Developers of AI-Intensive Systems--i.e., systems that involve both "traditional" software and Artificial Intelligence"are recognizing the need to organize development systematically and use engineered methods and tools. Since an AI-Intensive System (AIIS) relies heavily on software, it is expected that Software Engineering (SE) methods and tools can help. However, AIIS development differs from the development of "traditional" software systems in a few substantial aspects. Hence, traditional SE methods and tools are not suitable or sufficient by themselves and need to be adapted and extended. A quest for "SE for AI" methods and tools has started. We believe that, in this effort, we should learn from experience and avoid repeating some of the mistakes made in the quest for SE in past years. To this end, a fundamental instrument is a set of concepts and a notation to deal with AIIS and the problems that characterize their development processes. In this paper, we propose to describe AIIS via a notation that was proposed for SE and embeds a set of concepts that are suitable to represent AIIS as well. We demonstrate the usage of the notation by modeling some characteristics that are particularly relevant for AIIS.
翻译:AI-Instrong Systems-e. 涉及“传统”软件和人工智能的系统开发者认识到需要系统地组织开发和使用设计的方法和工具。由于AI-Instructural System(AIIS)严重依赖软件,因此预计软件工程(SE)的方法和工具会有帮助。然而,AIDS的发展与“传统”软件系统的发展在几个实质性方面有所不同。因此,传统的SE方法和工具本身并不合适或足够,需要加以调整和扩展。开始寻求“AIS for AI” 的方法和工具。我们认为,在这一努力中,我们应该吸取经验,避免重复过去几年在SE追求过程中所犯的一些错误。为此,一个基本工具是一套概念和注释,用以处理ITS及其发展过程所特有的问题。我们提议用为SE提出的注释来描述AS,并嵌入一套适合代表AIS的概念。我们通过模拟与AIDS特别相关的一些特征来说明对它的使用。