Software research

News and Updates

NIST Releases Latest Software for Modeling Manufacturing Systems

August 1, 2023

NIST released its newest software version of SimPROCESD , or Simulated-Production Resource for Operations and Conditions Evaluation to Support Decision-Making

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Spotlight: The Runaway Hit for Software Testing

June 30, 2023

It’s a research tool that helps test software more effectively than ever before — including the software that helps keeps cars and airplanes operating safely.

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Spotlight: An Honor From Abroad for the National Software Reference Library

October 18, 2022

Far from home, an official ceremonial constable’s helmet from the United Kingdom rests comfortably in an office at NIST. But why?

Events

2nd International Workshop on FAIR Containerized Computational Software

Tue, Dec 5 - Thu, Dec 7 2023

With the increasing size of collected data, distributed computational environments provide an acceleration option for

Projects and Programs

Compatibility Assessment and Bias Estimation for Standard Reference Materials

Ongoing

NIST produces a number of food-matrix Standard Reference Materials. A problem that frequently occurs in their analysis is one of assessing compatibility of data

Detecting Change Points in Surface Temperature Records

Ongoing

The long records (sometimes over 100 years) of surface temperatures available from meteorological monitoring stations in the Unites States can be a valuable

Quantifying Uncertainty in Accelerometer Sensitivity Studies

Ongoing

To compare the sensitivity of linear accelerometers.

metRology Software Project

Ongoing

The goal of the metRology software project is to provide a set of specialized functions for statistical metrology as a package for the R software environment

Publications

Understanding Stablecoin Technology and Related Security Considerations

September 5, 2023

Author(s)

Peter Mell, Dylan Yaga

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies whose price is pegged to that of another asset (typically one with low price volatility). The market for stablecoins has grown

Impact of Code Complexity On Software Analysis

February 23, 2023

Author(s)

Charles D. De Oliveira, Elizabeth Fong, Paul E. Black

The Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) team studied thousands of warnings from static analyzers. Tools have difficulty distinguishing

Bug, Fault, Error, or Weakness: Demystifying Software Security Vulnerabilities

February 1, 2023

Author(s)

Irena Bojanova, Carlos Eduardo Cardoso Galhardo

In this work, we define the notions of software bug, weakness, and vulnerability in the context of cybersecurity and elucidate their causal relations.

Encouraging and Enabling Mutual Ownership in a RSE Community of Practice

November 21, 2022

Author(s)

Miranda Mundt, Jonathan Bisila, Jonathan E. Guyer, Daniel Howard, Daniel S. Katz, Reed Milewicz, Henry Schreiner, Joshua Teves, Chris Wiswell

The explosion of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) in the United States created the opportunity to form communities of practice (CoP), groups which share a

Software

Biometric Testing Software

NIST/ITL has had a long history of supporting biometric data interchange formats by developing conformance testing software. These suites of software are

The NIST ABACUS

Providing automated, virtual assistance in statistics for chemical analysis The NIST ABACUS ( A pp for B ayesian A nalysis of C hemical quantities U sing S hiny

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