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.

Boxes of old software stand on a shelf, inlcuding a flight simulator, Dark Souls II and a Kaspersky anti-virus product.

Step Inside the National Software Reference Library

October 18, 2022

More than one billion pieces of software rest in a closely monitored storage facility on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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

Report from the 2nd International Workshop on FAIR Containerized Computational Software

April 30, 2024

Author(s)

Peter Bajcsy, Nathan Hotaling

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is evaluating and improving the specification for achieving interoperability of containerized

Provenience-based cross-verification of digital forensic artifacts applied to NTFS

February 19, 2024

Author(s)

Alexander Nelson, Sheldon Douglas

In digital forensics, file system analysis is a precursor task to event reconstruction. Often, unallocated content within a file system is content of interest

A Smart Network Repository Based on Graph Database

January 25, 2024

Author(s)

Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki, Tao Zhang

To address the increasing complexity of network management and the limitations of data repositories in handling the various network operational data, this paper

Comprehensively Labeled Weakness and Vulnerability Datasets via Unambiguous Formal Bugs Framework (BF) Specifications

January 20, 2024

Author(s)

Irena Bojanova

The current state of the art in software security -- describing weaknesses as CWEs, vulnerabilities as CVEs, and labeling CVEs with CWEs -- is not keeping up

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 ( App for Bayesian Analysis of Chemical quantities Using Shiny) is

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