- From: Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:43:44 +0100
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi Paolo, On 25/09/2012 15:11, Paolo Missier wrote: > The definition is indeed vague to the point that making two entities > alternates seems arbitrary. > To me this means that one can always assert the equivalence amongst > two entities if *you* think they are aspects of the same thing, just > like one can assert owl:sameAs, and then live with the consequences. +1 > For instance > a alternateOf b > b alternateOf c > a specializationOf c > would not be consistent if you do the reasoning. > why? Luc > --Paolo > > > > On 9/25/12 8:15 AM, Luc Moreau wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Can someone make suggestions regarding "how to determine when two >> entities are considered alternates of each other, or when they are not". >> >> Our definition states "Two alternate ◊ entities present aspects of >> the same thing. These aspects may be the same or different, and the >> alternate entities may or may not overlap in time." >> >> >> Thanks, >> Luc >> >> On 10/09/12 09:51, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >>> PROV-ISSUE-526: Data Model Section 5.5.2 [prov-dm] >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/526 >>> >>> Raised by: Luc Moreau >>> On product: prov-dm >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/LC_Feedback#Data_Model_Section_5.5.2 >>> >>> ISSUE-463 >>> >>> It is not clear how to determine when two entities are considered >>> alternates of each other, or when they are not. Please add more >>> explanation, as this will be important for computational reasoning >>> over provenance information. >>> >>> Through the definition of Influence (figure 8), the relationship >>> "alternateOf" should require an ID and support an optional list of >>> attributes. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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