- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:00:28 +0000
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi Reza, The latest WD now includes SoftwareAgent, People, and Institutions as subclasses of Agent. I believe this addresses your issue. I am closing this issue, pending review. Best regards, Luc On 10/24/2011 12:04 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > PROV-ISSUE-134: Non-Human Agent vs. Human Agent [Data Model] > > http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/134 > > Raised by: Reza B'Far > On product: Data Model > > I propose to revisit the previously discussed, but not concluded, topic of "Types" of Agents. I had brought up this topic and the following was suggested as a reference - > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/trdf/nfs/project/t/tr/trdf/7/7a/ProvenanceVocabularyOverview.png > > There are a large set of use-cases (not just in my particular interest of Governance) where, whether the actions of an agent are directly controlled by a human being versus an automated mechanism makes a very significant difference in inferencing over the available instance data. Examples: > > 1. Human agent modifying a legal document versus the legal document being modified by a system agent that converts data formats. > 2. Human agent modifying a setting in a system whose provenance model is important for governing that system versus a system agent doing the same: Example - Provenance of a "License" where Human agent expiring a license by changing/enforcing a date is quite a different event than a system agent changing/enforcing a date (say as a part of a mass/cascade update to a series of records) that causes expiration of a license. > > Other use-cases are available if need-be. I actually claim that the number of such use-cases are increasing given the proliferation of pipe-and-filter architectures being deployed within Big Data infrastructures (where either pipes or filters can be Non-Human Agent/Actors). Furthermore, as another evidence, there are other references to UML Use-Case and Sequence Diagrams where the distinction is becoming prevalent. > > As a solution, I suggest we take the same approach that the aforementioned URL above has taken. > > > > -- Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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