BIO
KC Morris is a computer scientist in the Manufacturing Systems Integration Division.  Her work involves methods and mechanisms for supporting the specification and development of information interface standards and the testing of those standards.  Currently she is working on projects to develop and test XML Schema-based interfaces.   Earlier in her career she worked on STEP, a.k.a. ISO 10303 The Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data. STEP is a family of ISO standards for product data. She was a primary contributor to the development and validation of STEP's implementation mechanisms. She has architected and contributed to the development of numerous prototypes of the STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI), including NIST's public-domain STEP Toolset. KC has been a technical contributor to the ISO working groups developing STEP and to several industrial consortiums, including FIATECH, PDES, Inc. and National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols Program (NIIIP). Her current research interests include data sharing for engineering and manufacturing including product data management and techniques for managing and testing such systems. She came to NIST after receiving a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1988.

PROJECTS

• Project lead for efforts to create tools for developing XML Schemas to support system integration.  See the project summary and listing of available tools.  (2004+)
  
• Contributor to the AEX (Automating Equipment Information Exchange) Testbed that is working with members of the FIATECH consortium's AEX project to produce a set of  XML schemas that support capital facility equipment engineering, procurement, construction, and operations and maintenance work processes.  (2003-2005)
• Co-Principal Investigator for NIST's Testability of Interaction-Driven Manufacturing Systems (TIMS) project, which developed software testing and design-for-testability methods to cope with the growing complexity of manufacturing system software. (1998-2002)
  
• Principal Investigator for NIST in the National Information Infrastructure Protocols Consortium. The NIIIP effort builds on existing standards (including STEP, OMG, and Internet) to enable the virtual enterprise. NIST has contributed to interfaces for STEP-enabled applications to operate in environments supported by emerging infrastructural standards.  (1994-1997)
  
• Architect and developer for the NIST STEP Class Library software which supports STEP developers and the standardization of STEP implementation methods.
• Technical contributor to information technology standards related to manufacturing and engineering. Active in the development of the STEP Data Access Interface and the C++ and IDL bindings for that interface.
• Pricipal investigator for the DARPA-sponsored Persistent Object Base (POB) Testbed (1991-1995). The testbed project was established to evaluate research projects, to assess requirements for POB technology with respect to manufacturing and engineering, and to identify areas where new standards are appropriate. NIST work focused on the development of the STEP Data Access Interface (SDAI) in the context of POB technology.
  

PUBLICATIONS
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PUBLICATIONS LISTED (Prior to 2002):

• David Flater and KC Morris, "Harmonized Conformance Testing for Product Data Managers," Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society, October 2001., 46-54.
• KC Morris and David Flater, "Design of a Flexible, Integrated Testing System for STEP and OMG Standards," Computer Standards and Interfaces, v. 22, n. 5, 2000, pp. 297-305.
• KC Morris, "Improving PDM Testability Through Standards Harmonization," Proceedings of the Product Data Technology Europe 2000 Conference, (2000).
• David Flater and KC Morris, "Testability of Product Data Management Interfaces," NISTIR 6429, December 1999.
• KC Morris and David Flater, "Standards-Based Software Testing in a Net-Centric World," Proceedings of the 1999 Software Technology and Engineering Practice Conference (STEP '99), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999, pp. 115-122. 
• A follow-on report titled "Specifying Interactions in Integrated Manufacturing Systems" was presented at the 4th International Conference on Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing.
• KC Morris, David Flater, Don Libes, Al Jones, "Testing of Interaction-Driven Manufacturing Systems," NISTIR 6260, December 1998.
• Martin Hardwick, K.C. Morris, David L. Spooner, Tom Rando, Peter Denno, "Lessons Learned Developing Protocols for the Industrial Virtual Enterprise," Journal of Computer-Aided Design, 1998.
• Martin Hardwick, David L. Spooner, Tom Rando, and KC Morris, " Data Protocols for the Industrial Virtual Enterprise," IEEE Internet Computing, February 1997.
• Peter Denno, KC Morris, "Opportunities and Challenges of the STEP Product Data Facility," Proceedings of the DH Brown Symposium on Product Information Management, October 1996.
• Martin Hardwick, David L. Spooner, Tom Rando, and KC Morris, "Sharing Manufacturing Information in Virtual Enterprises," Communications of the ACM, February 1996.
• KC Morris, "Computing Standards Adopted by the NIIIP", chapter 19 of the NIIIP Reference Architecture, NIIIP Report No. NTR96-01, November 1995.
• David Sauder and KC Morris, "Design of a C++ Software Library for Implementing EXPRESS: The NIST STEP Class Library," EXPRESS User Group, October 1995.
• KC Morris, Mary Mitchell, Christopher Dabrowski, and Elizabeth Fong, "Database Management Systems in Engineering", Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, pp 282-308, John Wiley and Sons, 1994. Also published as NISTIR 4976.
• "Overview of the STEP and the STEP Standard Data Access Interface." Published in the Report on Application Integration Architectures (AIA) Workshop, February 1993. Proceedings available as NISTIR 5326, Jan. 1994.
• "Validating STEP Application Models at the National PDES Testbed," May 1993.
• "Data Probe: A Tool for EXPRESS-based Data." Published in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual Engineering Database Symposium - ASME Computers in Engineering Conference - San Diego, CA, August 1993.
• "STEP Toolkit and OODB Evaluation," Copyright PDES, Inc., SCRA, Charleston, SC, November 1992.
• "Validation Testing System Reusable Software Component Design," NISTIR 4937, October 1992.
• "The Use of Application Model Validation in Testing a Proposed Standard," Proceedings of the 1992 ASME Database Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2-6, 1992.
• "A Structural EXPRESS Editor," NISTIR 4903, August 1992.
• "Proposed Persistent Object Base Testbed: Program and Planning," Proceedings of the DARPA Software Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April, 1992.
• "Architecture for the Validation Testing System Software," NISTIR 4742, January 1992.
• "Validating STEP Application Models at the National PDES Testbed," NISTIR 4735, December 1991.
• "Introduction to STEP Data Access Interface Specification," Position paper for the Open OODB Workshop II at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, September 25-27, 1991.
• "Validation Testing System Requirements," NISTIR 4676, September 1991.
• "A High-level Architecture for Implementing a PDES/STEP Data Sharing Environment," Copyright PDES, Inc., SCRA, Charleston, SC, May 1991.
• "Data Sharing Needs of Manufacturing and Engineering," Position paper for the Open OODB Workshop I at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas March 13-15, 1991.
• "Translating Express to SQL: A User's Guide," NISTIR 4341, May 1990.
• "The NIST STEP Class Library (STEP Into the Future)," Proceedings of the C++ at Work '90 Conference, Secaucus, NJ, September 25-28, 1990 and NISTIR 4411.

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