Glossary

List of frequently used acronyms and their meaning

Term / Acronym	Definition
AAI	Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AI4EOSC	(project) Artificial Intelligence for the European Open Science Cloud
AI4EU	(project) AI on-demand platform to support research excellence in Europe
AI4OS	Software stack powering AI4EOSC and iMagine AI platforms (see https://ai4os.eu/)
API	Application Programming Interface
AWS	Amazon Web Services
CAPPI	Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
CI/CD	Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment
CLI	Command Line Interface
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network
CPU	Central Processing Unit
CV	Computer Vision
CVAT	Computer Vision Annotation Tool (see https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat)
DEEP HDC	(project) Designing and Enabling E-infrastructures for intensive Processing in a Hybrid DataCloud
DEEPaaS API	DEEP as a Service API
DevOps	Development and Operations
DL	Deep Learning
DOI	Digital Object Identifier
EOSC	European Open Science Cloud
EGI	European Grid Infrastructure
EGI Check-In	Authentication service of the European Grid Infrastructure
EU	European Union
FAIR	Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable
FL	Federated Learning
FSS	Fraction Skill Score
GAN	Generative Adversarial Model
GIS	Geographical Information System
GPU	Graphics Processing Unit
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HPC	High Performance Computer / High Performance Cluster
IAM	Identity & Access Management
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IM	Infrastructure Manager
IoU	Intersection over Unit (object detection performance metric)
IPR	Intellectual Property
KER	Key Exploitable Result
KPI	Key Performance Indicators
LLM	Large Language Model
MAE	Mean Absolute Error
mAP	mean Average Precision
ML	Machine Learning
MLOps	Machine Learning Operations
MSE	Mean Squared Error
MVP	Minimum Viable Product
NGO	Non-governmental organisation
NPS	Net Promoter Score
NVFLARE	NVIDIA Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment
OIDC	OpenID Connect (an authentication protocol)
OSCAR	Open Source Serverless Computing for Data-Processing Applications
PoC	Proof of Concept
QA	Quality Assurance
QC	Quality Control
RAE	Relative Absolute Error
RAM	Random-Access Memory (a computer memory)
RDF	Resource Description Framework
RI	Research Infrastructures
RMSE	Root Mean Squared Error
RNN	Recurrent Neural Network
RSE	Relative Squared Error
R&D	Research and Development
SAM	Segment Anything Model
SOTA	State Of The Art
SQA	Software/Service Quality Assurance
SRE	Signal-to-Reconstruction Error Ratio
TB	Terabyte
TF	Tensorflow
UC	Use Case
US	User Story
UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
VGG	a series of neural networks developed by the Visual Geometry Group (Oxford)
VIA	VGG Image Annotator
VM	Virtual Machine
VSCode	Visual Studio Code (IDE for coding)
WP	Work Package
XAI/xAI	eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
YOLO	You Only Look at Once, algorithm for object detection