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NIST Pubs

Information Security Handbook: A Guide for Managers

Author(s)
Pauline Bowen, Joan Hash, Mark Wilson
This Information Security Handbook provides a broad overview of information security program elements to assist managers in understanding how to establish and

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

Author(s)
Eyvon Petty
The Time and Frequency Bulleting provides information on performance of time scales and avariety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST

Healthcare Standards Landscape Users Guide

Author(s)
Elizabeth N. Fong, Roy S. Morgan, Thomas R. Rhodes, Clement Ridoret
The Health Care Standards Landscape Web site is a project to develop and demonstrate a web-based repository of information (called the Landscape) on health

A Taxonomy of Definitions for Usability Studies in Biometrics

Author(s)
Ross J. Micheals, Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Shahram Orandi
Historically, usability research strives to focus on user behavior in a manner that is as system independent as possible. Although ¿ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 Standing

Summary of Latent Fingerprint work at NIST

Author(s)
Vladimir N. Dvornychenko, Michael D. Garris
This paper describes past and present fingerprint activity at NIST. While the primary focus is on latent fingerprints, the paper also surveys relevant general

PHAML User's Guide, Version 1.0

Author(s)
William F. Mitchell
PHAML (Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive MultiLevel) is a Fortran module for the solution of elliptic partial differential equations. It uses finite elements

CONTAM 2.4 User Guide and Program Documentation

Author(s)
George Walton, William S. Dols
This manual describes the computer program CONTAM version 2.3 developed by NIST. CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program

Overview of the TREC 2005 Question Answering Track

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Hoa T. Dang
The TREC 2005 Question Answering (QA) track contained three tasks: the main question answering task, the document ranking task, and the relationship task. In
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