Biometric Identity Assurance Services, or BIAS, is a cooperative standards project between the International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1 Subcommittee SC 37 (ISO [8]/IEC JTC 1 SC 37) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) BIAS Technical Committee (TC). BIAS originated as a c...

One of the newest initiatives in the evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) is the specification of standards and technologies to create the Semantic Web. Whereas most of today’s WWW is targeted primarily at human readers, the Semantic Web will support human readers while providing enriched data descriptions to enable software agents to perform automated reasoning, creating a Web of knowledge. I...

Traditional technical manuals consist primarily of text supplemented by tabular and graphic presentation of information. In the past decade technical information systems have increasingly been authored for presentation on computers instead of on paper; however a stable set of standards for such manuals has yet to evolve. There are strong beliefs but little empirical evidence to guide standards ...

Efforts to keep the broadband Internet a free and open public utility are much in the news. In the context of the Network Society, the authors examine some of the publicly stated arguments and positions being taken in the articulation of “net neutrality” and “open source” practices and principles. The article explores the difficult technical challenges present in maintaining “open access” telec...

To cope with current inconsistencies and incompleteness of technical documents, we propose a combined, model-based structured graphical and textual meta-standard approach for specification, verification and validation of complex systems in general and ISO enterprise standards in particular. This methodology, developed under the auspices of the ISO TC 184/SC 5 OPM Study Group, is presented along...

Since nature of architecture is quite different from that of other fields of study, the criteria used forjudging projects in this field continuously undergo some changes. On the other hand, because of the undeniable role ofhuman factors in judging the projects, there is always a percentage of deviation from the standard given the interestsof the judging committee. The standards of judging archi...

Existing literature on IT standards focuses on the role of technical factors such as network effects and competitive behavior on the creation of standards. However, the role of users and vendors in initiating the standards definition and ratification process is less well understood. Given the advantages associated with standards, all users and vendors of IT products would be expected to be glad...

The increasing complexity of technical systems can only be managed by a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach. Besides technical disciplines like aerodynamics, kinematics, etc. cross-disciplines like safety and project management play an immanent role in the Systems Engineering approach. In this chapter, standards from different cross-disciplines are discussed and merged together to elaborat...