Re: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a "continuous time interval"? [Conceptual Model]

Hi Satya,

It's  the same problem as entities.

Luc is Boston (an entity)  or Travelling to Boston (a process execution) 
can occur twice, let's
say in May and in June.

How can you explain that the second occurrence was caused by the first?  
They need to be
distinct, hence continuous intervals.

How do you model your use case?  By two separate process executions.

Luc

On 08/04/2011 01:01 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a "continuous time interval"? [Conceptual Model]
>
> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/69
>
> Raised by: Satya Sahoo
> On product: Conceptual Model
>
> The current description of process execution:
> "The activity that a process execution represents has a duration, delimited by its start and its end; hence, it occurs over a continuous time interval."
>
> What if the process execution was started (at t1), paused (at t2), and restarted (at t3) terminated (at t4), then its duration is t1-t2 and t3-t4 which is not a continuous time interval.
>
> I propose that we should remove "continuous" from the above description.
>
> Best,
> Satya
>
>
>
>    

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