Re: PROV-ISSUE-188: Section 5.2.3 (PROV-DM as on Nov 28) [prov-dm]

Hi Satya,

Of course we can talk about routers. But have had a use case, discussed by this wg and including routers?

Professor Luc Moreau
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

On 12 Feb 2012, at 22:53, "Satya Sahoo" <satya.sahoo@case.edu<mailto:satya.sahoo@case.edu>> wrote:

Hi Luc,
Nonhuman agent would imply other non software agents too.  It does not capture the intent.
Is the intent to model only software agents?

Software is particular relevant for the web. I don't see the problem with it. What use case do you want to support Satya?
>From my original mail on Dec 07, 2011:

>Comment: Why should the WG model only these three types of agents explicitly. What about >biological agents (e.g E.coli responsible for mass food poisoning), "hardware" agents (e.g. >reconnaissance drones, industrial robots in car assembly line)? The WG should either enumerate all >possible agent sub-types (an impractical approach) or just model Agent only without any sub-types. >The WG does not explicitly model all possible sub-types of Activity - why should a different approach >be adopted for Agent?

"hardware" is equally relevant "for the web" (e.g. "router").

Best,
Satya

I had the feeling that we had reached agreement two months ago on this matter, and I don't see any new evidence to reopen the debate,

Ultimately we have to be pragmatic and move on.

Professor Luc Moreau
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

On 12 Feb 2012, at 20:23, "Satya Sahoo" <satya.sahoo@case.edu<mailto:satya.sahoo@case.edu>> wrote:

Hi all,
I agree with Olaf's suggestion - its effectively captures our intent.

Thanks.

Best,
Satya

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Paul Groth <p.t.groth@vu.nl<mailto:p.t.groth@vu.nl>> wrote:
Hi Olaf,

That seems reasonable to me. I wonder what the group thinks.

cheers,
Paul

Olaf Hartig wrote:

Paul Groth<p.t.groth@vu.nl<mailto:p.t.groth@vu.nl>>  wrote:


Hi Satya,

What's a good name for the class of both hardware + software
agent?

In the Provenance Vocabulary we use the term NonHumanActor; so, maybe
"non-human agent" for PROV?

Cheers, Olaf

The key issue is that we need to distinguish between People and
Software so I this should be kept in the model.

Thanks, Paul



Satya Sahoo wrote:
Hi Luc, My suggestion is to: a) Either remove software agent or
include hardware agent (since both occur together). b) State the
agent subtypes as only examples and not include them as part of
"core" DM.

Except the above two points, I am fine with closing of this
issue.

Thanks.

Best, Satya


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Luc
Moreau<L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
<mailto:L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>>  wrote:

Hi Satya, Paul, Graham,

I am proposing not to take any action on this issue, except
indicate, as Graham suggested, that these 3 agent types "are
common across most anticipated
domains
of use".

I am closing this action, pending review. Regards, Luc



On 12/07/2011 01:58 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker
wrote:
PROV-ISSUE-188: Section 5.2.3 (PROV-DM as on Nov 28)
[prov-dm]
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/__track/issues/188
<http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/188>

Raised by: Satya Sahoo On product: prov-dm

Hi, The following are my comments for Section 5.2.3 of the
PROV-DM
as on Nov 28:

Section 5.2.3: 1. "From an inter-operability perspective, it is
useful to define some basic categories of agents since it will
improve
the
use of provenance records by applications. There should be
very
few of these basic categories to keep the model simple and
accessible. There are three types of agents in the model: *
Person: agents of type Person are people. (This type is
equivalent to a "foaf:person" [FOAF]) * Organization: agents of
type Organization are social institutions such as companies,
societies etc. (This type is equivalent to a "foaf:organization"
[FOAF]) * SoftwareAgent: a software agent is a piece of
software." Comment: Why should the WG model only these three
types of agents explicitly. What about biological agents (e.g
E.coli responsible for mass food poisoning), "hardware" agents
(e.g. reconnaissance drones, industrial robots in car assembly
line)?
The WG should either enumerate all possible agent sub-types
(an
impractical approach) or just model Agent only without any
sub-types. The WG does not explicitly model all possible
sub-types of Activity - why should a different approach be
adopted for Agent?

Thanks.

Best, Satya





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