Re: Comments of PROV-DM document (Section 2.1 and 3)

Hi Satya,

What you are describing here is various activities (which we represent 
as process execution expressions).
The notion of event introduced in the document is different. It should 
be understood as "a transition that
changes the state of the system".  Start of a PE and end of a PE are 
examples of such transitions/events.

You come to this discussion with a different meaning of event, and try 
to shoe horn it into the notion
of event in the model. It does not work.  The examples of what you 
describe as events should be mapped
to PEs.

We do not have a containment relationship for PEs.  Whether we want one 
is open to debate.

Luc

On 10/11/2011 11:39 PM, Satya Sahoo wrote:
> We briefly discussed the issue of ordering of events during the 
> PROV-O/M call yesterday and the example we discussed may be relevant - 
> an event "issuance of a traffic ticket to X" can be viewed as 
> instantaneous (total of traffic tickets issued per year in City A) or 
> stated to have a duration (10mins). Further, the event may contain 
> events as "ran the stop sign", "handed over license", "signed the 
> ticket" etc.
>
> We should be able to model all the above set of events in PROV.

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