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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Overview of the TREC 2006 Enterprise Track

Author(s)
Ian M. Soboroff, Arjen de Vries, Nick Craswell
The goal of the enterprise track is to conduct experiments with enterprise data --- intranet pages, email archives, document repositories --- that reflect the

Standard Reference Materials Catalog January 2008

Author(s)
Regina R. Montgomery, Joan C. Sauerwein
NIST Standard Reference materials (SRMs) are used by industry, government and academia to ensure the highest quality measurements. This catalog lists over 1300

0:45 Surface Color

Author(s)
Maria E. Nadal, E A. Early, Robert R. Bousquet
This document, SP250-71 (2007), NIST Measurements Services: 0:45 Surface Color, describes the instrumentation, standards, and techniques used to measure the

Certification of SRM 46H

Author(s)
Chiara F. Ferraris, William F. Guthrie, Max A. Peltz, Robin K. Haupt
The standard reference material (SRM) for fineness of cement, SRM 114, is an integral part of the calibration material routinely used in the cement industry to

Overview of the TREC 2006 Blog Track

Author(s)
Iadh Ounis, Maarten de Rijke, Craig Macdonald, Gilad Mishne, Ian Soboroff
The Blog track began this year, with the aim to explore the information seeking behaviour in the blogosphere. For this purpose, a new large-scale test

Overview of TREC 2006

Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees
This report provides an overview of the fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, TREC 2006. TREC 2006 was held at NIST on November 16-19, 2006. The conference was

Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers

Author(s)
Miles C. Tracy, Wayne Jansen, Karen A. Scarfone, Theodore Winograd
Web servers are often the most targeted and attacked hosts on organizations' networks. As a result, it is essential to secure Web servers and the network

Guide to Secure Web Services

Author(s)
Anoop Singhal, Theodore Winograd, Karen A. Scarfone
The advance of Web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web services based on the eXtensible

Border Gateway Protocol Security

Author(s)
D. Richard Kuhn, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas Montgomery
This document introduces the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains its importance to the internet, and provides a set of best practices that can help in