Published In
Kybernetes
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
2004
Subjects
Reconstructability Analysis, Information Theory, Probabilistic graphical modeling, Multivariate analysis discrete multivariate modeling, Data mining
Abstract
Software packages for reconstructability analysis (RA), as well as for related log linear modeling, generally provide a fixed set of functions. Such packages are suitable for end‐users applying RA in various domains, but do not provide a platform for research into the RA methods themselves. A new software system, Occam3, is being developed which is intended to address three goals which often conflict with one another to provide: a general and flexible infrastructure for experimentation with RA methods and algorithms; an easily‐configured system allowing methods to be combined in novel ways, without requiring deep software expertise; and a system which can be easily utilized by domain researchers who are not computer specialists. Meeting these goals has led to an architecture which strictly separates functions into three layers: the core, which provides representation of data sets, relations, and models; the management layer, which provides extensible objects for development of new algorithms; and the script layer, which allows the other facilities to be combined in novel ways to address a particular domain analysis problem.
DOI
10.1108/03684920410534047
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16495
Citation Details
Kenneth Willett, Martin Zwick, (2004) "A software architecture for reconstructability analysis", Kybernetes, Vol. 33, No. 5/6, pp. 997 - 1008
Description
Authors' version of an article that subsequently appeared in Kybernetes, published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. The version of record may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/03684920410534047.