# Acumos

## Acumos Introduction

>Acumos AI is a platform and open source framework that makes it easy to build, share, and deploy AI apps (acumos.org). Acumos was created to enable the packaging, cataloging, and sharing of AI models.

## Why use acumos?
>With Acumos, End Users from any background can use AI without special knowledge on AI. In acumos, AI models like a blackbox that can use for everyone to process data that they have.

## How Acumos Work?
>In simple Term, we can define acumos like figure below.
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>ref : http://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07159
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>In another term, We can define How acumos work like figure below
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>ref:https://www.w3.org/2018/Talks/web5g/W3C_Web5G_DanD.pdf
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>The first, contributor can contribute a model to acumos (We can create a model from a specific datasets, example : face datasets, diabetes datasets, etc). Then Contributor will put model in acumos marketplace.
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>>Picture : Acumos marketplace
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>In this marketplace, we can see catalog of AI model and we can choose the model that we want to use to our AI. In addition, we can give rate and review to the models.
>To use the model, we can dockerize the model into docker image.
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## Acumos Installation
https://wiki.acumos.org/display/AC/Acumos+Installation

> *note : Installation in progress. step-by-step of installation will be updated as soon as possible.*