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From: Dominik P. <dom...@ni...> - 2004-03-04 22:29:48
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Hi everybody, I hope everyone is doing well. At the last AnIML Working Group meeting, we discussed wanting to allow multiple, single "allowed values" for parameter values in the technique layer. Instead of multiple, single "AllowedValue" values, we might do better to allow ranges of "AllowedValue" values. For example, with temperature it would be better to allow this "AllowedValue" to range between a minimum value and a maximum value. To specify a single value we would have to put the value in both, Min and Max fields or maybe the Max field would be empty. But this is a design detail that is not so important at this point. The usage of that could be for vendors to specify their devises in their vendor extensions if they want. On another subtopic, shouldn't we add a flag (attribute) to "AllowedValue" to reverse it's sense and let us list non-allowed values? This wouldn't cost us much, and it gives us more flexibility in designing techniques. To promote better understanding, we might choose to rename the "AllowedValue" to maybe "RestrictedRange" or "QualifiedRange." In addition, do we need a similar notation for vectors? It would be nice to get some more ideas about this. Hope to hear from you, Dominik ------------------------------------------------ Dominik Poetz U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive 227/A157, MS 8394 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Phone: 301-975-4645 Fax: 301-977-0587 Email: dom...@ni... ------------------------------------------------ |