Re: PROV-ISSUE-243 (TLebo): how to interpret ASN assertions with incomplete arity?

agreed (this is in fact what commonly happens in languages where you cannot have the same term appear with different arities)

-Paolo


  On 2/6/12 9:52 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-243 (TLebo): how to interpret ASN assertions with incomplete arity?
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/243
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> Raised by: Timothy Lebo
> On product:
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> wasGeneratedBy is defined as arity 5.
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> The DM asserts in a rule (I've changed the variables):
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> wasGeneratedBy(a,b,c)
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> is c a(n) 1) Activity 2) Time 3) attribute-values?
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> The answer is intended to be 3), but it is clearly ambiguous without context.
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> I propose to include parameter omissions explicitly in ASN statements:
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> wasGeneratedBy(a,b,[],[],c)
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> Thanks,
> Tim
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Received on Monday, 6 February 2012 23:24:12 UTC