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International standardization in ICT has grown in importance due to the rapid technology development, the increasing need for interoperability, and the global nature of the digital infrastructure. However, technical resources available to international standards bodies have become more limited. With its focus on international collaboration and consensus, the standardization community has not invested significantly in the automation of the process of developing standards. In this paper, we describe potential gains in efficiency with an ontology-based approach and automated reasoning. As part of the exploratory phase of the project, we built a prototype ontology and evaluated the benefits of automated reasoning to improve the process of developing and harmonizing broadly understood ICT assessment standards. The exploratory phase confirmed feasibility and clarified the benefits of the ontology-based approach to standardization, but also highlighted difficulties and unsolved problems in this area.
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https://www.iso.org/committee/45306.html, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 IT Security techniques.
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While this approach is convenient for illustration purposes, preliminary examination of a broader set of documents seems to suggest that the same term may be used for multiple functions. In that case, it may be more appropriate to organize the term hierarchy along other dimensions than the functions themselves.
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In fact, a whole hierarchy of ontology-based languages exist, with varying degrees of expressivity and computational complexity. A thorough discussion is beyond the scope of this paper.
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Certain programs have multiple answer sets. For example, \( \left\{ { p \leftarrow not q. q \leftarrow not p. } \right\} \) has two answer sets, \( \left\{ { p } \right\} \) and \( \left\{ { q } \right\} \), corresponding to two alternative, equally possible views of the world captured by \( \Pi \)..
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We omit the axiom for matching of SDL framework for IoT, which is straightforward.
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Balduccini, M., Vishik, C. (2018). Building Blocks in Standards: Improving Consistency in Standardization with Ontology and Reasoning. In: Cremers, C., Lehmann, A. (eds) Security Standardisation Research. SSR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11322. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04762-7_5
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