The new paradigm of personal health demands open standards and middleware components that permit transparent integration and end-to-end interoperability from new personal health devices to healthcare information system. The use of standards seems to be the internationally accepted way to face this challenge. In this article, the implementation of an end-to-end standard-based personal health sol...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has selected biometrics in particular face as the technique for travel documents to verify the association between such documents and the person in possession of them. The International Standard Organization (ISO) has defined a standard for the digital face images to be used in Machine Readable Travel Documents. Due to the ISO/IEC 19794-5 int...

To protect the information assets of organizations, many different standards and guidelines have been proposed. Among them, International standard ISO 17799 is one of the most prominent international efforts on information security. This standard provides both an authoritative statement on information security and the procedures to be adopted by organizations to ensure information security. Sec...

Safety in the automotive domain is becoming more and more important with the ever increasing level of complexity in emerging technologies built-in into the cars. As a stimulus for industry to refine its safety measures related to electrical, electronic and software systems in the cars, the ISO 26262 standard has been recently introduced. Developing safety-related systems according to this stand...

This paper investigates the effects of implementing the international standard ISO 9000 on measures of business and operating performance. Based on the literature and a case study we identified two stages in implementing ISO 9000—(1) Installation, which has two dimensions: (a) external coordination and (b) integration; and (2) Usage, which also has two dimensions: (a) in daily practice and (b) ...

Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to analyze the relationships between the corporate motivations that lead organizations to establish the ISO 50001 Energy Management System (EnMS) standard, and the difficulties and benefits derived from its adoption. Design/methodology/approach: Three independent exploratory factor analyses (EFA) were conducted in order to identify (i) sources of motivatio...

This chapter describes recent and ongoing annotation efforts using the ISO 24617-2 standard for dialogue act annotation. Experimental studies are reported on the annotation by human annotators and by annotation machines of some of the specific features of the ISO annotation scheme, such as its multidimensional annotation of communicative functions, the recognition of each of its nine dimensions...

This paper describes the work currently being undertaken to progress ISO/IEC TR 15504 to the status of a full International Standard, and outlines the changes in design that are to be incorporated in the revision. It describes the inputs for the design decisions that were taken; identifies the fundamental changes in the architecture of the Standard; and briefly describes the current status of t...

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Given this, initiatives have been undertaken in many countries to formulate more or less voluntary rules. But the vast increase in the number of private reference systems based on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) method led to a certain amount of confusion among the various groups in the food industry. In September 2005, after three years of work, ISO published a universal ref...