Re: PROV-ISSUE-147 (Replace recipe): Change the name if "Recipe" [Data Model]

Hi Satya,

You seem to indicate that an agent should be 'running', an instance of a 
process.
Where did we say that an agent should be like this?
We just defined agent as an entity capable of activity. I feel that my 
workflow script
in capable of activity.

Luc

On 11/07/2011 04:24 PM, Satya Sahoo wrote:
> Hi Luc,
> Comments on your example are interleaved
>
>
>     However, take an activity run by my email client. I would argue
>     that my email
>     client executable is a specification of an activity and is also a
>     plan.
>     In this specific case, what's the difference between a Plan and a
>     (Software) Agent?
>
>
> The code for the email client is a specification vs. email client 
> process corresponding to the distinction between a program (in memory 
> or on disk etc.) and a process (being actively executed).
>
> A program can have multiple processes, similar to the blueprint of a 
> welding robot, reconnaissance drone and actual robots, drones etc.
>
>     The same question also applies to a workflow script, controlling
>     an activity.  Is it an agent
>     or a plan?
>
>
> Workflow script is a "plan" or "recipe" or "specification" etc. and 
> not an agent.
>
> Best,
> Satya
>
>     Thanks,
>     Luc
>
>
>     On 11/07/2011 03:28 PM, Satya Sahoo wrote:
>>     +1 for replacing Recipe.
>>
>>     Plan is a nice alternative - should we make it Activity/Process
>>     Plan (corresponds to the Activity/Process Execution)?
>>
>>     Best,
>>     Satya
>>
>>     On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue
>>     Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org <mailto:sysbot%2Btracker@w3.org>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>
>>         PROV-ISSUE-147 (Replace recipe): Change the name if "Recipe"
>>         [Data Model]
>>
>>         http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/147
>>
>>         Raised by: James McCusker
>>         On product: Data Model
>>
>>         We chose Recipe to be explicitly clear about the use of a
>>         method or plan to guide a ProcessExecution. We should find a
>>         broader term that isn't as tied to the cake example. This is
>>         what I recommend. We start with the term "Recipe" and replace
>>         it with ever more general terms that are unambiguous. We then
>>         accept the broadest possible term that cannot be confused
>>         with an occurrent.
>>
>>         My first cut is "Plan". It's short, simple, and unambiguous.
>>         I think it's sufficiently general to cover the definition of
>>         "Recipe" without being confused with "Process".
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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