Re: PROV-ISSUE-147 (Replace recipe): Change the name if "Recipe" [Data Model]

On Nov 7, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Satya Sahoo wrote:

> Hi Luc,
> Comments on your example are interleaved
> 
> 
> However, take an activity run by my email client. I would argue that my email
> client executable is a specification of an activity and is also a plan.
> In this specific case, what's the difference between a Plan and a (Software) Agent?
> 
> 
> The code for the email client is a specification vs. email client process corresponding to the distinction between a program (in memory or on disk etc.) and a process (being actively executed).

So a plan would be "check inbox", "read email",  "write email", "check calendar", "check rss feed", etc?

> 
> A program can have multiple processes, similar to the blueprint of a welding robot, reconnaissance drone and actual robots, drones etc. 
>  
> The same question also applies to a workflow script, controlling an activity.  Is it an agent
> or a plan?
> 
> 
> Workflow script is a "plan" or "recipe" or "specification" etc. and not an agent.

Would the workflow engine would be the agent?

--Stephan

> 
> Best,
> Satya
>  
> Thanks,
> Luc
> 
> 
> On 11/07/2011 03:28 PM, Satya Sahoo wrote:
>> 
>> +1 for replacing Recipe.
>> 
>> Plan is a nice alternative - should we make it Activity/Process Plan (corresponds to the Activity/Process Execution)?
>> 
>> Best,
>> Satya
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
>> 
>> PROV-ISSUE-147 (Replace recipe): Change the name if "Recipe" [Data Model]
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>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/147
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>> Raised by: James McCusker
>> On product: Data Model
>> 
>> We chose Recipe to be explicitly clear about the use of a method or plan to guide a ProcessExecution. We should find a broader term that isn't as tied to the cake example. This is what I recommend. We start with the term "Recipe" and replace it with ever more general terms that are unambiguous. We then accept the broadest possible term that cannot be confused with an occurrent.
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>> My first cut is "Plan". It's short, simple, and unambiguous. I think it's sufficiently general to cover the definition of "Recipe" without being confused with "Process".
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