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Recommendation for Key Management, Part 1: General

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, William C. Barker, William E. Burr, William T. Polk, Miles Smid

[Superseded by SP 800-57 Part 1 Revised (May 2006): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=917474] This Recommendation provides...

CFAST: Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6). User's Guide.

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Walter W. Jones, Paul A. Reneke, Glenn P. Forney

CFAST is a two-zone fire model capable of predicting the environment in a multi-compartment structure subjected to a fire. It calculates the time evolving...

Computer Security Division 2004 Annual Report

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Tanya L. Brewer

This report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2004. It...

Consumer Packaging Labeling Guide: Selling by Volume

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

K M. Dresser

[Withdrawn (February 13, 2018)] Guide is intended to provide manufacturers, packers, distributors, and retailers of packaged products with information about the...

Consumer Package Labeling Guide: Labeling by Weight

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

K M. Dresser

[Withdrawn (February 13, 2018)] Guide is intended to provide manufacturers, packers, distributors, and retailers of packaged products with information about the...

CFAST Consolidated Model of Fire Growth and Smoke Transport (Version 6): User s Guide

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Richard D. Peacock, Walter W. Jones, Glenn P. Forney, Paul A. Reneke

Papers From 1991-2005 Halon Options Technical Working Conferences (HOTWC)

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Richard G. Gann, Star R. Burgess, Kathleen C. Whisner, Paul A. Reneke

Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and...

Overview of the TREC 2004 Robust Retrieval Track

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

The robust retrieval track explores methods for improving the consistency of retrieval technology by focusing on poorly performing topics. The retrieval task in...

Overview of TREC 2004

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Ellen M. Voorhees

This report provides an overview of the thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2004. TREC 2004 was held at the National Institute of Standards and...

Overview of the TREC 2004 Novelty Track

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff

TREC 2004 marks the third and final year for the Novelty Track. The task is as follows: Given a TREC topic and an ordered list of documents, systems must find...

Hydrogen cyanide H¹³C¹⁴N absorption reference for 1530 nm to 1565 nm wavelength calibration - SRM 2519a

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Sarah L. Gilbert, William C. Swann, C. M. Wang

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2519a is an optical-fiber-coupled wavelength reference based on the fundamental absorption lines of hydrogen cyanide H 13C 14N...

Automated Luminance-Meter Control Software for Electronic-Display Measurements

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

John M. Treinen

To make automated measurements of light sources and displays, National Instrument's LabVIEW software is used to control a Minolta LS-100/110 luminance meter...

Proceedings of Defining the State of the Art in Software Security Tools Workshop

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Elizabeth N. Fong

This proceeding is the result of a workshop held on August 10 and 11, 2005 hosted by the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division, Information...

4th Annual PKI R&D Workshop "Multiple Paths to Trust" Proceedings

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Clifford Neuman, William Polk, Nelson Hastings

NIST hosted the fourth annual Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Research Workshop on April 19-21, 2005. The two and a half day event brought together PKI experts...

Effect of Continued Hydration on the Transport Properties of Cracks Through Portland Cement Pastes in a Saturated Environment: A Microstructural Model Study

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Kenneth A. Snyder, Jeffrey W. Bullard

Workshop on Reliability Issues in Nanomaterials

August 1, 2005

Author(s)

Robert Keller, David T. Read, Roop L. Mahajan

The Workshop on Reliability Issues in Nanomaterials was held at the Boulder Laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on August...

Protecting Sensitive Information That is Transmitted Across Networks: NIST Guidance for Selecting and Using Transport Layer Security Implementations

July 29, 2005

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes guidance and information that was published by NIST to help organizations select and implement transport level security, making...

Intelligent Plane as a Mapping Mechanism for User Level Performance Optimization: A Case of Reliable Services Over Unreliable Network

July 28, 2005

Author(s)

Vladimir V. Marbukh

This paper proposes a framework for balancing competing user level requirements by resolving the corresponding trade-offs in a distributed system with limited...

Initial Evaluation of Displacement Ventilation and Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems for U.S. Commercial Buildings

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, Timothy P. McDowell

Conventional heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems in commercial buildings meet both outdoor air ventilation and space conditioning...

Exploration of Potential Energy Saving From Smart Appliances

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Natascha S. Milesi-Ferretti

Technological innovations coupled with the decreasing costs of sensors have brought about a new generation of Smart appliances. While current sensor-based...

Guidelines for the Certification and Accreditation of PIV Card Issuing Organizations

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Dennis K. Branstad, Alicia Clay Jones, Joan Hash

[Superseded by SP 800-79-1 (June 2008): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=152182] Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD...

Smart Cards and Mobile Device Authentication: an Overview and Implementation

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Wayne Jansen, Serban I. Gavrila, Clement Seveillac, Vladimir Korolev

The use of mobile handheld devices within the workplace is expanding rapidly. These devices are no longer viewed as coveted gadgets for early technology...

Two Finger Matching with Vendor SDK Matchers

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Craig I. Watson, Charles L. Wilson, Michael D. Indovina, Brian J. Cochran

This report is an extension of the NIST Studies of one-to-one Fingerprint Matching with Vendor SDK Matchers which evaluated the accuracy of SDK (Software...

A Review of Building Evacuation Models

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Richard D. Peacock

Evacuation calculations are increasingly becoming a part of performance-based analyses to assess the level of life safety provided in buildings. In some cases...

Network for Pervasive Computing

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Kevin L. Mills

Horizontal Convective Boiling of Refrigerants and Refrigerant Mixtures Within a Micro-Fin Tube

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

L J. Hamilton, Mark A. Kedzierski, M P. Kaul

This paper presents local convective boiling measurements in a micro-fin tube for four pure refrigerants: R22, R32, R125, and R134a; and four refrigerant...

Chaotic Scattering and Escape Times of Marginally Trapped Ultracold Neutrons

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Kevin Coakley, J M. Doyle, S N. Dzhosyuk, L Yang, Paul R. Huffman

We compute classical trajectories of ultracold neutrons (UCNs) in a superconducting Ioffe-type magnetic trap using a symplectic integration method. We find that...

Data Transfer Strategy for Machine Shop Simulation

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Yung-Tsun Lee, Yan Luo

Manufacturing simulation systems normally provide interfaces for data import and export using proprietary formats. Dependent data interfaces limit simulation...

Semiconductor Microelectronics and Naoelectronics Programs

July 1, 2005

Author(s)

Stephen Knight, Joaquin (. Martinez, Michele L. Buckley

The microelectronics industry supplies vital components to the electronics industry and to the U.S. economy, enabling rapid improvements in productivity and in...

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