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Conferences

Web Application Scanners: Definitions and Functions

August 1, 2007

Author(s)

Elizabeth N. Fong, Vadim Okun

There are many commercial software security assurance tools that claim to detect and prevent vulnerabilities in application software. However, a closer look at

Correction of Location and Orientation Errors in Electromagnetic Motion Tracking

August 1, 2007

Author(s)

John G. Hagedorn, Steven G. Satterfield, John T. Kelso, W. Austin, Judith E. Terrill, Adele Peskin

We describe a method for calibrating an electromagnetic motion tracking device. Algorithms for correcting both location and orientation are presented. In

Measurement Science and Technology for Ceramics Innovations

July 31, 2007

Author(s)

Debra L. Kaiser, Robert F. Cook

Innovations in ceramic technologies are often driven by the discovery and introduction of a material with novel or improved behavior that enables realization of

Measuring the Overall Security of Network Configurations Using Attack Graphs

July 27, 2007

Author(s)

Lingyu Wang, Anoop Singhal, Sushil Jajodia

Today?s computer systems face sophisticated intrusions during which multiple vulnerabilities are combined for reaching an attack goal. To quantitatively assess

Engineering Safety, Applied Mechanics, and Nondestructive Evaluation

July 26, 2007

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong, Owen F. Hedden

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Pressure Vessels and Piping (PVP) Division, through its Materials and Fabrication Committee and Code and

Computational Model Predictions of Suspension Rheology: Comparison to Experiment

July 25, 2007

Author(s)

Nicos Martys, Chiara F. Ferraris, V Gupta, Josephine H. Cheung

Predicting the rheological properties of fresh concrete, mortars, and cement paste from first principles remains a great challenge. While progress has been made

Conformance Checking of Access Control Policies Specified in XACML

July 24, 2007

Author(s)

Vincent C. Hu, Evan Martin, Tao Xie

Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used security mechanisms. Access control mechanisms control which principals such as users or processes

Reliable Information Retrieval Evaluation With Incomplete and Biased Judgements

July 23, 2007

Author(s)

Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. Clarke, Peter C. Yeung, Ian Soboroff

Information retrieval evaluation based on the pooling method is inherently biased against systems that did not contribute to the pool of judged documents. This

Problems with Kendall's Tau

July 23, 2007

Author(s)

Mark Sanderson, Ian Soboroff

Test collections are most useful when they are reusable, that is, when they can be reliably used to rank systems that did not contribute to the pools. Pooled

Slab-coupled optical waveguide devices for low-noise signal generation

July 23, 2007

Author(s)

Paul W. Juodawlkis, Frederick J. O'Donnell, Jason J. Plant, John B. Schlager

We review the use of slab-coupled optical waveguide amplifiers (SCOWAs) in low-noise mode-locked and single-frequency lasers. We also report a new single

Optical frequency transfer over 38 km of installed fiber at less than 3x10^-19 residual fractional instability

July 23, 2007

Author(s)

Paul A. Williams, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

We transmit a narrow-linewidth cw laser at 1535 nm across 38 km of installed fiber. Through standard Doppler-cancellation techniques, we achieve a residual

Narrow linewidth 1.5 υm sources and the thermal limit

July 23, 2007

Author(s)

William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury

A measured 1 Hz linewidth between a cavity-stabilized, 1535 nm cw fiber laser and the 1535-nm tooth of a stabilized fiber frequency comb is below the

Verification, Validation, and Variability of Virtual Standards

July 18, 2007

Author(s)

Dale P. Bentz

As the potential of computer modeling of hydration and microstructure development of cement-based materials approaches realization, the development of virtual

Measuring Shielding Effectiveness of Small Enclosures/Cavities with a Reverberation Chamber

July 16, 2007

Author(s)

Christopher L. Holloway, John M. Ladbury, Jason Coder, Galen H. Koepke, David A. Hill

For various applications, there is a growing need to determine the shielding effectiveness of physically small, but electrically large, enclosures or cavities

Impedance Measurements of Inertance Tubes at High Frequency and Pressure

July 16, 2007

Author(s)

Michael A. Lewis, Ryan P. Taylor, Peter E. Bradley, Ray Radebaugh, Gershon Grossman, Zhihua Gan

Previous comparisons between measured and calculated inertance tube impedance were made at frequencies below 70 Hz and average pressures below 3 MPa. In this

Analysis of Welding Parameter Distribution in Stud Arc Welding

July 15, 2007

Author(s)

Ivan Samardzic, Stefanija Klaric, Thomas A. Siewert

This paper describes the application of on-line monitoring system for recording welding current and voltage during stud arc welding with a ceramic ferrule

RoHS Harmonization - Progress Toward a Single Global Standard?

