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Re: Question about OWL-S Split+Join

From: Jeff Dalton <jeff@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 23:19:47 +0100 (BST)
To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
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Quoting Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>:

> > [Jeff Dalton]
> 
> > Split+Join is described as follows in
> > 
> > http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/owl-s.html
> > 
> >   Here the process consists of concurrent execution of a bunch
> >   of process components with barrier synchronization. With SPLIT
> >   and SPLIT+JOIN, we can define processes that have partial
> >   synchronization (e.g., split all and join some sub-bag).
> ...

> This is a case of semantics outstripping syntax. ...

Does that mean there's no OWL-S syntax that corresponds to
the above semantics?

In the document about OWL-S surface syntax, it says

  (Split+Join List-of-processes) executes all the processes
  in the List-of-processes in parallel, then waits until
  all complete before proceeding.

Is that correct, or is there some thing more to it?

-- Jeff
Received on Sunday, 9 May 2004 18:20:23 GMT

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