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1. [1] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap: Accelerating End-
User Development of Analytic Models
ICSE16-CSED-3, Austin, TX, USA
 ABB Corporate Research / Karen Smiley, Pankesh Patel, and Jeff Harding May 14, 2016

2. [2] May 13, 2016
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Motivation and Context
ABB, Industrial Analytics, & IoTSP
ABB – Industrial sensors, Industrial robots, process control systems, etc.
Blending business solutions with industrial analytics that incorporate deep
knowledge of ABB’s technical SMEs on equipment and verticals.

3. [3] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
Key Goals
 Accelerate creation, reuse, evolution, and
delivery of analytic module plugins
 Minimize SME (Subject Matter Expert) effort to share, evolve,
and reuse knowledge
 Complement (do not reinvent or replace) existing third
party tools and technologies
 Accelerate integration of analytics into ABB
systems and solutions
 Maximize business value of knowledge for ABB customers
 Streamline V&V and deployment of analytic models
Continuous evolution and deployment of advanced
industrial analytics via “end-user development”

4. [4] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
The old lifecycle : solution development
Solution Development
(Domain Engineering and
Application Engineering)
Full software development lifecycle
Installation
and
Configuration
of Integrated
Solution
Run Time!
Customer/User
Solution
Development Team
Solution
 Typical software development scenario:
Solution development teams work across the full
software development lifecycle

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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
The old lifecycle: solution & analytic development
Solution Development
(Domain Engineering and
Application Engineering)
Full software development lifecycle
Installation
and
Configuration
of Integrated
Solution
Run Time!
Customer/User
Solution
Subject Matter
Expert (SMEs)
Analytic Module Development
and Evolution
(Domain-specific or
Application-specific)
Solution
Development Team
Blending business solutions and industrial analytics, SME wrote logic in a flowchart diagram
and hired a developer. The developer iterated with the SME to get the logic right.

6. [6] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
The old lifecycle: integrating analytics into solutions
Solution Development
(Domain Engineering and
Application Engineering)
Full software development lifecycle
Installation
and
Configuration
of Integrated
Solution
Run Time!
Customer/User
Solution
Subject Matter
Expert (SMEs)
Analytic Module Development
and Evolution
(Domain-specific or
Application-specific)
Analytic Module
Integration and
Validation
(Solution-specific)
Validation
of Integrated
Solution
Solution
Development Team
To integrate the module into a solution, the developer iterated with the solution team until they
got it working.

7. [7] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
The old lifecycle: integrating analytics into solutions
Solution Development
(Domain Engineering and
Application Engineering)
Full software development lifecycle
Installation
and
Configuration
of Integrated
Solution
Run Time!
Customer/User
Solution
Subject Matter
Expert (SMEs)
Analytic Module Development
and Evolution
(Domain-specific or
Application-specific)
Analytic Module
Integration and
Validation
(Solution-specific)
Validation
of Integrated
Solution
Solution
Development Team
Months later …

8. [8] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
The old lifecycle: integrating analytics into solutions
Solution Development
(Domain Engineering and
Application Engineering)
Full software development lifecycle
Installation
and
Configuration
of Integrated
Solution
Run Time!
Customer/User
Solution
Subject Matter
Expert (SMEs)
Analytic Module Development
and Evolution
(Domain-specific or
Application-specific)
Analytic Module
Integration and
Validation
(Solution-specific)
Validation
of Integrated
Solution
Solution
Development Team

9. [9] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
The New Lifecycle: Integrating Analytics and Solution
Analytic Module
Development,
Evolution, Verification
and Validation
using SME Workbench
and SME Test Bench
Analytic Module
Integration
using
Solution-specific
deployment
extensions for
SME Workbench
Minutes later …
Development lifecycle for
Analytic Module plugins is
now decoupled from Solution
Development lifecycle!
Run Time!
Solution Developers build and validate Solution and
Solution-specific deployment extensions for SME
Workbench
Solution
Development Team
SMEs
Customer/User

10. [10] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
Example: Creating An Analytic Model
SMEs can drag-and-drop to develop and evolve their Analytic Modules in the SME Workbench

11. [11] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
Example: Deploying An Analytic Model
Analytic Module Integration is supported via
Solution-specific SME Workbench extensions:

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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
Thoughts on Role of End-User Developers in CSED (1/2)
 Enabling runtime integration of end-user components can greatly
increase agility and speed from idea to implementation:
 Empowering an SME as an end-user developer (EUD) eliminates
intermediate documentation, handoffs, and iterations
 Technical SMEs’ ideas can be deployed in minutes, not months
 Solution developers don’t have to wait on SMEs to be able to deliver
X X X
How to measure ease of development, debugging, integration?
Some key elements could be considered while measuring usability.
 SME’s cognitive framework & technical background
 Complexity of the analytic model the SME intends to build
 Learning curve of the toolset

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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
 EUD ecosystem architecture, tooling, and processes are key.
However, there are risk associated with the EUD.
• End-user contribution could potentially have adverse impacts
on functionality or performance such as execution efficiency,
security, accuracy.
• SME created software must be verified and validated.
• EUD toolsets need to provide SMEs with protections & insights
into the quality of modules.
Thoughts on Role of End-User Developers in CSED (2/2)

14. [14] May 13, 2016
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Closing the Gap between SMEs and Solutions
Two Challenges for the CSED Community
[How] can support for end-user development
enhance achievement of CSED goals?
[How] can application of CSED principles and tactics
enhance ecosystems for end-user development?
Continuous
Software
Evolution &
Deployment
End-User
Development
Ecosystems

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