Glossary

Block

A unit part of a workflow that can perform unit tasks such as object instantiation or method execution,…

Bot

Digitalization of a process including the writing of generic knowledge and a workflow to describe the Know-How.

Deserialization

Writing a web compliant object (str) into a python object (in our case). A first stage is a standard transformation from a JSON (string) to a dictionary and python’s builtins. Second stage is DessiaObject’s dict_to_object method that recursively transforms a dictionary into an object. This enables communication between python and our platform.

DessiaObject

Framework base class that provides utilities for the use user classes on platform.

PhysicalObject

An extension of DessiaObject that denotes an object that can be displayed in 3D.

Platform

Dessia’s software solution based on a Web interface and a backend that emulates Python.

Pipe

Links workflow blocks in order to pass data between them.

Schema

A schema is a web compliant represetation of a class or method/function structure. It describes what attributes of which types are need to create an instance or run a function, or which ones are constitutive of the class structure.

SDK

Set of Python libraries allowing to write in low-code the Know-That bricks (generic knowledge).

Serialization

Writing a python (in our case) object in a web compliant language (str). A first stage is DessiaObject’s to_dict method that recursively transforms an object into its dictionary represention. Second stage is a standard transformation from a dictionary and python’s builtins into a string. This enables communication between python and our platform.

Workflow

A class that enables user to automate engineering process. It is composed of blocks and pipes and can have cascading workflows in it.