Re: [Poesia-devel] About the DM config file

[Alberto M. <alb...@me...>]

Dear Mohamed,

We upgraded the DM software in CVS.

Now Scores are in range 0..100.

We added a timeout component which forces a decision after a timeout =
interval (defined in configuration file). We added also code to safely =
clear requests list in DM (if a filter doesn't respond immediatly to the =
abort message, but sends a score also after that the monitor receives =
the DM decision).

We modified also install script and poesiamon.xmlc.template in =
SampleConfig directory to add code for installing also a configuration =
file for DM, because last versions of DM can't work without an XML =
configuration file (named DecisorConfig.xml in the template).
Please configure it before using Poesia.

We tested the communication between monitor and DM and we hadn't any =
problem. Probably your problems (shown in another mail) are due to the =
fact that you used the version of install script without the =
configuration file for DM (in that case you should receive a NullPointer =
exception).
In any case, please test our component you too.

Best regards,
    Alberto
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Mohamed DAOUDI=20
  To: Alberto Meta=20
  Cc: tom...@en... ; poe...@li...=20
  Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:59 AM
  Subject: Re: [Poesia-devel] About the DM config file


  Dear Alberto,


  I wish a happy new year,

  Would you please change the range for the scores attributes from =
[0,10] to [0,100] ?

  Best regards

  Mohamed

  Alberto Meta wrote:

    ----- Original Message -----=20
    From: < tom...@en... >
    To: < poe...@li... >
    Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:40 PM
    Subject: Re: [Poesia-devel] About the DM config file


        Dear all,

    Thank you to the M.E.T.A. team for this new version of the DM.
    Here is my feedback. Some remarks are also questions to different
    developpers.

    I think the DM behaviour (and then configuration file) should
    consider the mime-type of the filtered media, because the number
    of scores to wait for depends on it :

    * for image/*, the image filter will be alone to provide a score
    * for text/plain, the image filter will never give a score (for a
      plain text includes no tag), but the text filter will.
    * for text/html, both text and image filters will give a score.
    What about the PICS and url filters ?

    I agree with you. If all filters can add  this attribute, we could =
change DM configuration file and software code to solve the question.

    PICS and URL filters (as javascript) are only usable for html =
content (they process part of the content of an html page).


    About the refer attribute :
    * Where are the italian and spanish heavy filters ?
    * Where is the javascript filter ?

    About the score attribute :
    * The [0-10] integer range is too limited for the image filter
      especially for simplelevel <--> score coherency (for instance
      the [12- gives 'high' for the 'porn' domain and [67-80[ gives
      'medium' for the 'violence' domain
    We prefer keeping the initial [0-100] integer range.It shouldn't be
    difficult for other filters to multiply by 10 if they use a [0-10]
    range at present.
    I agree. I changed the range in 0..10 according with Mohamed =
response to a my previous mail, but obviolusly I can set again the range =
0..100 without any problem.=20
    We can set the new range and I'll inform you when it happens, please =
use simplelevel decision before all filters change their behaviour to =
send scores in the new range.

    Alberto