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NIST Pubs

Modeling Human Behavior during Building Fires

Author(s)
Erica D. Kuligowski
Evacuation models, including engineering hand calculations and computational tools, are used to evaluate the level of safety provided by buildings during...

Symmetric Key Injection onto Smart Cards

Author(s)
David A. Cooper, William I. MacGregor
This paper describes architectures for securely injecting secret keys onto smart cards. Specifically, this paper details key injection architectures based on...

A Threat Analysis on UOCAVA Voting Systems

Author(s)
Andrew R. Regenscheid, Nelson E. Hastings
This report contains the results of NIST s research into technologies to improve the voting process for United States citizens living overseas. It splits the...

SRM Spotlight

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery
The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new...

Overview of the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Arjen de Vries
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data that reflect the experiences of users in real organizations. This year, the...

Overview of the TREC 2007 Blog Track

Author(s)
Ian Soboroff, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
The goal of the Blog track is to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. It aims to create the required in- frastructure to facilitate...

NDRProfile Schema Version 1.0 User Guide

Author(s)
Joshua Lubell, Betty Harvey, Puja Goyal, Katherine C. Morris
The NDRProfile schema provides a common syntax for exchanging, managing, and reusing XML Schema naming and design rules (NDRs). NDRProfile, used by NIST's...

Calibration of Hygrometers with the Hybrid Humidity Generator

Author(s)
Christopher W. Meyer, Joseph T. Hodges, Peter H. Huang, W Wyatt Miller, Dean C. Ripple, Gregory E. Scace
We describe here the calibration of customer hygrometers using a new humidity generator that has been commissioned at the National Institute of Standards and...

Overview of the TREC 2007 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Diane Kelly, Jimmy Lin
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and ``Other'' questions organized around a...

Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster (NIST NCSTAR 1A)

Author(s)
Sivaraj Shyam-Sunder, Richard G. Gann, William L. Grosshandler, Hai S. Lew, Richard W. Bukowski, Fahim Sadek, Frank W. Gayle, John L. Gross, Therese P. McAllister, Jason D. Averill, James R. Lawson, Harold E. Nelson, Stephen A. Cauffman
This report describes how the fires that followed the impact of debris from the collapse of WTC 1 (the north tower) led to the collapse of WTC 7; an evaluation...

Building Networks and Public Safety Communications

Author(s)
David G. Holmberg, Stephen J. Treado, William D. Davis, Steven T. Bushby, Alan B. Vinh, Michael A. Galler, R Vettori
The Building Networks and Public Safety Communications project has three components: (1) addressing feasibility of using building networks for bridging first...

Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Hoa T. Dang, Jimmy Lin, Diane Kelly
The TREC 2006 question answering track contained two tasks: a main task and a complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) task. As in 2005, the main task...

User's Guide for the Quality of Design Testing Tool and the Content Checker

Author(s)
Katherine C. Morris, Simon P. Frechette, Puja Goyal, Joshua Lubell, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Salifou Sidi Malick, Nicolas Brayard, Severin Tixier
This document describes the operation and usage of the Quality of Design and the Content Checker Testing Tools. These tools were developed at the National...

Standards Development for Gas Phase Air Cleaning Equipment in Buildings

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Cynthia H. Reed, Stephanie S. Watson, Nicos Martys, Edward J. Garboczi, Heather Davis
Concerns about building security have resulted in increasing interest in gas phase air cleaning (GPAC) and the need for standard methods to determine the...
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