Re: [OWL-S]: proposal to collapse ProcessModel and Process

This has my vote as well!

I've attached a diagram that illustrates how processes, profiles and 
services are connected, and it is a bit of a tangled web...

	Terry

On 13 Jun 2004, at 16:57, Drew McDermott wrote:

>
>
>> [David Martin]
>>
>> I'd like to collapse ProcessModel and Process, in Process.owl.  I 
>> doubt
>> if anyone will object to this, in principle, but I think it should be
>> mentioned "for the record".  It has been discussed, now and then, in 
>> the
>> past.
>>
>> ProcessModel has always been a simple class which points to a Process
>> and also to a "process control model".  Of course, ProcessControlModel
>> is just a placeholder; no one has ever done any work on it (that is, 
>> not
>> in the context of OWL-S).  (But note that I think there's some 
>> important
>> work to be done in this area; it's just that it's not a near-term 
>> priority.)
>
> I never understood what a process-control model was supposed to be, so
> I agree with your proposal.
>
>                                              -- Drew
>
>
> -- 
>                                    -- Drew McDermott
>                                       Yale Computer Science Department
>
>

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