Issue 8042: Terminology Issue (uml2-rtf)
Source: Industrial Internet Consortium (Mr. Stephen J. Mellor, mellor(at)iiconsortium.org)
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Summary: When we build a state machine (nee State chart diagram) to define the behavior of a Dog, say, each dog instance has its own state.
 
In other words, each copy of the state machine diagram has it's own state.  What is the official term for each-copy-of-the-state-machine, the entity that has state. We need to be able to say "The <state machine thing> for Fido is in the state 'Barking'" and "The <state machine thing> for Rover is in the state Sleeping".

Resolution: Resolution: The submitter does not raise an issue against the specification, but asks a question for clarification. Such terminology might be useful in explaining the semantics, but is not required for the specification. Disposition: Closed, no change
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Actions taken:
December 30, 2004: received issue
October 27, 2008: closed issue
Discussion: 

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ubject: Yet another Issue, since today seems to be Issue Day. 
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:42:00 -0800 
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From: "Mellor, Stephen" <Stephen_Mellor@mentorg.com> 
To: "Juergen Boldt" <juergen@omg.org> 
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Juergen,
 
Terminology Issue: When we build a state machine (nee State chart diagram) to define the behavior of a Dog, say, each dog instance has its own state.
 
In other words, each copy of the state machine diagram has it's own state.  What is the official term for each-copy-of-the-state-machine, the entity that has state. We need to be able to say "The <state machine thing> for Fido is in the state 'Barking'" and "The <state machine thing> for Rover is in the state Sleeping".
 
 
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From: "Conrad Bock" <conrad.bock@nist.gov> 
To: "Mellor, Stephen" <Stephen_Mellor@mentorg.com>, 
   "Juergen Boldt" <juergen@omg.org> 
Subject: RE: Yet another Issue, since today seems to be Issue Day. 
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:42:39 -0500 
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 >"The <state machine thing> for Fido is in 
 > the state 'Barking'" and "The <state machine thing> for Rover is 
 > in the state Sleeping".


Usually we just say "Rover is in the the Sleeping state".  The intro
to Common Behavior uses the term "Behavior exectution", which can
be specialized to "state machine execution".  But it isn't the execution
that has the state, it's the instance.

Conrad