delegation
authorLuc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Thu, 24 May 2012 20:19:38 +0100
changeset 2963 1757d51cf33e
parent 2962 9c44f955c34b
child 2964 464d4e36f060
delegation
model/prov-dm.html
--- a/model/prov-dm.html	Thu May 24 20:14:08 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/prov-dm.html	Thu May 24 20:19:38 2012 +0100
@@ -481,14 +481,14 @@
 <tr>
 <td><a>Entity</a></td><td rowspan="3" style="text-align: center;">PROV-DM Types</td><td><a title="dfn-Entity">entity</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-entity-activity">2.1.1</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td><a>Activity</a></td><td><a title="dfn-Activity">activity</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-entity-activity">2.1.1</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td><a>Agent</a></td><td><a title="dfn-agent">agent</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a>Agent</a></td><td><a title="dfn-agent">agent</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-delegation">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
 <tr>
 <td><a>Generation</a></td><td rowspan="7" style="text-align: center;">PROV-DM Relations</td><td><a title="wasGeneratedBy">wasGeneratedBy</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-entity-activity">2.1.1</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td><a>Usage</a></td><td><a title="used">used</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-entity-activity">2.1.1</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td><a>Communication</a></td><td><a title="wasInformedBy">wasInformedBy</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-entity-activity">2.1.1</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td><a>Attribution</a></td><td><a title="wasAttributedTo">wasAttributedTo</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td><a>Association</a></td><td><a title="wasAssociatedWith">wasAssociatedWith</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td><a>Responsibility</a></td><td><a title="actedOnBehalfOf">actedOnBehalfOf</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a>Attribution</a></td><td><a title="wasAttributedTo">wasAttributedTo</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-delegation">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a>Association</a></td><td><a title="wasAssociatedWith">wasAssociatedWith</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-delegation">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><a>Responsibility</a></td><td><a title="actedOnBehalfOf">actedOnBehalfOf</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-delegation">2.1.2</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td><a>Derivation</a></td><td><a title="wasDerivedFrom">wasDerivedFrom</a></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="#section-derivation">2.1.3</a></td></tr>
 </table>
 </div>
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@
 </section>
 
 
-<section id="section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility"> 
+<section id="section-agents-attribution-association-delegation"> 
 <h2>Agents and Responsibility</h2>
 
 <p>The motivation for introducing  agents in the model is to express the agent's responsibility for activities that happened and entities that were generated. </p>
@@ -662,13 +662,6 @@
 <span class="glossary-ref" data-ref="glossary-delegation"  data-withspan="true">
 </span>
 
-<!--<div class="note">Propose to rephrase as follows: <br/>
-A relation between two agents, denoted <dfn title="concept-responsibilityChain">actedOnBehalfOf</dfn> indicates that 
- that a "subordinate" agent acted on behalf of a "responsible" agent, in the context of an activity.  The nature of this relation is intended to be broad,  including delegation or a contractual relation.
-  When this relation is used transitively, i.e., one agent acts on behalf of another, who also acts on behalf of another, etc., these relations form a  <dfn title="concept-responsibilityChain">responsibility chain</dfn>.
-</div>-->
-  
-
 
 
 
