research Council Postdoctoral Associateship Program, we will hold the...

An Assessment of Passive Microwave and Millimeterwave Sensors for the Standoff Detection of Chemical Agents

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Gerald T. Fraser, Angela R. Hight Walker

Semiconductor Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics Programs

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

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

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

Triangular Meshing and Volume Determination

July 1, 2004

Author(s)

Christoph J. Witzgall, Geraldine Cheok

Parametric studies are reported for investigating the feasibility and accuracy of calculating volumes from LADAR scans of artifacts. The TIN (=Triangulated...

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation 2003: Summary of Results and Analysis Report

June 30, 2004

Author(s)

Charles L. Wilson, Patrick J. Grother, Ross J. Micheals, S C. Otto, Craig I. Watson, R. A. Hicklin, H Korves, Brad Ulery, M Zoepfl

The Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003 was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of fingerprint matching, identification, and verification...

Studies of One-to-One Fingerprint Matching With Vendor SDK Matchers

June 24, 2004

Author(s)

Craig I. Watson, Charles L. Wilson, Karen Marshall, Michael D. Indovina, Robert D. Snelick

NIST has conducted testing of one-to-one SDK (Software Development Kit) based COTS fingerprint matching systems to evaluate the accuracy of one-to-one matching...

Traceability for microwave remote-sensing radiometry

June 1, 2004

Author(s)

James P. Randa

A plan is presented for developing a standard for brightness temperature at microwave frequencies, as well as two different methods for transferring this...

Impact of Sprinklers on the Fire Hazard in Dormitories: Day Room Fire Experiments (NIST IR 7120)

June 1, 2004

Author(s)

Daniel M. Madrzykowski, D W. Stroup, William D. Walton

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted two series of full-scale fire experiments in abandoned dormitory buildings. The objective of...

Time Synchronization for Electronic Distributed Systems

May 28, 2004

Author(s)

John D. Gale, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

Synchronization of clocks in electronic distributed systems has become critical in an increasing number of applications. Accurate knowledge of the correct time...

Performance Analysis of Next-Generation LADAR for Manufacturing, Construction, and Mobility

May 6, 2004

Author(s)

William C. Stone, Maris Juberts, Nicholas Dagalakis, Jack A. Stone Jr., Jason J. Gorman

The NIST Construction Metrology and Automation Group (CMAG), in cooperation with the NIST Intelligent Systems Division (ISD), is developing performance metrics...

Simulation of the Dynamics of a Fire in the Basement of a Hardware Store- New York, June 17, 2001

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen Kerber

A computer based fire model, Fire Dynamic Simulator was used to reconstruction a portion of a fire that occurred in the basement of a hardware store. A FDS...

The AMIS Approach to Systems Integration: An Overview

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

Donald E. Libes, Edward J. Barkmeyer Jr., Peter O. Denno, David Flater, Michelle P. Steves, Evan K. Wallace, Allison Barnard Feeney

This paper is an overview of the AMIS (Automated Methods for Integrating Systems) project approach to systems integration. The objective of the AMIS project is...

Predicting the Performance of Gaseous Air Cleaners Measurements and Model Simulations From a Residential-Scale Pilot Study

May 1, 2004

Author(s)

Cynthia H. Reed, Steven J. Nabinger, Steven Emmerich

As part of an ongoing effort to evaluate the predictive capability of indoor air quality (IAQ) simulation tools, the National Institute of Standards and...

Computer Security Division 2003 Annual Report

April 30, 2004

Author(s)

Tanya L. Brewer

This report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during the Fiscal Year 2003. It...

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