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Label: process

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p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])

Editor note:

BFO 2 Reference: The realm of occurrents is less pervasively marked by the presence of natural units than is the case in the realm of independent continuants. Thus there is here no counterpart of ‘object’. In BFO 1.0 ‘process’ served as such a counterpart. In BFO 2.0 ‘process’ is, rather, the occurrent counterpart of ‘material entity’. Those natural – as contrasted with engineered, which here means: deliberately executed – units which do exist in the realm of occurrents are typically either parasitic on the existence of natural units on the continuant side, or they are fiat in nature. Thus we can count lives; we can count football games; we can count chemical reactions performed in experiments or in chemical manufacturing. We cannot count the processes taking place, for instance, in an episode of insect mating behavior.Even where natural units are identifiable, for example cycles in a cyclical process such as the beating of a heart or an organism’s sleep/wake cycle, the processes in question form a sequence with no discontinuities (temporal gaps) of the sort that we find for instance where billiard balls or zebrafish or planets are separated by clear spatial gaps. Lives of organisms are process units, but they too unfold in a continuous series from other, prior processes such as fertilization, and they unfold in turn in continuous series of post-life processes such as post-mortem decay. Clear examples of boundaries of processes are almost always of the fiat sort (midnight, a time of death as declared in an operating theater or on a death certificate, the initiation of a state of war)

Sub classes:

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Adsorption is a process that leads to an accumulation of a substance within a phase or at an interface between two phases.

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Carbon capture is a process that captures carbon dioxide from a gas. test

carbon capture and storage

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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process that combines carbon capture and carbon sequestration.

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Carbon storage is a process that stores CO2 in a geological formation.

climate neutral process

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A climate neutral process is a process that has a process climate neutrality attribute.

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Consumption is the process of using something and thereby reducing its amount.

cooperative programming

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Cooperative programming is the process of two or more people working on program code together at the same time (according to a specified routine).

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Curtailment is a process in which a power generating unit is forced to reduce its output, in order to balance energy supply and demand or due to transmission constraints.

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A process of becoming smaller, less numerous, less important, or less likely.

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Desorption is a process that leads to a detaching of a substance that was accumulated within a phase or at an interface between two phases (for example by adsorption).

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Distribution is the process of delivering goods and services to agents. ETst

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emission is a process releasing by-products from human activity (e.g. production, distribution or consumption) into the environment.

energy balancing

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Energy balancing is a process that levels out energy supply and demand for system stability.

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Export is the process of selling goods or services abroad and their delivery to a foreign market.

frequency control

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Frequency control is a process that regulates the electricity output of an artificial object to maintain the equilibrium between electricity supply and demand.

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Import is the process of purchasing goods or services abroad and their delivery to the domestic market.

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A process of becoming larger, more numerous, more important, or more likely.

industrial process

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An industrial process is a process that has output object or object aggregates that are economic goods. An industrial process consists of several subprocesses. Examples of subprocesses that can be involved in an industrial process are energy transformations, mechanical operations and chemical reactions.

model calculation

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A model calculation is a process of solving mathematical equations of a model.

model calibration

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Model calibration is a process of varying exogenous data, so that the model reproduces the known data (e.g. historical) as far as possible, and thus a part of validation.

negative emission

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Negative emission is the process of absorbing a substance, usually a pollutant that was emitted before.

nuclear fission

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Nuclear fission is a process of nuclear reaction or a radioactive decay in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei.

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An outage is a process during which an artificial object cannot perform or operate.

parameterisation

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Parameterisation is the process of translating assumptions into exogenous data the model can use.

phase transition

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A phase transition is a transformation of a medium from a solid, liquid, or gas state to a different state.

process profile

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b is a process_profile =Def. there is some process c such that b process_profile_of c (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [093-002])

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A project is a process to achieve a specified goal that is unique in the sum of its conditions like its goal, time and cost budget and its organisation.

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A request is a process whereby an agent asks another agent for something or to do something.

scenario projection

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A scenario projection is an intentional process in which output (endogenous) data of interest are quantified for future points in time using one or more model calculation based on a scenario.

Editor note:

A scenario projection is an intentional process (with human participation): A scenario is either created or selected, its assumptions are translated into data sets. These datasets are quantified and serve as inputs to a model calculation which is applied to quantitatively project one or more variables of interest into the future. (Intentional: a research question is basis for the projection to be done)

sensitivity analysis

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A sensitivity analysis is the process of comparing different model calculations based on a variation of input parameters (exogenous data items).

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A service is a process that is an intangible activity performed by some agent for the benefit of another agent.

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Solar tracking is a process in which a radiation receiving surface is following the path of the sun on the sky.

sustainable process

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A sustainable process is a process that has a process sustainability attribute.

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Traction is a process of pushing or pulling to drive an object.

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A trade is a process in which one good or service is exchanged for another good or service or money.

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A transformation is a process that transforms one or more inputs into at least one output.

transformative measure

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A transformative measure is a process that is an activity that has a direct impact on a specific variable in question.

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Transport is the process of moving people or goods from one place to another.

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Validation is the process of checking if something works correctly.

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Water flow is a process of liquid water moving.

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Wind is a process of air naturally moving.

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Editor note:

BFO 2 Reference: every occurrent that is not a temporal or spatiotemporal region is s-dependent on some independent continuant that is not a spatial region

Editor note:

BFO 2 Reference: s-dependence obtains between every process and its participants in the sense that, as a matter of necessity, this process could not have existed unless these or those participants existed also. A process may have a succession of participants at different phases of its unfolding. Thus there may be different players on the field at different times during the course of a football game; but the process which is the entire game s-depends_on all of these players nonetheless. Some temporal parts of this process will s-depend_on on only some of the players.

Editor note:

Occurrent doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't necessarily exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the sum of a process and the process boundary of another process.

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Simons uses different terminology for relations of occurrents to regions: Denote the spatio-temporal location of a given occurrent e by 'spn[e]' and call this region its span. We may say an occurrent is at its span, in any larger region, and covers any smaller region. Now suppose we have fixed a frame of reference so that we can speak not merely of spatio-temporal but also of spatial regions (places) and temporal regions (times). The spread of an occurrent, (relative to a frame of reference) is the space it exactly occupies, and its spell is likewise the time it exactly occupies. We write 'spr[e]' and `spl[e]' respectively for the spread and spell of e, omitting mention of the frame.