Web service composition has been the subject of a number of standardisation initiatives. These initiatives have met various difficulties and had mixed degrees of success, and none of them has yet attained both de facto and de jure status. This paper reviews two of these initiatives with respect to a framework wherein service composition is approached from multiple interrelated perspectives. One...

Biometrics is a challenging industry with a huge market potential. Technologies in the area are becoming mature, and various standards are about to be established. After a brief review of the status of international activities of biometrics standardisation, the activities of the Biometrics Working Group of the Security and Privacy Standards Technical Committee will be described. The article wil...

For several decades, immunohistochemistry (IHC), more specifically diagnostic IHC (dIHC), has been considered an art rather than a laboratory test. There was no clarity about what test performance characteristics are relevant to dIHC, test performance characteristics were not fully defined for dIHC and partly as a consequence of that, there were no standardised controls or reference standards. ...

Conformity and standardisation, new approach, industries under new approach Abstract: In January 2002 a study was started entitled Standards in the Service Sectors-An Explorative Study. The resulting report is now published and a copy is attached. The report contains policy conclusions about the role of standardisation in services. Note: The report expresses the views of the contractor and does...

With the explosion of digital crime, digital forensics is more often applied. The digital forensic discipline developed rather rapidly, but up to date very little international standardisation with regard to processes, procedures or management has been developed. This article provides a brief overview of the current international standards in the digital forensics domain. It describes the neces...

The benefits or standardisation for interoperability and a description of the organisational structure and standardisation process of ISO is presented. The role of architecture and API standards at different stages in the technology life cycle are described. Examples of the development of open standards are taken from graphics, and the WWW to show the role of standardising different aspects of ...

This paper tentatively presents a proposal to develop an Enterprise Operating System (EOS), with the focus on the requirements for potential standardisation. The proposed EOS will behave in the same way as an Operating System of the computer, but under enterprise context and system wide. At first some basic concepts and definitions will be given. Then an overview of relevant works relating to E...

We first present a new proof for the standardisation theorem, a fundamental theorem in Acalculus. Since our proof is largely built upon structural induction on lambda terms, we can extract some bounds for the number of reduction steps in the standard reduction sequences obtained from transforming any given reduction sequences. This result sharpens the standardisation theorem and establishes a l...

Purpose The paper is focused on standards in humanitarian logistics and supply chain. Standards, implemented between organisations, allow improving the interoperability of operations. aims (1) to review a state-of-the-art approach topic by academic community, (2) evaluate current use among organisations (3) investigate perceived need for further specific standards. Design/methodology/approach T...