Re: PROV-ISSUE-2: proposal to vote on - process execution in the past

Hi James,

[...]

> But maybe I'm being overly pedantic.

I think bringing in MUST and SHOULD makes the definitions much more 
rigorous. Your definition has nicely implied a set of validation rules 
for provenance logs:)

But I am not sure whether this level of rigor should happen when we 
implement the model using semantics or now, when defining the concepts.

A question to the chairs and others:

How rigorous do we want to in concept definitions?

cheers,

Jun

>
> --James
>
> On Jun 14, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Simon Miles wrote:
>
>> +1 except for the caveat made in the last teleconference, e.g. I might
>> be modelling what I expect the provenance of something to be in 10
>> years time, in which case the execution is in the past of an imagined
>> future, not in the past from now.
>>
>> So I would qualify the definition to something like:
>>   "the start of a process execution is always in the past, from the
>> position of any assertion made about it."
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>> On 14 June 2011 11:48, Paul Groth<pgroth@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> In trying to move towards a definition of process execution, it
>>> would be
>>> good to get the groups consensus on the notion of process execution
>>> being in the past. Namely, the following is proposed from the last
>>> telecon:
>>>
>>> "A process execution has either completed (occurred in the past) or
>>> is
>>> occurring in present (partially complete). In other words, the
>>> start of
>>> a process execution is always in the past."
>>>
>>> Can you express by +1/-1/0 your support for this proposal via a
>>> response
>>> to this email message?
>>>
>>> The due date for responses is this Thursday before the telecon.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Dr Simon Miles
>> Lecturer, Department of Informatics
>> Kings College London, WC2R 2LS, UK
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