Verification and Validation of Metadata for Test&Evaluation (VIVALDI)

ABSTRACT: KBSI proposes to develop a Verification and Validation of Metadata for Test & Evaluation (VIVALDI) method and supporting toolkit to enable test and instrumentation engineers and T & E stakeholders to define rules and support the verification, validation, de-confliction and optimization (VVDO) of metadata and systems design relating to multi-vendor test and instrumentation systems. VIVALDI includes the following innovations: a catalog of rules for supporting T & E VVDO that can be used in multi-vendor, multi-range environments; machine understandable and standards based representation of the rule catalog; a controlled natural language for rule capture and translation of the CNL to target rule representation; and an API to support rule representation and evaluation. BENEFIT: No need for committee approval of a new standard, minimizing the time to adopt the approach proposed An intuitive controlled natural language that reduces the barrier of entry for rule adoption and use A catalog of commonly-used rules provides a way for new users to boot strap into the framework without having to write new rules from scratch An architecture that protects the IP and proprietary nature of vendor configuration logic