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NIST Standard Reference materials (SRMs) are used by industry, government and academia to ensure the highest quality measurements. This catalog lists over 1300...
This document, SP250-71 (2007), NIST Measurements Services: 0:45 Surface Color, describes the instrumentation, standards, and techniques used to measure the...
Chiara F. Ferraris, William F. Guthrie, Max A. Peltz, Robin K. Haupt
The standard reference material (SRM) for fineness of cement, SRM 114, is an integral part of the calibration material routinely used in the cement industry to...
This document describes the current Framework models of the overall Autonomy Levels for Unmanned Systems Framework, or ALFUS. ALFUS addresses the autonomy...
The 2007 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'07) Workshop is the seventh installment in the series that started in 2000 targeted at defining...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in charge of realizing, maintaining, and disseminating the international Scale of 1990 (ITS-90)...
In its decade of systematic research (1997-2006), the NGP revitalized the field of fire suppression science. The NGP arose as a result of a discovery that...
The Advanced Fire Service Technologies (AFST) Program objectives are to (*) Provide the science and performance metrics for development and implementation of...
Rodney A. Bryant, Kathryn M. Butler, R Vettori, P Greenberg
This workshop brought together members of the fire service, particulate detector manufacturers, public health professionals, airborne particulate researchers...
This Recommendation specifies the Galois/Counter Mode (GCM), an algorithm for authenticated encryption with associated data, and its specialization, GMAC, for...
Iadh Ounis, Maarten de Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne, Ian Soboroff
The Blog track began this year, with the aim to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. For this purpose, a new large-scale test...
The 92nd Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 8 - 13, 2007. The theme of the conference was...
This report provides an overview of the fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006. TREC 2006 was held at NIST on November 16-19, 2006. The conference was...
Karen A. Scarfone, Murugiah P. Souppaya, Matt Sexton
Many threats against end user devices, such as desktop and laptop computers, smart phones, personal digital assistants, and removable media, could cause...
In its decade of systematic research (1997-2006), the NGP revitalized the field of fire suppression science. The NGP arose as a result of a discovery that...
Miles C. Tracy, Wayne Jansen, Karen A. Scarfone, Theodore Winograd
Web servers are often the most targeted and attacked hosts on organizations' networks. As a result, it is essential to secure Web servers and the network...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides calibration services for airspeed instrumentation such as Pitot-static tubes, anemometers...
Jolene Splett, Christopher N. McCowan, Hariharan K. Iyer, Chih-Ming Wang
The purpose of this recommended practice guide is to demonstrate how to determine the uncertainty associated with mean absorbed energy of specimens tested on a...
Anoop Singhal, Theodore Winograd, Karen A. Scarfone
The advance of Web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web services based on the eXtensible...
Smokeview is a software tool designed to visualize numerical calculations generated by fire models such as the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), a computational...
D. Richard Kuhn, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas Montgomery
This document introduces the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains its importance to the internet, and provides a set of best practices that can help in...
Joshua A. Hadler, Christopher L. Cromer, John H. Lehman
This document describes a calibration service for absolute laser power and energy measurements of laser power meters and detectors used with continuous wave...
There is a need for real-time identification of hazards to enable selection of appropriate respiratory protection for firefighters. The challenge is to transfer...
Defines the content, format, and units of measurement for the exchange of fingerprint, palmprint, facial/mugshot, scar, mark, & tattoo (SMT), iris, and other...