A low-priority class used for bulk monitoring data, configured with an energy-aware utility function and hybrid replication.
To facilitate the sharing of uncertainty-aware geospatial utility data in downstream applications, the authors created an uncertainty-aware utility data model illustrated in Figure 7.
It was also found that having a practical object-oriented, open access, and uncertainty-aware utility data model was critical to the sharing of utilities data and its inherent uncertainties with downstream applications.
This section also presents an error-aware utility data model in the format of Universal Modeling Language (UML) and its implementation of Extensible Markup Language or XML (Cypas et al. 2006) model for data transfer and sharing with downstream visualization and analysis, given its flexibility, extensibility, and compatibility with open-source requirements.
While CHARON supports an unlimited number of classes, in the vast majority of cases two will be sufficient: (i) A low-priority class used for bulk monitoring data, configured with an energy-aware utility function and hybrid replication (ii) A high-priority class used for urgent alarm data, configured with no utility function and multicopy replication. .
The main contribution of this work is the design of an adaptive channel and queue-aware, utility-based scheduling metric, the advantage of which lies in the periodic adaptation of priority weights based on the application of specific characteristics.
Such a model echoes the dynamic nature highlighted in Figure 6. Figure 7 The uncertainty-aware utilities data model.
Such a data model could also serve as the base for management and sharing of uncertainty-aware utilities data from a life cycle perspective.
The authors explored XML based data schemes such as the Geography Markup Language (GML) (Burggraf 2006) and CityGML, an extension to GML for the built environment (Kolbe et al. 2008); and created an XML-based model (Figure 8) as an implementation of the uncertainty-aware utilities data model in Figure 7.
I'm aware that utility companies have had automated phone systems for some time – but surely this is the world's first android spokesman?
Yet as readers of this journal are well aware, the utility of simplifying models is paid for by their power to explain more complex facts (Maynard Smith 1982: 9).
