ISSUE-69: Process execution occurs over a "continuous time interval"?

Process Execution

Process execution occurs over a "continuous time interval"?

State:
CLOSED
Product:
prov-dm
Raised by:
Satya Sahoo
Opened on:
2011-08-04
Description:
The current description of process execution:
"The activity that a process execution represents has a duration, delimited by its start and its end; hence, it occurs over a continuous time interval."

What if the process execution was started (at t1), paused (at t2), and restarted (at t3) terminated (at t4), then its duration is t1-t2 and t3-t4 which is not a continuous time interval.

I propose that we should remove "continuous" from the above description.

Best,
Satya
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  1. Re: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-30)
  2. Re: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-09-23)
  3. Re: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-08-22)
  4. Re: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from satya.sahoo@case.edu on 2011-08-05)
  5. RE: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from MYERSJ4@rpi.edu on 2011-08-05)
  6. Re: PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-08-05)
  7. PROV-ISSUE-69 (Process Execution): Process execution occurs over a 'continuous time interval'? [Conceptual Model] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-08-04)

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