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Subject: Revised Design Goals of Behavioral Metadata Section, to be voted on today



Everyone,

On the last UIMA telecon it was agreed that I would revise the Design Goals section of the Behaviroa Metadata spec element based on our discussions.  Here is that revision, which we may vote on in today's telecon:


The Behavioral Metadata of an analytic declaratively describes what the analytic does; for example, what types of CASs it can process, what elements in a CAS it analyzes, and what sorts of effects it may have on CAS contents as a result of its application.

The primary goals that this spec element is trying to achieve are:
1. Support composition either by a human developer or an automated process.
a. Analytics should be able to declare what they do in enough detail to assist manual and/or automated processes in considering their role in an application or in the composition of aggregate analytics.
b. Analytics’ Behavioral Metadata should enable an application or aggregate to detect “invalid” compositions/workflows (e.g., a workflow where it can be determined that one of the Analytic’s preconditions can never be satisfied by the preceding Analytic).

2. Facilitate efficient sharing of CAS content among cooperating analytics. If analytics declare which elements of the CAS (e.g., views) they need to receive and which elements they do not need to receive, the CAS can be filtered or split prior to sending it to target analytics, to achieve transport and parallelization efficiencies respectively.

3. Provide a mechanism for the caller of an Analytic to direct that Analytic to operate on a subset of the CAS.  For example, an Analytic’s Behavioral Metadata says it can analyze any object of type TextDocument (that is, TextDocument is the type of Sofa that it accepts).  The CAS may contain multiple TextDocuments.  The caller may want do direct the analytic to process only one of them.




Here's my full summary document for the Behavioral Metadata element, updated to include these goals:


-Adam
_____________________________
Adam Lally
Advisory Software Engineer
UIMA Framework Lead Developer
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY, 10532
Tel: 914-784-7706,  T/L: 863-7706
alally@us.ibm.com

BehavioralMetadata_summary_v2.doc



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