Modelling Services, including ServiceProcess, ServiceProfile

SAREF4EHAW extends the definition of saref:Service with ServiceProcess and ServiceProfile

• ServiceProcess: "How the service works."@en
  • OP s4ehaw:isDescribedBy links a Service to the ServiceProcess: "A service is described by a service process (how the service works)."@en
• ServiceProfile: "A service presents a service profile (what the service does)."@en
  • OP s4ehaw:presents "A service presents a service profile (what the service does)."@en

General remarks:

• Why an intermediate class ? why not attaching these properties directly to the Service ?
• the Service actually groups operations. Operations are executed. Not the service

Proposed change: Attach whatever is attached to these intermediate classes to the service directly, unless there a service may have more than one process / more than one profile, etc.

In details:

ServiceProcess

Related:

• hasCalculationMethod rdfs:comment "The service process has a calculation method to get the output or result, e.g. the calculation formula to determine the posture of a patient."@en
• hasEffect rdfs:comment "The effect of a service can be an alert, nothing, an activation of another process..."@en
• hasInput rdfs:comment "The service process has data input like e.g. the patient ID, the timestamp, the read value from a sensor..."@en
• hasOutput rdfs:comment "The output is e.g. the calculated value returned by the process, e.g the posture of a patient."@en
• hasResult rdfs:comment "The process can have many results for the same output. Those results may include a message that should be displayed, an alert..."@en
• hasPrecondition rdfs:comment "The conditions that are imposed over the inputs of the process and the process must hold to be successufully invoked."@en

Notes:

• Why just "the posture" ?
• SAREF already introduces hasInput, hasOutput, hasResult. hasEffect and hasPrecondition could be re-defined to be applicable along saref:hasInput / saref:hasOutput

ServiceProfile

• DP serviceDescription domain ServiceProfile, range xsd:string
• DP serviceName domain ServicePRofile, range xsd:string

Proposed change:

Reuse standard rdfs:label, rdfs:comment, dct:description