Re: Conditional in DAML-S

Hi Charlie,

charlie@semantech.org wrote:

>Hi,
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>Is it possible, in the process model, to describe a service who's 
>output/effects are conditioned by a conditional statement? That is, given a 
>certain value for that condition an outputs/effect A is produced while given 
>another value, an output/effect B is produced.
>I know that there is the if-then-else construct but it is used in case the 
>condition regards a choice between two processcomponeents and not 
>outputs/effets.
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Yes you can. This is possible , since conditions will always be logical 
formulae evaluating to true or false and the outputs can then be 
specified as "disjointUnionOf". If you visit the first few mails of the 
thread titled "Conditionals revisted" exchanged between myself, Sheila 
and Bijan you would probably get an elaborate answer

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Cheers,

Monika
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Received on Thursday, 11 September 2003 14:12:39 UTC