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NIST Pubs

Report of the 103rd national conference on weights and measures:

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Breyanna Blackwell, Tina Butcher, Richard Harshman, David Sefcik, Lisa Warfield

Multifactor authentication for e-commerce:

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

William Newhouse

Internet of things workshop report:

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Alison Kahn, Marc Leh, Brianna Vendetti

Proceedings of the 10th model-based enterprise summit (MBE 2019):

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas Hedberg, Mark Carlisle

The model based enterprise::a literature review of costs and benefits for discrete manufacturing

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

The manufacturing cost guide::a primer beta version 0.1

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Douglas S Thomas

NVLAP Calibration Laboratories:

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Barbara Belzer, Kari K Harper, Titilayo Shodiya

Protecting the Integrity of Internet Routing: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Origin Validation

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

William A. Haag Jr., Douglas C. Montgomery, Allen Y. Tan, William C. Barker

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the default routing protocol to route traffic among internet domains. While BGP performs adequately in identifying viable...

Guide Brief 14 - Forming a Collaborative Planning Team and Engaging the Community

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

The purpose of this Guide Brief is to provide information that communities may use to accomplish the first step of the Guide: forming a collaborative planning...

Guide Brief 15 - Additional Applications of the Community Resilience Planning Guide

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

Community Resilience Program NIST

This Guide Brief provides examples of how the NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide can also be used for resilience planning at the state, regional, county...

Use and Validation of the Slope Determination by the Analysis of Residuals (SDAR) Algorithm

June 25, 2019

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

The Slope Determination by the Analysis of Residuals (SDAR) algorithm has recently been standardized in ASTM E3076-18 for the determination of the slope in the...

Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks

June 25, 2019

Author(s)

Katie Boeckl, Michael Fagan, Bill Fisher, Naomi Lefkovitz, Katerina N. Megas, Ellen M. Nadeau, Benjamin M. Piccarreta, Danna G. O'Rourke, Karen A. Scarfone

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving and expanding collection of diverse technologies that interact with the physical world. Many organizations...

Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Enrollment Set Size Variability

June 24, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory P. Fiumara, Kenneth Ko, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate

In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge...

Detailed Derivations of Formulae for Heat Release Rate Calculations Revisited: A Pedagogical and Systematic Approach

June 24, 2019

Author(s)

Jiann C. Yang

We revisit the derivations of the formulae for heat release rate calculations based on the oxygen consumption principle. We use a systematic, structured, and...

pyMCR: A Python Library for Multivariate Curve Resolution Analysis

June 24, 2019

Author(s)

Charles H. Camp

In this work, a new software library is presented for performing multivariate curve resolution (MCR)analysis, a chemometric method for elucidating signatures of...

Simulation and Analysis Plan to Evaluate the Impact of CO Mitigation Requirements for Portable Generators

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, Brian J. Polidoro, Matthew J. Brookman, Janet Buyer, Matthew Hnatov

This report was written by staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC, the...

Carbon Monoxide Concentrations and Carboxyhemoglobin Profiles from Portable Generators with a CO Safety Shutoff Operating in a Test House

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Steven J. Emmerich, Stephen M. Zimmerman, Steven J. Nabinger, Matthew J. Brookman

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is focused on addressing the hazard of acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning of consumers from portable...

Interoperability of real-time public safety data: Challenges and possible future states

June 19, 2019

Author(s)

Britta M. Voss, Eric W. Anderson

The proliferation of advanced data sharing technologies and the emergence of a national public safety broadband network (NPSBN) are revolutionizing the...

Estimating real-time infiltration for use in residential ventilation control

June 18, 2019

Author(s)

Lisa Ng, Stephen M. Zimmerman, Jeremy Good, Brian Tool, Steven Emmerich, Andrew Persily

Minimum outdoor air ventilation rates specified in standards such as ASHRAE Standard 62.2 are generally based on envelope airtightness, building floor area...

Attribute Considerations for Access Control Systems

June 18, 2019

Author(s)

Chung Tong Hu, David F. Ferraiolo, David Kuhn

Attribute-based access control systems rely upon attributes to not only define access control policy rules but also enforce the access control. Attributes need...

Assessing the Performance of Residential Energy Management Control Algorithms: Multi-Criteria Decision Making Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (Revision 1)

June 6, 2019

Author(s)

Farhad Omar

For homes to become active participants in a smart grid, intelligent control algorithms are needed to facilitate autonomous interactions that take homeowner...

IREX IX Part 2: Multispectral Iris Recognition

June 5, 2019

Author(s)

George W. Quinn, Patrick J. Grother, James R. Matey

A Methodology for Enabling Forensic Analysis Using Hypervisor Vulnerabilities Data

June 5, 2019

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera, Changwei Liu

Hardware/Server Virtualization is a key feature of data centers used for cloud computing services and enterprise computing that enables ubiquitous access to...

Economic Benefits of the Global Positioning System (GPS)

June 3, 2019

Author(s)

Alan C. O’Connor, Michael P. Gallaher, Kyle Clark-Sutton, Daniel Lapidus, Zack T. Oliver, Troy J. Scott, Dallas W. Wood, Manuel A. Gonzalez, Elizabeth G. Brown

The focus of our analysis was on the estimation of the economic benefits of GPS to the U.S. private sector. We provide estimates from two perspectives. First...

Overview and Analysis of Technology Transfer from Federal Agencies and Laboratories

June 3, 2019

Author(s)

Albert N. Link, Zachary T. Oliver, Gretchen B. Jordan, Christopher Hayter

The purpose of this report is to present a series of analyses of technology transfer activities across federal agencies and their research laboratories.