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NIST Pubs

An Industrial Control System Cybersecurity Performance Testbed

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Timothy A. Zimmerman, Keith A. Stouffer

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a cybersecurity performance testbed for industrial control systems. The goal of the...

National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen D. Quinn, Murugiah P. Souppaya, Melanie Cook, Karen Scarfone

[Superseded by SP 800-70 Rev. 3 (December 2015, updated 12/8/2016): https://www.nist.gov/node/1125056?pubid=922414 ] A security configuration checklist is a...

Predicting Robot System Performance by Measuring and Composing Subsystem Attributes

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Michael O. Shneier

A robotic system typically consists of a number of subsystems, for example for sensing, manipulation, and motion. Performance measurements are frequently...

Electronic Health Record Design Considerations in Responding to Incidences of Highly Infectious Diseases: Clinical Workflows and Exception Handling

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Svetlana Z. Lowry, Mala Ramaiah, Emily S. Patterson, Latkany A. Paul, Debora Simmons, David Brick, Michael C. Gibbons

Adoption of Electronic Health Record systems in all care settings has become widespread. EHRs can support and revolutionize the way that public health is...

Measuring and Representing the Performance of Manufacturing Assembly Robots

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Michael O. Shneier, Elena R. Messina, Craig I. Schlenoff, Frederick M. Proctor, Thomas Kramer, Joseph Falco

With the growth of robotic technology, there is a need for performance measures to characterize and compare robots and to help determine which features are most...

Tools for Robotics in SME Workcells: Challenges and Approaches for Calibration and Registration

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Jeremy Marvel, Elena R. Messina, Brian Antonishek, Karl Van Wyk, Lisa J. Fronczek

An overview of the challenges associated with robot workcell calibration and registration is presented, with a particular focus on the challenges faced by small...

Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Michael Bartock, Murugiah Souppaya, Raghuram Yeluri, Uttam Shetty, James Greene, Steve Orrin, Hemma Prafullchandra, John McLeese, Jason Mills, Daniel Carayiannis, Tarik Williams, Karen Scarfone

This publication explains selected security challenges involving Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing technologies and geolocation. It then...

Investigating the Impact of Standards-Based Interoperability for Design to Manufacturing and Quality in the Supply Chain

December 9, 2015

Author(s)

Kevin Fischer, Phil Rosche, Asa Trainer, Allison Barnard Feeney, Thomas D. Hedberg Jr.

To achieve industry's vision of the Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), the MBE strategy must include model-centric data interoperability for design to manufacturing...

Smart Electronic Laboratory Notebooks for the NIST Research Environment

December 2, 2015

Author(s)

Richard S. Gates, Mark McLean, William A. Osborn

Laboratory notebooks have been a staple of scientific research for centuries for organizing and documenting ideas and experiments. Modern laboratories are more...