ISLE (International Standards for Language Engineering), a transatlantic standards oriented initiative under the Human Language Technology (HLT) programme, is a continuation of the long standing EAGLES (Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards) initiative, and is carried out by European and American groups within the EU-US International Research Co-operation, supported by EC and...

This article is a follow-up on our previous work examining Canadian chiropractors’ attitudes towards chiropractic philosophy and scope of practice and their implications for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines. In this current study, we examined Canadian chiropractors’ attitudes toward standards of care, the organizations developing them and their relationship to the philosophy i...

Regulatory competition between the US and EU influences the development of the standards that define global ICT networks. Traditional standard-setting organizations that once developed those standards have been marginalized by the rapid pace of innovation in ICT, and informal standard-setting organizations have rushed into the breach. US policy favors informal standard-setting processes and oft...

Open geospatial standards, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and grid computing enable new approaches to publishing and accessing geoscience data and programs. The linkages between three collaborating projects show how the use of standards based service interfaces and protocols is enhancing the capabilities of geoscientists. The first of these projects, “The Solid Earth and Environment Grid ...

Recent advancement in web technology enabled the development of new Business-to-Business (B2B) infrastructures, e.g. based on the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). These infrastructures enable seamless information exchange among different stakeholders and complex business procedures. However, there is still a lack of sufficiently generic and standardized application-level interfac...

As part of the project “Educational standards in vocational schools” the responsible Federal Ministry compiled competence models, descriptors and didactic examples for Informatics in technical high schools (HTL). The implementation of this project implies a paradigm shift for the vocational school system, which requires a new pedagogic foundation. This paper presents a didactical concept, that ...

Today both business analysts and information systems engineers attribute a great potential to Web services as a vehicle to simplify the interoperability of services offered by different organizations in electronic business scenarios. In this paper, the Service Oriented Architecture is explained as the foundation of this new technology. The main implications and benefits of this architecture and...

With the prevalence of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), end-users, who are not familiar with SOA standards and tools, want to customize services to fulfill their daily activities. However, it is challenging for end-users to get involved in the service composition, due to the in-depth knowledge needed for SOA standards and techniques. To help end-users compose services for their daily activi...

This article contributes to the design of a generic framework for providing a new way to exchange information between enterprises. This concept is a well addressed in the context of B2B standards. Many organizations are increasingly searching for adopting these standards to automate data exchange. But the limit of such models resides in the fact that the content of exchange is defined in severa...

Physical non-invasive security has become crucial for cryptographic modules, which are widely used in pervasive computing. International security evaluation standards, such as U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 and Common Criteria (CC) part 3 have added special requirements addressing physical non-invasive security. However, these evaluation standards lack of quantitative...