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NIST Pubs

NSTIC Pilots: Catalyzing the Identity Ecosystem [including updates as of 09-20-2015]

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Katerina N. Megas, Philip Lam, Ellen M. Nadeau, Colin Soutar

Pilots are an integral part of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), issued by the White House in 2011 to encourage enhanced...

End-to-end Demonstration of the Quality Information Framework (QIF) Standard at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2014

March 15, 2016

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, John L. Michaloski, Daniel Campbell, Robert Stone, Thomas Kramer, Curtis Brown, Robert Brown, Gavrai Tatarliev, William Sobel, Lyle Fischer

The "Silos of Quality" in manufacturing can be described as the proliferation of customized quality languages for different stages of production. This quality...

A Compilation of Enthalpies of Formation for Hydrogen-Oxygen (HxOy) Species

March 11, 2016

Author(s)

Donald R. Burgess Jr.

In this work, we have compiled enthalpies of formation for nine hydrogen-oxygen species (HxOy) and selected values for use. The compilation consists of values...

CONTAM RESULTS EXPORT TOOL

March 9, 2016

Author(s)

Brian Polidoro, Lisa Ng, William Stuart Dols

CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Since CONTAM...

SRM 1967a: High-Purity Platinum Thermoelement

March 9, 2016

Author(s)

Karen M. Garrity, Weston L. Tew, Dean C. Ripple

Consisting of a 1 m long piece of 0.5 mm diameter platinum wire, SRM 1967a meets the requirements for a thermoelectric reference material for temperatures from...

Usage analysis of a national internet time service

March 8, 2016

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Sherman, Judah Levine

The Internet Time Service (ITS) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) currently receives over 12 billion time requests per day. ITS...

Characterizing Indoor Air- Quality Performance Using a Graphical Approach

March 8, 2016

Author(s)

Kevin Y. Teichman, Cynthia H. Reed, Steven J. Emmerich

In this paper, we describe and demonstrate a graphical approach to illustrating the indoor air quality (IAQ) performance of high-performing buildings. We start...

Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection

March 7, 2016

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Virtual Machines (VMs) are key resources to be protected since they are the compute engines hosting mission-critical applications. Since VMs are end-nodes of a...

Guidelines for the Registration of Two Coordinate Frames

March 2, 2016

Author(s)

Geraldine S. Cheok, Marek Franaszek

The purpose of registration is to obtain the transformation matrix between two coordinate frames. Typically, sensors record positional measurements in their own...

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption:

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Morris Dworkin

Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection:

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

SRM 1967a: High-Purity Platinum Thermoelement:

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

K. M. Garrity, D. C. Ripple, W. L. Tew

SATE V Ockham Sound Analysis Criteria:

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Athos Ribiero

End-to-end Demonstration of the Quality Information Framework (QIF) Standard at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2014:

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, John Michaloski, Daniel Campbell, Robert Stone, Thomas Kramer, Curtis Brown, Robert Brown, Gavrail Tatarliev

NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process:

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid

Economics of Community Disaster Resilience Workshop Proceedings

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Bilal Ayyub, Robert E. Chapman, Gearald Galloway, Richard Wright

This report documents the effort launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop, organize, and convene a workshop on the...

Tattoo Recognition Technology - Best Practices (Tatt-BP): Guidelines for Tattoo Image Collection

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother

This document, along with a supplementary poster and a set of instructional slides, provides best practice guidelines for the collection of good quality tattoo...

Reference Correlation of the Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Dioxide from the Triple Point to 1100 K and up to 200 MPa

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

Marcia L. Huber, E.A. Sykioti, Marc J. Assael, Richard A. Perkins

This paper contains new, representative reference equations for the thermal conductivity of carbon dioxide. The equations are based in part upon a body of...

Optimization of Registration Performance Metrics

February 25, 2016

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine Cheok

Perception systems are a very important component of automation and robotics. These systems localize objects in its local coordinate frame and the data has to...

The New Frontiers in Computational Modeling of Material Structures

February 23, 2016

Author(s)

Vijay Srinivasan, Jarek Rossignac, Vadim Shapiro, William Regli

We are witnessing the emergence of a new paradigm in the modeling of material structures. It stems from the digitization of manufacturing and is fueled by...

Current Standards Landscape for Smart Manufacturing Systems

February 23, 2016

Author(s)

Yan Lu, Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette

The future of manufacturing lies in being able to optimize the use of resources to produce high quality product and adapt quickly to changing conditions. From...

Mitigating Ingredient Variability Risks with Smart Manufacturing

February 18, 2016

Author(s)

Frank H. Riddick, Evan K. Wallace, Jim Davis

Managing the design of products and the efficient execution of the manufacturing processes needed to produce them is an endeavor fraught with all manner of...

Implementing Trusted Geolocation Services in the Cloud

February 17, 2016

Author(s)

Michael J. Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Larry Feldman

The bulletin summarizes the information presented in NISTIR 7904, "Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation". The publication explains...

Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification [including updates as of 02-08-2016]

February 11, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

[Superseded by SP 800-73pt1-5 (July 2024): https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957973 SP 800-73pt2-5 (July 2024): https://tsapps.nist.gov...

2011 Wildland Urban Interface Amarillo Fires Report #2 Assessment of Fire Behavior and WUI Measurement Science

February 10, 2016

Author(s)

Alexander Maranghides, Derek McNamara

On February 27, 2011, three fires began in the outskirts of Amarillo, Texas, two of which destroyed or damaged buildings in multiple housing developments. The...

Election Results Common Data Format Specification

February 9, 2016

Author(s)

John P. Wack, Kim Brace, Samuel Dana, Herb Deutsch, John Dziurlaj, Ian Piper, Don Rehill, Richard M. Rivello, Sarah Whitt

This publication describes an election results common data format specification for pre-election setup information and post-election results reporting. It...

2014 NIST Assessment of Phasor Measurement Unit Performance

February 9, 2016

Author(s)

Allen R. Goldstein

The first synchrophasor standard was published in 1995. The standard was revised in 2001, 2005, 2011, and 2014 with evolving performance requirements. In 2012...

Q-matrix: an algebraic formulation for the analysis and visual characterization of network graphs

February 8, 2016

Author(s)

Roldan Pozo

Given an undirected network, we describe a two- dimensional graphical measure based on the con- nected component distribution of its degree-limited subgraphs...

Energy and Economic Implications of Solar Photovoltaic Performance Degradation

February 5, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel, David Webb, Eric G. O'Rear

The Use of Demand-to-Capacity Indexes for the Iterative Design of Rigid Structures for Wind

February 2, 2016

Author(s)

Filmon Habte, Arindam Chowdhury, Sejun Park

Estimates of wind effects on rigid buildings by database-assisted design (DAD) methods can be more accurate than those based on information available in...

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