- From: Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:07:24 -0700
- To: Khalid Belhajjame <Khalid.Belhajjame@cs.man.ac.uk>
- CC: "public-prov-wg@w3.org" <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
yes, I guess so, in the sense of events -> state transitions. Not sure this captures everything though: "Alice forwarding an online post." is an observable event, but does it map to a state change? in a natural way? or does that view force you to think of the world in terms of state machines :-) Cheers, -Paolo On 6/7/11 11:32 AM, Khalid Belhajjame wrote: > Hi Paolo > >> it's a good start, in that it subsumes observing value of data, and >> therefore the state of a database, for example. >> But we also need to observe /events/, don't we. For example, data that >> moves along a communication channel that connects two processors. >> Someone forwarding an online post. Or responding to the post. > I was wondering if, instead, 'events' can be seen as a means for > observing (or monitoring) changes, in particular changes in state. > Would that be fair? > > khalid
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