GB/T 18184-2025Vocabulary for commercial automation (English PDF)

3.1 Automation

Machinery, equipment, systems, or processes (production and management processes) operate automatically, with little or no direct human involvement, according to human requirements.

The process of detection, information processing, analysis and judgment, manipulation and control to achieve the expected goals.

[Source. GB/T 44062-2024, 3.7]

3.2 Commercial automation

By utilizing computer technology and software systems, the flow of commerce, logistics, capital, and information in the commodity circulation process can be controlled, thereby achieving...

The process of automating and intelligentizing business processes and operations.

3.3

Computational algorithms and other related technologies (including inductive learning, intentional nondeterministic behavior, rule-based systems, computer vision, and heuristics)

A general description of search patterns and other techniques.

Note. This term is a descriptive term interpreted broadly to cover software that is not typically suited to traditional software security methods, regardless of whether it involves...

The aspects of "intelligence" are not within the scope of this document.

[Source. GB/T 44062-2024, 3.3]

3.4 Big data

It contains large amounts of data that are characterized by their massive size, diverse sources, rapid and highly variable generation, and are difficult to process effectively using traditional data systems and institutions.

Data from a large dataset.

Note. Internationally, the four characteristics of big data are generally described directly and without embellishment as volume, variety, velocity, and variability, and are respectively assigned...

Their definitions in the context of big data.

a) Volume. The size of the dataset that constitutes big data;

b) Diversity. Data may come from multiple data warehouses, data domains, or multiple data types;

c) Velocity. the amount of data generated per unit of time;

d) Variability. Other characteristics of big data, such as volume, speed and diversity, are all in a state of flux.

[Source. GB/T 35295-2017, 2.1.1] […]