Re: PROV-ISSUE-122: Constraint on wasGeneratedBy (PROV-DM and PROV-OM) [Conceptual Model]

Hi Satya,
I don't see the issue here. Can you clarify?
Thanks,
Luc

On 11/10/11 14:40, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 00:26, Satya Sahoo<satya.sahoo@case.edu>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi Paul,
>> Sorry about the mixup!
>> Constraint on wasGeneratedBy property (in PROV-DM document on Oct 10, 2011):
>> "If an assertion wasGeneratedBy(x,pe,q) or wasGeneratedBy(x,pe,q,t), then
>> generation of the thing denoted by x precedes the end of pe and follows the
>> beginning of pe."
>>
>> Issue: An entity e may be generated before the end of pe, for example
>> a manufacturing PE can generate multiple entities before terminating.
>>      
> That's exactly what the constraint allows. The entity generated by PE
> can't be generated *before* the PE started  ("generation follows
> beginning of pe") , nor *after* the PE ended  ("generation precedes
> the end of pe").  I think the problem is just that the constraint is
> quite hard to read because it takes the positive approach instead.
>
>
>    

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