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Scott W. Rose, Anastase Nakassis, Ramaswamy Chandramouli
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the global lookup service for network resources. It is often the first step in an Internet transaction as well as a network...
A series of experiments are described in which helium was released at constant rates into a 1.5 m 1.5 m 0.75 m enclosure designed as a -scale model of a two car...
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-39, Integrated Enterprise-Wide Risk Management: Organization, Mission...
Christopher Iglehart, Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti, Michael Galler
NIST provides technical support to the DOE in developing test procedures for a variety of residential appliances. As part of this process, DOE seeks...
Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.
A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...
Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.
A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...
J. R. Beveridge, P. Jonathon Phillips, Geof H. Givens, Bruce A. Draper, Mohammad N. Teli, David Bolme
In face recognition, quality is typically thought of as a property of individual images, not image pairs. The implicit assumption is that high-quality images...
Alice J. O'Toole, P. Jonathon Phillips, Xiaobo An, Joseph Dunlop
The intended applications of automatic face recognition systems include venues that vary widely in demographic diversity. Formal evaluations of algorithms do...
David W. Allen, Edward A. Early, Benjamin K. Tsai, Catherine C. Cooksey
This document describes measurement services, instrumentation, and measurement techniques for regular spectral transmittance over the spectral range from 250 nm...
When a weights and measures administrator makes decisions within a specific jurisdiction, it is beneficial to understand the scope of the entire system and to...
P J. Phillips, J. R. Beveridge, Bruce A. Draper, Geof H. Givens, Alice J. O'Toole, David Bolme, Joseph Dunlop, Yui M. Lui, Hassan A. Sahibzada, Samuel Weimer
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Face Challenge Problem was created to encourage the development of algorithms that are robust to recognition across changes in...
Sarah E. Baker, Patrick J. Flynn, Kevin W. Bowyer, P. Jonathon Phillips
We present results of the first systematic study to investigate the degree to which template aging occurs for iris biometrics. Our experiments use an image data...
This report recommends best practices for development and deployment of modeling, simulation and analysis (MS&A) tools for homeland security applications. The...
The purpose of Special Publication 800-39 is to provide guidance for an integrated, organization-wide program for managing information security risk to...
Jack A. Stone Jr., Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Chittaranjan Sahay
A coordinate measuring machine with a suitably small probe can be used to measure micro-features such as the diameter and form of small holes (often about 100...
In video communications the compressed video stream is very likely to be corrupted by channel errors. In order to combat these channel errors, many methods have...
It is desirable to replace Halon 1301, CF3Br, as the fire suppressant used in cargo bay fire suppression. Unfortunately, some candidate agents for replacing...
Fahim H. Sadek, Joseph Main, Hai S. Lew, Stephen D. Robert, Vincent Chiarito, Sherif El-Tawil
This report presents an experimental and computational study of two steel beam-column assemblies, each comprising three columns and two beams. The two beam...
The success of biometric applications is particularly dependent on the interoperability of biometric systems. Deploying these systems requires a comprehensive...
When an emergency occurs, it is not always sufficient to simply initiate alarm bells. Individuals may not know what the alarm bell means and, in turn, may...
Elizabeth N. Fong, Paul E. Black, Michael J. Kass, Hsiao-Ming M. Koo
Software assurance tools are a fundamental resource to improve assurance in today's software applications. Some tools analyze software requirements or design...
This publication provides recommendations for using two vulnerability naming schemes: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Configuration...
David A. Waltermire, Stephen D. Quinn, Karen Scarfone
This document provides the definitive technical specification for Version 1.1 of the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). SCAP consists of a suite of...
Meltem Sonmez Turan, Ray A. Perlner, Lawrence E. Bassham, William E. Burr, Dong H. Chang, Shu-jen H. Chang, Morris J. Dworkin, John M. Kelsey, Souradyuti Paul, Rene C. Peralta
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) opened a public competition on November 2, 2007 to develop a new cryptographic hash algorithm - SHA-3...
Nelson Hastings, Rene Peralta, Stefan Popoveniuc, Andrew Regenscheid
This whitepaper for the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) identifies desirable security properties of remote electronic voting systems...
This glossary of key information security terms has been extracted from NIST Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Special Publication (SP) 800...
Jolene D. Splett, Dominic F. Vecchia, Loren F. Goodrich
We compare methods for estimating the residual resistivity ratio (RRR) of high-purity niobium samples and investigate the effects of using different functional...
Through its Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings project, NIST is taking a lead role in providing science-based guidance to the building community on the...