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Paper: w78-1996-491
| Paper title: | Specification-orientated processing: integrating and sustaining what? |
| Authors: | Toms P |
| Summary: | This paper argues that basic terms, including specification, product, contract and asset are inadequately defined by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Inconsistent identification and representation of decision-making information results, hindering the development of integrated computer handling of information. An improved definition of specification and contract is proposed for a specification-orientated approach to integrated information handling, using definitions of product and asset proposed previously. Inconsistent definitions found in British Standard BSO are discussed to illustrate the problem. Some requirements of a specification-orientated task controller are presented to handle specifications, as defined in the paper, in an integrated and sustainable manner. Limitations met when trying to handle a proliferation of standards are considered. The different requirements of adding-value in production, sustainable production and the regulation of productive activity are outlined. The paper concludes that a review of basic terms should provide a formal definition of the category of information used for decision-making. The term specification is considered to be appropriate. |
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| Year of publication: | 1996 |
| Series: | w78:1996 |
| ISSN: | 2706-6568 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/w78-1996-491.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Toms P (1996). Specification-orientated processing: integrating and sustaining what?. Turk Z (ed.); Construction on the information highway. CIB proceedings, May, 1996 Univ. Of Ljubljana, Slovenia (ISSN: 2706-6568), http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-1996-491 |
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