We have developed OWL ontologies for the ISO/OGC model for Observations, and for other standard geographic information schemas (geometry, time, metadata) upon which it depends. Translation from the original UML to OWL follows the ISO 19150-2 rules. The ontologies have been prepared standalone, to respect the ‘upper ontology’ implied by the ISO UML profile and ISO General Feature Model, and thus...

Experiences are reported in the use of ISO 15504 both in tailoring the standard for particular industrial sectors and in expanding the process assessment approach into new domains. In particular, three projects are discussed: • SPiCE for SPACE, a ISO/IEC TR 15504 [IS98a] conformant method of software process assessment developed for the European space industry, • SPiCE-9000 for SPACE, an assess...

To help identify the strengths of proposed software measurement methods, this paper proposes an analytical approach based on metrology concepts documented in the ISO International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms in Metrology. This approach is illustrated with a case study using one specific functional size measurement method recognized as an ISO standard: COSMIC-FFP (ISO 19761). The case ...

The ISO/IEC 17799 standard (2005) is commonly viewed as a necessary element in information security management. However, there is no empirical evidence of the usefulness of the standard in practice. To study this issue, this study analyses the implementation experiences of four organisations that have implemented the ISO/IEC 17799 (2005) standard. Through semi-structured interviews, the results...

The Common Logic (CL) ISO standard has been officially published and available. While its focus goes beyond the conceptual structures community, one of its components is an interchange format for conceptual graphs. Now the community has an opportunity to leverage the standard for tool usage. Current tools that support pre-ISO versions must now support the standard. Future tools will be much mor...

The ISO 6579:2002/Amd 1:2007 (ISO) standard has been the bacteriological standard method used in the European Union for the detection of Salmonella spp. in pig mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN), but there are no published estimates of the diagnostic sensitivity (Se) of the method in this matrix. Here, the Se of the ISO (Se(ISO)) was estimated on 675 samples selected from two populations with differe...

Since the release of ISO 14001 in 1996, China has witnessed a surge in the number of ISO 14001 certification. As an international environmental standard, ISO 14001 has two basic functions: one is playing as an environmental management instrument, while the other as a signal of firms’ better environmental performance to stakeholders. Based on the stakeholder theory, we have examined the effects ...

ISO 9000 is the most popular and widely adopted meta-standard for quality and operational improvements in manufacturing supply chains. However, few studies have quantitatively examined its impact on supply chain efficiency. In this paper we measure the material and cash flow efficiency of ISO 9000 certified firms in terms of inventory days and account receivable days. We analyzed changes in the...

The first Technical Note in this series [1] introduced the international standard ISO 10303, informally known as STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data). Subsequent Technical Notes discussed various issues faced by users of STEP and how the ISO TC184/SC4 committee is addressing these issues. This paper presents the current move to modularize the STEP application protocol architec...

In this paper, an alignment meta-model is presented that can be used as a common basis to compare arbitrary alignment models. To this end, we describe how existing alignment product models can be mapped to the proposed meta-alignment model. In addition, we define quality metrics of a well-performing alignment model, which can be used to evaluate different design alternatives for alignment model...