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Abbreviations

This reference lists abbreviations and acronyms used across the
Base Product Specification (BPS), AI Product Deployment Specification (AIPDS), and AI Product Specification (AIPROD).

It includes both specification-specific terms and related industry standards.

Specifications​

  • BPS → Base Product Specification
  • AIPS → AI Product Specifications (umbrella term for AIPDS + AIPROD)
  • AIPDS → AI Product Deployment Specification
  • AIPROD → AI Product Specification

AI & Data Ecosystem​

  • AI → Artificial Intelligence
  • AGI → Artificial General Intelligence
  • ASI → Artificial Superintelligence
  • LLM → Large Language Model
  • RAG → Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • ML → Machine Learning
  • DL → Deep Learning
  • NLP → Natural Language Processing

Governance & Standards​

  • GDPR → General Data Protection Regulation (EU)
  • HIPAA → Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (US)
  • NIST → National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • EU AI Act → European Union Artificial Intelligence Act
  • ISO/IEC 42001 → AI Management System Standard
  • PMML → Predictive Model Markup Language
  • ONNX → Open Neural Network Exchange

Product Characteristics​

  • SLA → Service Level Agreement
  • API → Application Programming Interface
  • I/O → Input / Output
  • UUID → Universally Unique Identifier
  • URN → Uniform Resource Name
  • URI → Uniform Resource Identifier
  • JSON-LD → JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data
  • RDF → Resource Description Framework
  • SHACL → Shapes Constraint Language (for RDF validation)

Evaluation & Metrics​

  • AUROC → Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve
  • F1 Score → Harmonic mean of precision and recall
  • BLEU → Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (machine translation metric)
  • ROUGE → Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (summarization metric)
  • SHAP → SHapley Additive exPlanations (explainability method)
  • LIME → Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations

Cataloging & Discovery​

  • DOI → Digital Object Identifier
  • OData → Open Data Protocol
  • gRPC → Google Remote Procedure Call (open-source RPC framework)
  • API Spec → Specification of API endpoints, formats, and semantics

Principle: Abbreviations are compressed governance — they anchor shared meaning in shorthand form.