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Favorite Use Cases List
This is a table of use cases that may be used to drive the priorities for the SSN.
Rather than exhaustively construct and prioritize complete use cases, the idea is to quickly identify the most important ones to the team, at least in broad form. Then if we need to describe some of them in more detail, we can do that.
Most use cases reference the source from which they were drawn.
To Complete
To enter your vote for a particular entry as being important for the SSN ontology to support, add a "+1:" and your initials to the Votes column.
To enter a new use case, review the list of possible use cases, at the bottom of the page, to see if it might already be there. Copy and paste the row of your choice, and edit it to include the correct ID, make your vote the first, and if necessary to correct the description and add a reference.
If no original source exists for this use case, considering adding your own description on a separate wiki page.
Use Cases Receiving Votes
| ID | Name | Description | Source | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Device discovery: general | Find device(s) that meet given criteria | MMI UC 10 | +1:jbg +1:wdk +1:rgc +1:klt +1:vpm +1:ah +1:rga +1:cah +1:mjc +1:hn +1:mh |
| 2 | Data discovery: geospatiotemporal | Find data meeting certain criteria (e.g. temp + geo-temporal constraints |
+1:wdk +1:rgc +1:klt +1:kj +1:ah +1:cah +1:mjc +1:krp +1:mh | |
| 3 | Data discovery: sensor type | Find data from a particular type of sensor | MMI UC 1 |
+1:ah +1:cah +1:hn +1:mh |
| 4 | Device classification: function | Classify devices according to functionality. | MMI UC 2 |
+1:klt +1:ah +1:cah |
| 5 | Provide context: provenance | Learn about data context from sensor information | MMI UC 11 OOI Conops p11 |
+1:klt +1:ah +1:hn +1:krp |
| 6 | Device operation: diagnosis | Diagnose a device's status/problems from its behavior and description | (ex: SWAMO Project, Underbrink) |
+1:vpm +1:ah +1:rga |
| 7 | Device operation: tasking | Command a device's operation using its description |
+1:klt +1:ah +1:mjc | |
| 8 | Device discovery: output | Find devices that can produce certain output variables | MMI UC 4 OOI Conops p11 |
+1:klt |
| 9 | Device discovery: measurable | Find devices that can measure certain real-world properties. | MMI UC 5 |
+1:ah +1:cah |
| 10 | Device discovery: phenomena/blended | Find devices that can measure a phenomenon or measurable, or produce a given output. | MMI UC 13 |
+1:ah |
| 11 | Dataset discovery: general | Find data sets meeting certain criteria (inc. temporal + geo-spatial constraints) | SSG4Env D7.1 (see example on pag. 38) |
+1:rgc |
| 12 | Sensor classification | Classify a given sensor using a hierarchy of sensor types. (For SSN-XG it would also mean to define such a hierarchy of sensor types or to specify an existing one.) |
+1:ah | |
| 13 | Derived Sensors | Specify and orchestrate (or automatically search and compose) sensors as compositions of sensors and processing units (including converting types or units of measurement as appropriate). |
+1:mjc +1:hn |
Candidate Use Cases
| ID | Name | Description | Source | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | System operation: event analysis | Evaluate hypotheses for explaining anomalous sensor readings | Machine reasoning about anomalous sensor data |
+1:fml |
| # | Device documentation: vocabulary | Map device concepts to standard or reference vocabulary(ies) | example vocab: Int'l Vocab of Metrology/VIM |
+1:fml |
| # | Device discovery: host type | Find out devices that can be deployed from given platform. | MMI UC 3 |
+1:fml |
| # | Device discovery: format | Find devices that can supply data in the expected format | MMI UC 6 |
+1:fml |
| # | Device discovery: control | Find devices that can support given commands | OOI Instr Life Cycle p6 |
+1:fml |
| # | Device discovery: method | Identify devices that operate via a given method | MMI UC 7 |
+1:fml |
| # | Device documentation: inferred keywords | Specifying Equipment summary metadata by inference | MMI UC 12 |
+1:fml |
| # | name | description | MMI UC 1 |
+1:fml |
Vote results
The winners of the vote on the Reference Use Cases.