July 13, 2007

Author(s)

Eric D. Simmon

The lack of global harmonization of RoHS initiatives has been a major headache for the electronics industry, to say the least. A number of organizations have

Fundamental Reaction-Transport Model for Simulating Microstructure Development in Hydrating Cement Pastes

July 13, 2007

Author(s)

Jeffrey W. Bullard

Color Rendering

July 11, 2007

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno

LED technologies are advancing at a swift pace and solid-state lighting (SSL) products are already introduced to the market and expected to grow rapidly. There

New Photometer Standards for Low Uncertainty Illuminance Scale Realization

July 11, 2007

Author(s)

George P. Eppeldauer, Carl C. Miller, Yoshihiro Ohno

Improved performance photometers have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to utilize the low spectral responsivity

Measurement of Solid-State-Lighting Products

July 11, 2007

Author(s)

Yoshihiro Ohno, Carl C. Miller

This paper discusses issues of photometric measurements of solid-state-lighting (SSL) products, for quantities including luminous flux, luminous efficacy

Pilot Study on Daytime Color Appearance of Retroreflective Sheeting

July 11, 2007

Author(s)

Wendy L. Davis, Carl C. Miller, Jason Kennedy, Carl Andersen

In this experiment, reference instrument measurements of the chromaticity of retroreflective materials were compared with human visual perceptions of their

Measuring the Luminance of a Retroreflective Sign

July 11, 2007

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, T Heimer, Tim Donahue, M Schwartz, David Kuniega

The area of retroreflective signage for traffic control is moving from fixed retroreflective requirements to a traffic scenario/performance based system. CIE

Robust Indoor Positioning Based on Received Signal Strength

July 10, 2007

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Julio Perez

RF-based indoor positioning is a challenging task due to the harsh indoor propagation environment. Techniques based on the received signal strength are simple

Quantifying Interpretability for Motion Imagery: Applications to Image Chain Analysis

July 9, 2007

Author(s)

Charles D. Fenimore, J Irvine, D Cannon, S Israel, G O'Brien, A Aviles, John W. Roberts

The motion imagery community will benefit from the availability of standard measures for assessing image interpretability. The National Imagery Interpretability

Free Space Antenna Factors through the use of Time-Domain Signal Processing

July 8, 2007

Author(s)

Dennis G. Camell, Robert T. Johnk, David R. Novotny, Chriss A. Grosvenor

This paper demonstrates the usefulness of time domain processing to determine free-space antenna factors,FSAF, for EMC antennas. Procedures are explained and

Using nested reverberation chambers to determine the shielding effectiveness of a material

July 8, 2007

Author(s)

Jason B. Coder, John M. Ladbury, Christopher L. Holloway

We examine the current method for determining the shielding effectiveness of a material using nested reverberation chambers and show a simplified approach

Verification of an EMC facility retro fit using time domain and field uniformity measurements

July 8, 2007

Author(s)

Dennis G. Camell, Michael Taylor, Robert T. Johnk, Benjamin Davis

This paper summarizes a joint NIST Industry measurement effort. Time domain and field uniformity measurements are used to verify a retro-fit of RF absorber in

Evaluation of the electromagnetic penetration of the NASA space shuttle endeavour using an ultra wideband measurement system

July 8, 2007

Author(s)

Robert T. Johnk, Robert Scully, David R. Novotny, Chriss A. Grosvenor, Nino Canales, Dennis G. Camell, Galen H. Koepke

This paper summarizes a joint NIST-NASA measurement effort to evaluate the electromagnetic penetration of the shuttle Endeavour. NASA is concerned about the

Lidar with femtosecond fiber-laser frequency combs

July 8, 2007

Author(s)

Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington

Passively mode-locked fiber lasers produce a broad spectrum of light that is also highly phase-coherent. Such sources have clear potential for remote sensing

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