Class: Process

A process is an entity that is identifiable only through the unfolding of time, has temporal parts, and unless otherwise specified/predicted, cannot be identified from any instant of time in which it exists.

URI: sio:Process

Parents

• is_a: Entity - Every thing is an entity.

Children

• Behaviour - Behaviour is the set of actions and mannerisms made by systems (biological or otherwise) in response to stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.
• Interacting - interacting is a process characterized by the interaction between two or more entities.
• Movement - movement is the process in which an object is spatially displaced.
• Procedure - A procedure is a process that attempts to achieve one or more objectives by following an established set of actions.

Referenced by Class

• Entity isAffectedBy _0..1 Process
• Entity isAgentIn _0..1 Process
• Entity isInputIn _0..1 Process
• Entity isOutputOf _0..1 Process
• Entity isParameterIn _0..1 Process
• Entity isParticipantIn _0..1 Process
• Entity isProductOf _0..1 Process
• Entity isRealizedIn _0..1 Process
• Entity isTargetIn _0..1 Process

Attributes

Own

• hasParticipant _0..1

  • Description: has participant is a relation that describes the participation of the object in the (processual) subject.

  • Range: Entity

Inherited from Entity:

• hasCreator _0..1
  • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
  • Range: Entity

• hasAttribute _0..1

  • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

  • Range: Entity

  • satisfies _0..1

  • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

  • Range: Description

  • isRelatedTo _0..1
  • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
  • Range: Entity