This technical report (TR) is an optional part of the International Standard for Prolog, ISO/IEC 13211. Prolog manufacturers wishing to implement Definite Clause Grammar rules in a portable way should do so in compliance with this technical report. Grammar rules provide convenient functionality for parsing and processing text in a variety of languages. They have been implemented in many Prolog ...

The ISO 9000:2000 family of standards emphasizes continual improvement. As an integral part of the ISO 9004 standard, eight quality management principles are introduced to guide organizational improvement. This paper explains how to use these principles, the customer-supplier model, and the requirement for a well-managed process, to create a comprehensive auditing checklist. In addition to proc...

Sublingual nitroglycerin (TNG) has been introduced as a promising provocative agent for tilt table testing, but it has not been compared directly with the standard isoproterenol (ISO) infusion test previously. We tried to assess the diagnostic value and safety of TNG tilt testing as compared with ISO infusion in patients with unexplained syncope. TNG and ISO tilt tests were performed in tw...

The ISO/IEC 29110 standard: Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities, provides several Process Reference Models applicable to the vast majority of very small entities (defined by the ISO as “an entity (enterprise, organization, department or project) having up to 25 people”) which do not develop critical software and share typical situational factors. An ISO/IEC 29110 pilot project has been e...

The ISO/IEC 29110 standard has at its core a Management and Engineering Guide [1] which are targeted at very small entities (enterprises, organizations, departments or projects) having up to 25 people [2], to assist them unlock the potential benefits of using standards which are specifically designed to address their needs. This paper discusses the role and structure of Project Management in th...

In 2010, ISO published a standard for syntactic annotation, ISO 24615:2010 (SynAF). Back then, the document specified a comprehensive reference model for the representation of syntactic annotations, but no accompanying XML serialisation. ISO’s subcommittee on language resource management (ISO TC 37/SC 4) is working on making the SynAF serialisation ISOTiger an additional part of the standard. T...

In the last two decades several models for evaluating software process capability have been defined and became more and more popular. The application of such models, and in particular the ISO/IEC 15504, determined a general software process improvement in many domains. Nevertheless, the application of the ISO/IEC 15504 standard is still considered by many agile developers as incompatible with a...

In 2006-2008 we performed a case study for the purpose of assessing the industrial application of the seven part Control Centre (CC) design standard ISO 11064 to identify positive and negative experiences among stakeholders in the Norwegian petroleum sector. We mainly focussed on ISO 11064 Part 1, because this was the most commonly used among the identified stakeholders. ISO 11064 is generally ...

In the past, ISO 9001:1994, ISO 9002:1994 and ISO 9003:1994 were the standards used for certifying production organizations, but seldom in educational institutions, although it concerns the quality of products and service. The new standard ISO 9001:2000 introduces process approach to quality management. Definitions for quality in education, and examples of processes, according to ISO 9001:2000,...

This is an annotated bibliography of papers, reports and books pertaining to ANSI/IEEE Std 1471 (now also published as international standard ISO/IEC 42010). It was originally prepared for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 WG 42, the Architecture working group of the Systems and Software Engineering Subcommittee of ISO. WG 42 is the body performing the joint ISO and IEEE revision of IEEE 1471 as ISO/IEC 42010...