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Conferences

Basis for Appropriate Safety Levels for Tall Buildings.

October 16, 2005

Author(s)

Richard W. Bukowski

Safety levels are a public policy decision made by regulators and not the technical community. It is appropriate for the technical community to suggest...

Challenges to Fire Safety in Tall Buildings.

October 16, 2005

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann

In order to increase the chances of survival during a fire emergency, the time available for a person to leave the danger zone must be longer than the time...

Emergency Egress and Access.

October 16, 2005

Author(s)

Jason D. Averill

Tall buildings present a unique and challenging egress environment. The very aspect ratio which makes tall buildings economically desirable accentuates the...

Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster.

October 16, 2005

Author(s)

S S. Sunder

A major scientifically based investigation of the WTC disaster was completed recently by NIST. The investigations establish the technical causes of building...

Are Serviceability Requirements Covered Adequately in Current Codes and Standards?

October 16, 2005

Author(s)

Hai S. Lew

Measuring Interfacial Roughness by Polarized Optical Scattering

October 10, 2005

Author(s)

Thomas A. Germer

Polarized optical scatter measurements yield information that can be used to identify sources of scatter. In this chapter, we review measurements of angle...

Static vs. Dynamic Regenerator Directionality Assignment in OXC Switches: Network Simulation and Performance

October 7, 2005

Author(s)

Kotikalapudi Sriram, David W. Griffith, G Di Lorenzo, Oliver Borchert, Nada T. Golmie

Agile all optical cross-connect (OXC) switches currently use an architecture in which regenerators and transceivers have pre-assigned and fixed directionality...

Infrared Emittance Measurements at NIST

October 5, 2005

Author(s)

Leonard M. Hanssen, Benjamin K. Tsai, Sergey Mekhontsev

A new capability for the measurement of the temperature-dependent emittance of specular samples in the near infrared spectral region has been developed in NIST...

Calibration of a Low Temperature Cable-Less Lightpipe Pyrometer on the NIST Post-Exposure Bake Test Bed

October 5, 2005

Author(s)

Benjamin K. Tsai, Kenneth G. Kreider, William A. Kimes

The advent of the cable-less lightpipe radiation thermometer (CLRT) has resulted in a significant improvement in the accuracy of lightpipe radiation thermometer...

High Speed Fiber-Based Quantum Key Distribution using Polarization Encoding

October 5, 2005

Author(s)

Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua Bienfang, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams, A Gross, E Hagley, J Wen

We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the...

Large-Signal Behavioral Model of a Packaged RF Amplifier Based on QPSK-Like Multisine Measurements

October 3, 2005

Author(s)

Maciej Myslinski, Dominique Schreurs, Catherine A. Remley, Michael McKinley, Bart Nauwelaers

This work presents a large-signal time-domain behavioral model of an off-the-shelf RF amplifier based on QPSK-like multisine measurements. The multisine has...

Generating Cell Arrays in Microfluidic Networks

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Samuel P. Forry, D. R. Reyes, Brian J. Polk, Michael Gaitan, Laurie E. Locascio

Overview of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

P J. Phillips, P J. Flynn, W T. Scruggs, K W. Bowyer, J S. Chang, K Hoffman, J Marques, J Min, W Worek

Over the last couple of years, face recognition researchers have been developing new techniques, such as recognition from three-dimensional and high resolution...

Privacy Operating Characteristic for Privacy Protection in Surveillance Applications

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

P J. Phillips

With the mass deploy of cameras, concern has risen about protecting a person's privacy as he goes about his daily life. Many of the cameras are installed to...

Channel-Adaptive Relaying in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Fading

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Michael R. Souryal, Nader Moayeri

This paper describes an approach for relaying in multihop networks that adapts to the time-varying channel and exploits spatial diversity to mitigate multipath...

Performance Characterization of Decentralized Algorithms for Replica Selection in Distributed Object Systems

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills, C Tan

Designers of distributed software systems often rely on server replicas for increased robustness, scalability, and performance. Replicated server architectures...

Proximity-Based Authentication for Mobile Devices

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Serban I. Gavrila, Vlad Korolev

While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. User authentication is the best safeguard against the risk of...

A Metric for the Comparison of Surface Topographies of Standard Reference Material (SRM) Bullets and Casings

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Jun-Feng Song, Theodore V. Vorburger, Li Ma, John M. Libert, Susan M. Ballou

Based on the maximum cross-correlation function, CCFmax, a new parameter called signature difference, Ds, is developed for verifying the similarity of the 2D...

Sensor Location through Linear Programming with Triangle Inequality Constraints

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Camillo A. Gentile

Interest in dense sensor networks due to falling price and reduced size has motivated research in sensor location in recent years. While many algorithms can be...

Novelty Detection: The TREC Experience

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff, Donna K. Harman

A challenge for search systems is to detect not only when an item is relevant to the user's information need, but also when it contains something new which the...

An Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data from Professional Intelligence Analysts

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Jean C. Scholtz, Emile L. Morse, T T. Hewett

Our goal is to produce metrics for measuring the effectiveness of software tools and environments produced for the intelligence community. To this end we need...

A B C of Statistics for Verification and Validation (V & V) of Simulations of High-Consequence Engineering Systems

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong

We begin this expository essay by reviewing with examples what a typical engineer already knows about statistics. We then consider a central question in...

The DLMF Project: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Daniel W. Lozier

Embedding MPEG-7 Metadata Within a Media File Format

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang

Embedding metadata within a media file format becomes evermore popular for digital media. Traditional digital media files such as MP3 songs and JPEG photos do...

A Study of Linear Joint and Tool Models in Spindle-Holder-Tool Receptance Coupling

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Timothy J. Burns, T L. Schmitz

As a qubit is a two-level system whose state space is spanned by and , so a qudit is a -level system whose state space is spanned by ,..., . Quantum computation...

A Diner's Guide to Evaluating a Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Applications

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos, Jean C. Scholtz

There is a clear need for evaluation methodologies specifically suited to ubiquitous computing applications. Here we investigate a user evaluation framework we...

Indoor Positioning Using Spatial Power Spectrum

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, D Kaspar

A simple technique to estimate the position of a given mobile source inside a building is based on the received signal strength. For this methodology to have a...

MPEG-7: Standard Metadata for Multimedia Content

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang

The XML metadata technology of describing media contents has emerged as a dominant mode of making media searchable both for human and machine consumptions. To...

The Role of Engineering Statistics in a Reference Benchmark Approach to Verification and Validation of Multi-Physics Simulations of High-Consequence Engineering Systems

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Jeffrey T. Fong

We begin this expository essay by reviewing with examples what a typical engineer already knows about statistics. We then consider a central question in...

A Field Study of Two Techniques for Situation Awareness for Robot Navigation in Urban Search and Rescue

October 1, 2005

Author(s)

Jean C. Scholtz, Brian Antonishek, J D. Young

In this paper we examine the performance of robot systems that use two different techniques for situation awareness for operators of robots in an urban search...

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