@@ -745,7 +738,7 @@
 
 <p>To illustrate expanded relations, we consider the concept of
 association, described
-in <a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility">section
+in <a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-delegation">section
 2.1.2</a>.  Agents may adopt sets of actions or steps to achieve their
 goals in the context of an activity: this is captured by the notion of
 a plan.  Thus, an activity may reflect the execution of a plan that was
@@ -865,7 +858,7 @@
 <caption id="components-overview">Table 3: Components Overview</caption>
 <tr><td></td><td>Component</td><td>Core <br>Structures</td><td>Overview</td><td>Specification</td><td>Description</td></tr> 
 <tr><td style="	padding: 8px;">1</td><td style="text-align: left;">Entities and Activities</td><td>&#10004;</td><td><a href="#section-entity-activity">2.1.1</a></td><td><a href="#component1">5.1</a></td><td  style="text-align: left;">about entities and activities, and their interrelations</td></tr> 
-<tr><td>2</td><td style="text-align: left;">Agent and Responsibility</td><td>&#10004;</td><td><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-responsibility">2.1.2</a></td><td><a href="#component2">5.2</a></td><td style="text-align: left;">about agents and concepts ascribing responsibility to them</td></tr> 
+<tr><td>2</td><td style="text-align: left;">Agent and Responsibility</td><td>&#10004;</td><td><a href="#section-agents-attribution-association-delegation">2.1.2</a></td><td><a href="#component2">5.2</a></td><td style="text-align: left;">about agents and concepts ascribing responsibility to them</td></tr> 
 <tr><td>3</td><td style="text-align: left;">Derivation</td><td>&#10004;</td><td><a href="#section-derivation">2.1.3</a></td><td><a href="#component3">5.3</a></td><td  style="text-align: left;">about derivations and its subtypes</td></tr> 
 <tr><td>4</td><td style="text-align: left;">Alternate</td><td></td><td>&mdash;</td><td><a href="#component4">5.4</a></td><td  style="text-align: left;">about relations linking entities referring the same thing</td></tr> 
 <tr><td>5</td><td style="text-align: left;">Bundles</td><td></td><td><a href="#section-provenance-of-provnance">2.2.2</a></td><td><a href="#component5">5.5</a></td><td style="text-align: left;">about bundles, a mechanism to support provenance of provenance</td></tr> 
@@ -1863,15 +1856,15 @@
 
 
 <p>
-<div class="attributes" id="attributes-responsibility">
-A <dfn title="actedOnBehalfOf">responsibility</dfn> link<span class="withPn">, written <span class="pnExpression">actedOnBehalfOf(id;ag2,ag1,a,attrs)</span> in PROV-N,</span> has:
+<div class="attributes" id="attributes-delegation">
+A <dfn title="actedOnBehalfOf">delegation</dfn> link<span class="withPn">, written <span class="pnExpression">actedOnBehalfOf(id;ag2,ag1,a,attrs)</span> in PROV-N,</span> has:
 <ul>
-<li><span class='attribute' id="responsibility.id">id</span>:  an OPTIONAL identifier for the responsibility link between subordinate and responsible;</li> 
-<li><span class='attribute' id="responsibility.subordinate">subordinate</span>: an identifier (<span class="name">ag2</span>) for the agent associated with an activity, acting on behalf of the responsible
+<li><span class='attribute' id="delegation.id">id</span>:  an OPTIONAL identifier for the responsibility link between subordinate and responsible;</li> 
+<li><span class='attribute' id="delegation.subordinate">subordinate</span>: an identifier (<span class="name">ag2</span>) for the agent associated with an activity, acting on behalf of the responsible
 agent;</li>
-<li><span class='attribute' id="responsibility.responsible">responsible</span>: an identifier (<span class="name">ag1</span>) for the agent,  on behalf of which the subordinate agent acted;</li>
-<li><span class='attribute' id="responsibility.activity">activity</span>: an OPTIONAL identifier (<span class="name">a</span>) of an activity for which the responsibility link holds;</li>
-<li><span class='attribute' id="responsibility.attributes">attributes</span>: an OPTIONAL set (<span class="name">attrs</span>) of attribute-value pairs representing additional information about this responsibility link.</li>
+<li><span class='attribute' id="delegation.responsible">responsible</span>: an identifier (<span class="name">ag1</span>) for the agent,  on behalf of which the subordinate agent acted;</li>
+<li><span class='attribute' id="delegation.activity">activity</span>: an OPTIONAL identifier (<span class="name">a</span>) of an activity for which the delegation link holds;</li>
+<li><span class='attribute' id="delegation.attributes">attributes</span>: an OPTIONAL set (<span class="name">attrs</span>) of attribute-value pairs representing additional information about this delegation link.</li>
 </ul></div>