Analysis of Candidate PSL Process Plan Representations

This paper is a summary of analysis work completed during phase of the National Institute of Standards and Technology s NIST Process Speci cation Language PSL project A set of requirements for this language was produced in phase These requirements were divided into separate categories The main categories of interest for this analysis are the core and outer core requirements Each set was then further partitioned into either representational or functional requirements In phase existing candidate process representations were proposed which were believed to satisfy much of the representational and functional needs Most of the particular set of candidates reviewed are those representations generated by participants in the DARPA Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative ARPI or representations in which participants in the initiative played a part The results of the analyses of a number of the candidate representations with respect to the requirements are reviewed here With contributions from PSL working group members which are speci cally credited in the paper where provided