Developing autonomic properties for distributed pattern-recognition systems with ASSL: A Distributed MARF case study

  • Authors:
  • Emil Vassev;Serguei A. Mokhov

  • Affiliations:
  • Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland;Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Computational Science XV
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We discuss our research towards developing special properties that introduce autonomic behavior in distributed pattern-recognition systems. In our approach we use ASSL (Autonomic System Specification Language) to formally develop such properties for DMARF (Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework). These properties enhance DMARF with an autonomic middleware that manages the four stages of the framework's pattern-recognition pipeline. DMARF is a biologically inspired system employing pattern recognition, signal processing, and natural language processing helping us process audio, textual, or imagery data needed by a variety of scientific applications, e.g., biometric applications. In that context, the notion go autonomic DMARF (ADMARF) can be employed by autonomous and robotic systems that theoretically require less-to-none human intervention other than data collection for pattern analysis and observing the results. In this article, we explain the ASSL specification models for the autonomic properties of DMARF.