NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Century Computing , a division of AppNet, Inc. , are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments. A key aspect of the object-oriented architecture, implemented in Java, involves software that is driven by the AIML instrument description. The initial effort is targeted at the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne observatory aboard a Boeing 747. AIML also supports role-specific documentation and GUI component generation.
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Benefits Clearly defined interface between hardware and software engineers. Easy to make last-minute changes in AIML description that are incorporated throughout the system. Human readable and machine understandable instrument descriptiom. Example XML file of the HAWC instrument which uses iml.dtd. Please read the NASA Website Privacy Statement .