In this article, design and development of smart systems require cooperation of different technical disciplines. This multidisciplinarity represents a challenge for today's ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) standardization environment. This environment has evolved over the years and today comprises a huge variety of hundreds of Standards Setting Organisations, partly interconnected by a complex network of very diverse types of links and cooperation agreements. Yet, despite this complexity, ICT standardization is still very much monodisciplinary. Moreover, smart systems’ future true ubiquity and the resulting massive societal ramifications imply that societal stakeholders also need to participate in their standardization, thus further complicating the process. Integrating the necessary background information about the current standardization environment with two empirical studies the article sheds some light on the need for, as well as the benefits and issues to be associated with, multidisciplinarity in ICT standards setting. To resolve these issues, the article proposes the deployment of BOMOS, a collection of guidelines that establish a layered set of activities necessary for the management of a standardization process. While this solution may further increase the complexity of the standardization environment, it offers much greater flexibility and caters much better for the multidisciplinary, cross-domain standardization than the current system does.

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智能系统的标准开发——一个潜在的前进方向

在本文中，智能系统的设计和开发需要不同技术学科的合作。这种多学科性代表了当今 ICT（信息和通信技术）标准化环境的挑战。这种环境多年来一直在发展，今天包括种类繁多的数百个标准制定组织，部分由非常多样化的链接和合作协议类型的复杂网络相互连接。然而，尽管如此复杂，但 ICT 标准化在很大程度上仍然是单一学科的。此外，智能系统未来真正的无处不在以及由此产生的巨大社会影响意味着社会利益相关者也需要参与其标准化，从而进一步使过程复杂化。本文将有关当前标准化环境的必要背景信息与两项实证研究相结合，阐明了 ICT 标准制定中多学科性的必要性以及与之相关的好处和问题。为了解决这些问题，本文建议部署 BOMOS，这是一组准则，用于建立标准化流程管理所需的分层活动集。虽然这种解决方案可能会进一步增加标准化环境的复杂性，但它提供了更大的灵活性，并且比当前系统更适合多学科、跨领域的标准化。以及与 ICT 标准制定中的多学科相关的好处和问题。为了解决这些问题，本文建议部署 BOMOS，这是一组准则，用于建立标准化流程管理所需的分层活动集。虽然这种解决方案可能会进一步增加标准化环境的复杂性，但它提供了更大的灵活性，并且比当前系统更适合多学科、跨领域的标准化。以及与 ICT 标准制定中的多学科相关的好处和问题。为了解决这些问题，本文建议部署 BOMOS，这是一组准则，用于建立标准化流程管理所需的分层活动集。虽然这种解决方案可能会进一步增加标准化环境的复杂性，但它提供了更大的灵活性，并且比当前系统更适合多学科、跨领域的标准化。