ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/WG 4 - Use cases and applications

This document provides guidance for identifying the context, opportunities and processes for developing and applying AI applications. The guidance provides a macro-level view of the AI application context, the stakeholders and their roles, relationship to the life cycle of the system, and common AI application characteristics and considerations.

This document defines a set of processes and associated concepts for describing the life cycle of AI systems based on machine learning and heuristic systems. It is based on ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 with modifications and additions of AI-specific processes from ISO/IEC 22989 and ISO/IEC 23053. This document provides processes that support the definition, control, management, execution and improvement of the AI system in its life cycle stages. These processes can also be used within an organization or a project when developing or acquiring AI systems. When an element of an AI system is traditional software or a traditional system, the software life cycle processes in ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and the system life cycle processes in ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 can be used to implement that element.

This document provides a collection of representative use cases of AI applications in a variety of domains.