The emerging ISO/IEC MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 multimedia standards use XML Schema for digital content descriptions and digital item declarations. They have posed an interesting challenge to XML query language design. The paper shows certain critical query specification issues for MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 XML documents and illustrates a logic method to handle the limitations in current text-oriented XML que...

The use of national consensus standards will be of increased importance to this country as the U.S. economy moves toward more of a global perspective. National consensus standards reflect the opinions of professionals who work at all levels of the public and private sectors in technology development, manufacturing, training, financial analysis, personnel, academia as well as insight from the fi...

Relying on standards is an adequate solution for solving integration problems and saving on investment in software or hardware. There are good opportunities for exchanging standardized components for pieces from another vendor with a justifiable amount of time and money. This is one of reasons for more than 800 companies and institutions joining the Object Management Group (OMG). The OMG sets i...

This chapter introduces major information security management methods and standards, and particularly ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002 standards. A literature review was conducted in order to understand the reasons for the low level of adoption of information security standards by companies, and to identify the drivers and the success factors in implementation of these standards. Based on the findings o...

This article presents some of the characteristics of future service-oriented systems. Also, it focuses on a set of architecture and design drivers for these future serviceoriented systems that can help meet new expectations without sacrificing the loosely coupled, stateless, standards-based characteristics that have driven SOA adoption in many contexts. The article concludes with thoughts on th...

technology developments leading to the architecture and to the selection and definition of new standards for a distributed digital library of geospatial services. Furthermore the paper describes the requirements for the open service oriented architecture, which may form the enabling element of a widely distributed digital library. The paper details how the supporting protocols are being defined...

This paper argues that the Reference-Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is a suitable basis for developing new standards pertaining to domain architectures, common business facilities, and common objects. However, the RM-ODP is difficult to understand, and there appears to be several divergent interpretations of it. This paper proposes and discusses an interpretation of information ...

We present an Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based architecture framework. The architecture framework is designed to be close to industry standards, especially to the Service ComponentArchitecture (SCA). The framework is language independent and the building blocks of each system, activities and data, are first class citizens. We present a meta model of the architecture framework and discu...

Business processes form the foundation for all organizations, and as such, are impacted by industry regulations. Without explicit business process definitions, flexible rules frameworks, and audit trails that provide for non-repudiation, organizations face litigation risks. This requires organizations to review their business processes and ensure that they meet the compliance standards set fort...

AMAJOR PROBLEM IN CONTEMPOrary diabetes mellitus care is the poor translation of knowledge derived from clinical research into routine clinical practice. To improve standards and outcomes of diabetes care, efforts in the followingareas appear crucial: diagnostic procedures and therapeutic management must be evidence-based; patients need to become more actively involved in their disease manageme...