Abbreviations and Acronyms

 
 


ACF

Administration for Children and Families

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AFCARS

Adoption Foster Care Analysis Reporting System

AFDC

Aid to Families with Dependent Children

AKSAS

Alaska State Accounting System

APD

Advanced Planning Document

ASFA

Adoption Safe Families Act

B2B

Business to Business

B2G

Business to Government

CACR

Center for Advanced Computing Research

CAPTA

Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

CDMA

Code-Division Multiple Access

CFSR

Child and Family Services Review

CGI-AMS

Consultants to Government and Industry-American Management Systems

CIO

Chief Information Officer

COA

Council of Accreditation

COBOL

Common Business Oriented Language

CPS

Child Protective Services

CR

Carriage Return

CSE

Child Support Enforcement

CW

Child Welfare

CWS

Child Welfare Services

CWXML

Child Welfare Extensible Markup Language

DCYF

Department of Children, Youth, and Families

DDOS

Distributed Denial of Service

DHHS

Department of Health and Human Services

DHS

Department of Human Services

DMZ

Demilitarized Zone

DoD

Department of Defense

DSS

Division of State Systems

DTD

Document Type Definition

EDGE

Enhanced Data GSM Environment

EMS

Emergency Medical Services

EOF

End Of File

EV-DO

Evolution-Data Only

eWiSACWIS

Wisconsin Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System

FIP

Family Independence Program

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standards

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

G2G

Government to Government

GHz

Gigahertz

GJXML

Global Justice Extensible Markup Language

GPG

Gnu Privacy Guard

GPRS

General Packet Radio Services

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communication

GSM/GPRS

Global System for Mobile Communication/General Packet Radio Services

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 

HR

Human Resources

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ICPC

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC)

ID

Identity

IDS

Intrusion Detection System 

inkML

Ink Markup Language

IP

Internet Protocol

IPSEC

Internet Protocol Security

IT

Information Technology

IV-A

Part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act

IV-D

Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act

JAD

Joint Application Design

JCAHO

Joint Committee on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

JFS

Journal File System

JOMIS

Juvenile Offender Management Information System

JSP

Java Server Pages

LAN

Local Area Network

LF

Line Feed

MathML

Math Markup Language

MEPA

Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994

MMIS

Medicare and Medicaid Information System

Mbps

Mega Bit Per Second

MTG

MTG Management Consultants, L.L.C.

NCANDS

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System

NHPRI

Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island

NIAP

National Information Assurance Partnership

NIST

National Institute for Standards and Technology

OASIS

Organization for Structured Information Standards

OJD

Oregon Justice Department

ORCA

Online Resources for the Children of Alaska

OS

Operating System

OWL

Web Ontology Language

PAN

Personal Area Network

PIN

Personal Identification Number

PIP

Program Improvement Plan

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

PRWORA

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network

QA

Quality Assurance

QoS

Quality of Service

RBAC

Role-Based Access Control

RDF

Resource Description Framework

RD-LAP

Radio Data-Link Access Procedure

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RFP

Request for Proposal

RICHIST

Rhode Island Children’s Information System

ROI

Return on Investment

RSS

Really Simple Syndication

SACWIS

State-wide Automated Child Welfare Information System

SAN/NAS

Storage Area Network / Network Attached Storage

SMS

Short Message Service

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SPSS

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SQL

Structured Query Language

SQR

SQR is a Programming Language for SQL Database Reporting and Information Processing

SSID

Service Set Identifier

SSIS

Social Services Information System – Minnesota SACWIS

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

TANF

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration

UI

User Interface

UR

Utilization Review

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

VPN

Virtual Private Network

WAN

Wide Area Network

WCDMA

Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy

WiMAX

Worldwide Interoperability of Broadband Wireless Products

WiMedia

Media High Data Rate Wireless Multimedia Networking Applications

WLAN

Wireless Local Area Network

WMAN

Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

WPA

Wi-Fi Protected Access

XBase

Defines Base URIs for Parts of XML Documents

XForms

An XML Application that Represents the Next Generation of Forms for the Web

XHTML

Extensible HyperText Markup Language

XIX

Title19

XLink

Specification for Specifying Links Between Documents

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XPath

Language for Addressing Parts of an XML Document

XPointer

Language for Addressing into the Internal Structures of XML Documents

XQuery

XML Query Language

XSL

Extensible Stylesheet Language

XSL-FO

Extensible Stylesheet Language – Formatting Objects