Standards in Information Technology and Industrial Control: Contributions from IFIP Working Group 5.4 1988

Standards play an ever increasing and important role in all aspects of the application of information technologies to communications and industrial control. They are an absolute necessity to control and channel the rapidly expanding proliferation of technologies in this field and to assure the present and future compatibility of systems produced by different companies and in different countries or even of the future products of the same manufacturing company. Thus they are an inseparable accompanying factor for all of the present intense industrial, multiform developmental activity in all aspects of the information technologies. The primary motivation of this workshop was to influence the less industrialized and therefore less computerized countries to become more involved in this important part of their future. The volume also reports on many of the ongoing technical developments being worked on as future standards for information technology in the industrial control field. The book therefore aims to contribute to today's knowledge of standards and norms in various fields of advanced information technology. Economic aspects have been approached from a global viewpoint, both from an administrative and an industrial perspective. It presents the state of the art in standards and their influence in economy and research.Malagardis, N. E. is the author of 'Standards in Information Technology and Industrial Control: Contributions from IFIP Working Group 5.4 1988', published 1988 under ISBN 9780444704030 and ISBN 0444704035.