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Glossary

One-line definitions so the rest of the site can stay terse.

Personas and organisations

Term Meaning
PSP Principal Submitting Person — the external applicant who compiles and submits applications and responds to queries.
CMU Silicon Island's local authority (the operator of SISS).
CMU Officer Internal coordinator / administrator within CMU.
ATD / ATL Technical agencies or departments that review submissions against their own standards. The CSV calls this group "Internal/External Technical Agencies".
SIRP Silicon Island Review Panel — reviews submissions against the local plan / masterplan / UDP.
OSC One Stop Centre — the approval body that CMU compiles information for.
Auditor External read-only role for inspecting logs and decisions.

Submission artifacts

Term Meaning
Kertas Perakuan Consolidated approval document assembled from department outcomes. Digitally signed by multiple signatories.
SIGL Compliance certificate issued after planning checks pass.
Surat Sokongan Letter of support / endorsement produced during the review cycle.
Borang Malaysian standard application forms attached to submissions (e.g., Borang A, Borang B).
LCP Layout / Construction Plan — the principal planning document in a submission.
UDP Urban Development Plan — masterplan reference used for zoning checks.
KM The core planning submission workflow — what M2 delivers end-to-end.

Technical terms

Term Meaning
HITL Human-in-the-loop — AI proposes, a human decides. No auto-approval anywhere in SISS.
PAdES PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures — the signature format used for all issued certificates. Verifiable in standard PDF readers.
RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation — LLM calls enriched with relevant documents retrieved from a vector store (SIRP rule corpus, comment library, prior cases).
IFC Industry Foundation Classes — the open BIM file format SISS consumes.
XKT The xeokit tile format used by the in-browser BIM viewer.
SLO Service Level Objective — target for availability or latency the system must meet.
SLA Service Level Agreement — contractual turnaround time for a review step.
RBAC Role-Based Access Control — permissions granted via roles, scoped by tenant / department.
RLS Row-Level Security — AlloyDB feature enforcing tenant / department scoping at query time.
CMEK Customer-Managed Encryption Keys — encryption keys held in customer-owned KMS.
TSA Timestamping Authority — RFC 3161 service that timestamps signatures.
Temporal The workflow engine that owns every long-running state machine in SISS.
Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub — the event bus connecting services.
xeokit Open-source in-browser BIM viewer used in the SPA.