Re: How to handle processes that must occur

> [Craig Schlenoff]
> 
> I have a process in my OWL-S representation that must occur. However, it has
> a condition associated with it. Somehow I want to tell the system to wait
> until the condition is true so that the process will occur. The process is
> in a sequence list, and I am afraid that an implementation of the OWL-S
> specification will skip to the next step in the sequence if the condition is
> not met at that point in the execution, which is not what I want to occur.
> 
> One way to do this is to create a composite process that contains a
> repeat-until ControlConstruct which states that the systems should perform a
> "wait" activity until the condition is met and then it can perform the
> desired process. This seems clumsy. Is there a better way to do it?

Request for clarification: What is the condition and what resources
must the agent (process executor) expend in order to verify that the
condition is true?

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                                   -- Drew McDermott
                                      Yale Computer Science Department

Received on Monday, 19 April 2004 16:38:12 UTC